{"id":9019,"date":"2025-12-14T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/these-are-the-cultural-moments-that-defined-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:08:36","slug":"these-are-the-cultural-moments-that-defined-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/these-are-the-cultural-moments-that-defined-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the cultural moments that defined 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2025-12\/251212-2025-david-ellison-jg-abb615.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-11f609\" class=\"body-graf\">The year 2025 has been filled with cultural absurdities. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6a446f\" class=\"body-graf\">Toothy plush dolls became one of the hottest and most elusive collectibles. A fiery feud between two rappers boiled over at the Super Bowl. And a viral cheating scandal between a boss and his employee became the biggest meme of the year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-49bc93\" class=\"body-graf\">Here\u2019s a full look at NBC News\u2019 list of the biggest cultural moments of 2025.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"anchor-7ef1d0\" class=\"body-heading\"><strong>Winter<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"anchor-23e4b9\" class=\"body-heading\"><strong>The TikTok ban that never actually happened <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p id=\"anchor-33d1c2\" class=\"body-graf\">After months of anticipation for the day U.S. users would lose access to TikTok, a nationwide ban of the app \u2014 which was supposed to take effect in January \u2014 puttered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/2025-top-cultural-moments-rcna245053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2025 has been filled with cultural absurdities. Toothy plush dolls became one of the hottest and most elusive collectibles. A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}