Brat is a music album by British pop singer Charli XCX that came out in the summer of 2024 and was big with the pop girlies for a couple of months, a period of time that got dubbed “Brat summer.” The green square in the starter pack is the album’s cover art.
It definitely wasn’t just redditors. In the months following the release of that album, I don’t think I had a single night out where I didn’t hear a song from Brat being played.
Only in the US, the Dubai chocolate thing was well established in Europe in 2024. It was the most annoying thing on every christmas market last year and now it's basically dead.
Honest question, why? Like, I had never heard of Dubai chocolate until Halloween and I spend at least 8 hours a day online. I feel like I'm walking around in broad daylight and still somehow under a rock
I have been terminally online for more than two decades. I do not have Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or tiktok. I remember when YTMND's were the new shit and streaming on JustinTV. I remember the deep lore of Tumblr and I found out that the streaming service Kick is not the same as the anonymous chat service Kik literally yesterday. I met my spouse in a videogame chatroom on VoIP and I was there when AO3 split from fanfiction.net. I browsed the original icanhazcheeseburger before Funnyjunk bought its own hype. I thought Chapel Roan was a racehorse for two years.
Now all these memories will be lost, like tears in the rain...
Exactly what they mean: not "why this exact building", but "Dubai as an aesthetic". Same with the drink, not any milk tea, but that bright green matcha everyone posted with the same caption. Throw in Dubai chocolate, skyline pics, cheap flights and you get a very specific 2025 online mood.
I think it's because they've restarted building that 1000m tall skyscraper in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah Tower), which means that in 2035 the Burj won't be the tallest building in the world anymore.
In 2035 people will also be nostalgic for 2025's clean water, lack of radiation poisoning, the existence of the Iberian peninsula, and a time before MechaReagan's takeover of the United States.
t's funny how 2025 nostalgia in 2035 isn't 'old photos' but brand logos and random internet bits: matcha boba, the neon-green brat square, a Dubai flex pic, that slightly cursed mascot, and Jet2. Even the lonely '67' feels like an inside joke we'll all pretend we remember. Time is rude.
Jet2Holidays is a UK airline that’s been using Jess Glynn’s song “Hold My Hand”. The company particularly uses the same narrator for all their adverts, starting with “Nothing beats a Jet2Holiday” alongside other variations.
Since then it’s been memed to shit despite the main audio being like a decade old.
I genuinely wonder what it is going to be like in another decade or so when kids wo grew up watching things like Italian Brainrot or other AI slop are looking back with nostalgia and trying to remember some weird thing they saw as kids on Youtube that doesn't exist anymore.
All I see is a stable diffused painting of the word
AI SLAP
I mean although I would like to thank you for not putting KPDH with these pieces of crap but hey there must be nice things that is 2025 nostalgia to the kids amirite?
You kind of forget about some internet cartoon known as "The Amazing Digital Circus", which was apparently popular among Gen Alpha(and probably late Gen Z).
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werent brat and the xiaohongshu move like last year tho
Yeah, Brat Summer was a very last-year thing.
Wtf is Brat summer
Brat is a music album by British pop singer Charli XCX that came out in the summer of 2024 and was big with the pop girlies for a couple of months, a period of time that got dubbed “Brat summer.” The green square in the starter pack is the album’s cover art.
The “—- summer” thing is so interesting to me. I don’t hate it yet, but I’m sure I will eventually
Something redditor types consider very culturally relevant, but nobody actually cares about.
It definitely wasn’t just redditors. In the months following the release of that album, I don’t think I had a single night out where I didn’t hear a song from Brat being played.
Do you only hang out on Reddit? Brat was huge lol.
If anything people on Reddit don’t know about it at all. I’m college aged and I remember all the girls my age being in to it in real life
I guess it's more popular in America than it is in Europe?
I've seen some marketing for Brat, though I couldn't tell you what it is. And I've never heard anyone talk about it.
Well how old are you?
