The top trending memes for this past year are officially in.
Yep, as the likes of Spotify and Apple have delivered you all your years in music, LADbible can now exclusively bring you some of Google’s most searched terms for 2025.
As well as revealing the year’s top trending questions on sex, we’re bringing you the top trending memes across the browser.
Some are slightly surprising, with some arguably viral moments totally missing and some you’ll certainly expect to see in this list. Because let’s be honest, there have been memes and trends that have been totally avoidable on social media in the last few weeks alone, let alone across the year as a whole.
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So, let’s get into things, kicking off with one of the first things that’s probably already come to mind.
'67 meme'
Yep, obviously this one’s on here. The whole virality and bizarreness of this event meant ‘67’ (somehow) ended up ranking as Dictionary.com’s word of the year.
Doing the rounds after an amateur basketball game, when a kid repeatedly shouted ‘six-seven’ while moving his hands, some believe it originates from Skrilla’s lyrics in ‘Doot Doot (6 7)’. But others think it might even link back to police codes.
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Yet, it’s just become a bit of an ‘inside joke, social signal and performance’ among kids. Basically. And understandably, has led to a whole load of us Googling to find out what the f**k it means.
‘Trump meme coin’ and ‘Melania meme coin’
Both the US President and First Lady made it onto the list of top trending memes for 2025 thanks to Donald Trump launching his own cryptocurrency at the start of the year.
$TRUMP reportedly reached a value of nearly $5.5billion (£4.5billion) within hours of launching, and by the summer, he reportedly made millions.
Following that, the $MELANIA coin did collapse pretty quickly and by October was worth less than one per cent of its peak price at about 10 cents.
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‘Hyperpigmentation meme’
This one seems to have originated from a 2019 video and started going viral again on TikTok.
Basically, a woman named Sonia Tiebi filmed the moment her daughter drew a rather, well, interesting picture of her.
“I sat here and posed for like 10 minutes, let me see the product,” she said before her apprehensive little girl showed the drawing.
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Trying not to laugh after asking if it's really supposed to be her, she reassures her daughter before adding the now infamous quote: “What’s that? Is that hyperpigmentation?”
‘JD Vance meme’
Now, we all saw plenty of this one. The bald-headed (and sometimes curly-wigged), apple-cheeked US Vice President was all over social media as users shared various meme snaps of Vance looking ‘baby-faced’.
Although there was that story knocking about that a tourist claimed they were detained for having it on their phone…
‘Sybau meme’
Another one that many parents had to Google, ‘Sybau’ became a bit of a common phrase among kids this year.
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Far harder to understand than ‘talk to the hand’ the acronym actually means ‘shut your b**ch ass up’ which isn’t exactly the most friendly. And the whole reason it seems kids were using it was that they could say it to their parents without them understanding the meaning. Ouch.
‘Low taper fade meme’
A meme from much earlier in the year, it comes from a viral 2024 song called ‘Imagine if a Ninja Got a Low Taper Fade’.
And then popular Twitch streamer Ninja started to play along with it and ended up getting a low taper fade haircut – making the meme live on for longer.
‘Ibiza Final Boss meme’
Well, it’s good to see a textbook classic still makes the list.
The ‘Ibiza Final Boss’ of 2025 was all over social media for part of the summer party season, with Jack Kay’s distinct look getting a lot of attention.
Dripped out with a gold chain, black vest, sunnies and an LV cross-body bag, the bloke was dancing away (rather interestingly) with his unique haircut and facial trim.
He was thought to make thousands from his viral fame and even ended up doing club appearances and releasing music.
‘Lizard meme’
Coming from a Pixar film, a little cartoon lizard spread across social media.
Debuting in the post-credits scene from Elio, it features the little thing smacking his hand down again and again on a phone as a Syri-like voice says ‘lizard’.
It seems to give the creature quite a hit of dopamine, and there are even hours-long videos available of just, well, ‘lizard, lizard, lizard’ online. But while it might be entertaining for some, hearing it over and over again probably isn’t quite the same dopamine hit for everyone.
‘Doakes meme’
Of course, coming from the series Dexter, the face of Sergeant James Doakes (Erik King) became a bit of a meme this year.
With Doakes being known for suspicion (no matter what), social media users started using images of his face as a reaction to various situations.
From using it to react to the Coldplay couple clip to their friends' activities, one simply shared the Doakes meme as they wrote: “I know, but I can’t prove it.”
Topics: Social Media, Google, Viral
Jess Battison