Every year, Google pulls back the curtain on what the world obsessed over, and in 2025, Americans were Googling a chaotic mix of politics, disasters, AI trends, weird food, and Gen Z chaos. 😅💻🔥
Here’s the breakdown of what the U.S. searched the MOST this year:
🔟 Top 10 Searches Overall
America went down some rabbit holes this year, with the top searches being:
1️⃣ Charlie Kirk
2️⃣ KPop Demon Hunters
3️⃣ Labubu toys
4️⃣ iPhone 17 📱
5️⃣ The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”
6️⃣ Zohran Mamdani
7️⃣ DeepSeek (AI takeover energy 🤖)
8️⃣ Government shutdown
9️⃣ FIFA Club World Cup
⚽🔟 Tariffs
A real mix of “what is happening?” and “why is this happening?” 😭
🗞️ Top News Searches
We also googled:
🔥 Los Angeles fires
🌪️ Hurricane Melissa
📜 The “Epstein Files”
🧑💼 U.S. Presidential Inauguration
✝️ The new Pope
✊ No Kings protests
Basically: “Hey Google, why is the world on fire?”
🤖 Top Trends — AI Has Us in a CHOKEHOLD
Literally almost every top trend was AI-based:
• “AI Action Figure”
• “AI Barbie”
• “AI Ghostface”
• “AI Polaroid”
• “Holy Airball”
• “Chicken Jockey”
• “Bacon Avocado” (?!)
• “Anxiety Dance”
• “Unfortunately, I Do Love…”
• “Ghibli” 🌙✨
If you know ALL of these… go outside. Touch grass. 🪴😭
🧒💬 Top ‘Why Do Kids Say…’ Searches
Parents were confused this year. VERY confused. Why do kids say…
• “67”
• “Sigma”
• “41”
• “Skibidi”
• “Ohio”
• “Rizz”
• “Good boy”
• “Skibidi toilet”
• “Aura”
• “Chat”
We’re officially raising a generation powered by memes and chaos. 🤷♂️⚡
🍲🔥 Top Viral Food Searches
This is where things get weird. America searched for:
🥣 “Hot honey cottage cheese sweet potato beef bowls” (???)
🥟 Dumpling bake
🥬 Cabbage boil
🥕 Carrot salad
🧅 Onion ring chips
🍖 Crockpot turkey breast
🇹🇷 Turkish pasta
🍝 Ditalini pasta
TikTok chefs, PLEASE go touch grass too. 😂
✈️🌎 Top Travel Searches
Where America wanted to escape to:
• Boston
• Seattle
• Tokyo
• NYC
• Prague
• London
• San Diego
• Miami
• Edinburgh
• Acadia National Park
Honestly? Great list. Solid getaway vibes. 🌴🛫
Google has the full deep dive if you want to see local results and global trends — but for now, just know that America spent 2025 searching for politics, slang, TikTok recipes, and existential dread.
Sounds about right. 😆📱🔥