I think about same age as you since I just finished college/university last year and I'm now applying for a master's degree.
....redditors? I'm sorry but when I think of the BRAT girlies and the hype around that album, reddit is literally the last website I think about lmao
Some I think British? music artist dropped an album and 2024 summer was “brat summer”…and then everyone forgot about it by October
I still see posts about brat all the time
Thinking Brat wasn't relevant for long basically confirms you don't talk to women
Most girls in my age group don’t really talk to guys that much either
It's giving...incel.
I’m 13 alfredbro let me focus on homework not women
If you don't want to word fight, don't step into the text arena
Bro💀
xiahongshu was literally in january when tiktok got banned in the US for 14 hours
I won’t be surprised if people associate it with the mid-2020s in general
no Dubai chocolate and Labubus?
I think image #3 is meant to be Dubai chocolate but yes labubus are lacking
Tbh I don't know anyone who actually likes labubus
I’d argue that labubu has become a meme beyond the actual toys
Kids like them. Like under 10. But that's expected
Don't forget about furry-fication on IPs after Labubu, onesie or full-head mask
Thats so 2024
it was not, it was this year
Pretty sure 67 and matcha will become even more popular in 2026.
Labubu and dubai choc started gaining traction in 2024 but reach a new level of popularity in 2025
so it's so 2025
Only in the US, the Dubai chocolate thing was well established in Europe in 2024. It was the most annoying thing on every christmas market last year and now it's basically dead.
What's up with the burj khalifa and milk tea?
I think the milk tea is probably matcha? Have no idea why Burj khalifa is there though.
Dubai as in Dubai chocolate
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Honest question, why? Like, I had never heard of Dubai chocolate until Halloween and I spend at least 8 hours a day online. I feel like I'm walking around in broad daylight and still somehow under a rock
Damn being online that much and not hearing about dubai chocolate must legit be a feat. It was everywhere, from official news to memes.
I have been terminally online for more than two decades. I do not have Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or tiktok. I remember when YTMND's were the new shit and streaming on JustinTV. I remember the deep lore of Tumblr and I found out that the streaming service Kick is not the same as the anonymous chat service Kik literally yesterday. I met my spouse in a videogame chatroom on VoIP and I was there when AO3 split from fanfiction.net. I browsed the original icanhazcheeseburger before Funnyjunk bought its own hype. I thought Chapel Roan was a racehorse for two years.
Now all these memories will be lost, like tears in the rain...
UAE is pushing the Dubai chocolate wave because previously Dubai Chocolate probably refers to making escorts eat buckets of human shit
How do I un-read a comment
There’s always some sort of Dubai trend getting rid of focus from uae doing slave labor
that and Dubai influencers and the whole Dubai lifestyle thing. It feels like everyone I know either lives in Dubai or has lived there before
Exactly what they mean: not "why this exact building", but "Dubai as an aesthetic". Same with the drink, not any milk tea, but that bright green matcha everyone posted with the same caption. Throw in Dubai chocolate, skyline pics, cheap flights and you get a very specific 2025 online mood.
but matcha was a 2016-17 trend
I think it's meant to represent Dubai
Dubai chocolate
Matcha took off in 2025 like crazy
Wasn't that 2015?
No, they mean 2025, the whole performative male thing
I think it's because they've restarted building that 1000m tall skyscraper in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah Tower), which means that in 2035 the Burj won't be the tallest building in the world anymore.
Huh yeah I guess there really wasn't much of substance worth remembering this year.
67 is literally one if the unfunniest memes ever
Ok unc
I feel like rednote won’t be that remembered, it was popular for like a week then it died once TikTok came back.
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As huge as that is now, not everything will be remembered to be put in this.
There's way better things that happened in 2025
Like the Minecraft and fnaf movies and all the good games that came out
But that's not what this SP is suppose to be, this is all the bad-but-popular crap that kids will be nostalgic for.
