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Many of the year’s winners reference the lack of meaning and certainty in our online interactions. Mininyx Doodle/iStock via Getty Images

2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment

From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.
A fan walks past posters of Taylor Swift ahead of the official release of Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” at the AMC Metreon in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Taylor Swift and the performative ambiguity of The Life of a Showgirl

The pop icon’s new album marks a growing debate about the social tensions between feminism and rising conservatism.

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