Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year Is… https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/

Collins English Dictionary chooses 'vibe coding' 2025 word of the year https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/collins-english-dictionary-chooses-vibe-coding-2025-word-of-the-year/3736802

‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/

Vibe coding startup Replit is projecting $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026 https://www.businessinsider.com/replit-projects-1-billion-revenue-by-2027-ai-coding-boom-2025-10

AI start-up Lovable receives funding offers at $4bn valuation https://www.ft.com/content/a97dd70c-e6ba-41b1-909d-90436a41d5f2

Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-maker-anysphere-considers-investment-offers-30-billion-valuation?rc=gdi3uj

BRANDS AFTER VIBES https://nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/brand-after-vibes

IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/irl-brain-rot-and-the-lure-of-the-labubu

Everything Is Television https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television

The Rise of the One-Day Overseas Vacation https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/travel-trends-vacation-kevin-droniak-instagram-reels.html

You Have 0 Friends https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/1hc2pe/south-park-you-have-0-friends-season-14-ep-4

The Great Friendship Flattening https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/10/social-media-relationships-parasocial/684551/

Are we caught in a culture of never-ending catch-ups? https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68983/1/so-excited-to-catch-up-culture-friendship-recaps-friends

Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451

Americans Need to Party More https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/

Teens have less face time with their friends – and are lonelier than ever https://theconversation.com/teens-have-less-face-time-with-their-friends-and-are-lonelier-than-ever-113240

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss/

The internet wants to be fragmented https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented-6b5

Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules https://www.ft.com/cms/50111113-8816-4f2d-8ec4-ee59a2eeecc5.html

AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/27/ai-startup-friend-spent-more-than-1m-on-all-those-subway-ads/