Idk man you're kinda reaching
Mark my words.
brat was 2024
What is brat
An album from 2024
An album from 2024
Is that controversial
In 2035 people will also be nostalgic for 2025's clean water, lack of radiation poisoning, the existence of the Iberian peninsula, and a time before MechaReagan's takeover of the United States.
Tung Tung Sahur is legendary
Matcha is centuries old, I doubt people will be nostalgic for it since it was always here, it just became more mainstream in the west.
367 partygirl
I am NOT having nostalgia for pieces of shit like 67.
Your children will tho
The days when we had more than one streaming service
t's funny how 2025 nostalgia in 2035 isn't 'old photos' but brand logos and random internet bits: matcha boba, the neon-green brat square, a Dubai flex pic, that slightly cursed mascot, and Jet2. Even the lonely '67' feels like an inside joke we'll all pretend we remember. Time is rude.
I don't even know what half of these are
You must be old
I'm quarter aged
Can someone explain the Jet2holidays?
a audio ppl used on tiktoks n reels a lot for some reason, never understood it lol
Jet2Holidays is a UK airline that’s been using Jess Glynn’s song “Hold My Hand”. The company particularly uses the same narrator for all their adverts, starting with “Nothing beats a Jet2Holiday” alongside other variations.
Since then it’s been memed to shit despite the main audio being like a decade old.
Nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday!
And right now, you can save £50 per person! That's £200 off for a family of four!
I'm glad I don't know what any of these are, except Jet2 of course because who doesn't love a Jet2 holiday.
What a trully awful year for memes.
How is the word "brat" 2025?
It's a Charli xcx album. Can't tell you if it's good or not though since I don't listen to her music.
it is extremely good actually go listen to it
And I cannot either because I just saw that name for the first time.
Because charli xcx
It was fucking 2024
Oh yeah I forgot GTA 6
From the generation that got repeated "Rick James, Bitch!" for months on end, comes "These kids are annoying and stupid!"
What is the top right thing
Matcha
Top right not top left
nostalgia for people with 5 second attention spans and 12 hour screen times since these are already now light years away from being relevant
I will not miss any of this, although the brat album cover is a bit funny.
Remember what Dubai was like before the war?
I genuinely wonder what it is going to be like in another decade or so when kids wo grew up watching things like Italian Brainrot or other AI slop are looking back with nostalgia and trying to remember some weird thing they saw as kids on Youtube that doesn't exist anymore.
I only get 6 out of 7 of these references
This is a year were not getting nostalgia for
There’s not going to be a 2035.
https://preview.redd.it/hlpng2f5468g1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=917bb0e964dd800e967d3d77ba6028a4d3eb6329
Its easy to forget about that.
I don’t remember any of this, other than jet2 because some co-workers were quoting it
I’m so glad I don’t understand anything here
Where is property in Egypt
brat is the only good thing on here.
All I see is a stable diffused painting of the word
AI SLAP
I mean although I would like to thank you for not putting KPDH with these pieces of crap but hey there must be nice things that is 2025 nostalgia to the kids amirite?
I’d argue it was more Huntrx summer this year over Brat summer.
RemindMe! 10 years
Ngl I’m 20 yet already missing when skibidi toilet was the main thing being dogged on. Atleast it was non-AI actually human made content
What is the lower left thing? We saw a bunch of those at the mall being sold at kiosks and I've never seen it before
People Working Instead of Robots
whats brat, the red logo, n the bottom left dude
Wasn't brats peak in 2024 though? Like some of it carried out in 25 but I wouldn't call it 2024 nostalgia.
No mention of John Cena?
Dont forget to add real non ai pictures of things.
Did AI make this or does OP have early onset dementia? Brat Summer was 2024
What does brat and the red logo mean
You kind of forget about some internet cartoon known as "The Amazing Digital Circus", which was apparently popular among Gen Alpha(and probably late Gen Z).
Never heard of this? Im 22. I'm not making starter packs foe gen alpha lol