Pop culture in 2025: A ring for Taylor, an ill-timed KissCam … and whatever ‘6-7’ means

Photo: Travis Kelce. Photo credit: Erik Drost via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Photo: Taylor Swift. Photo credit: Raph_PH via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by  Jocelyn Noveck. AP News – December 22, 2025.

Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced “6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d think they would have, well, defined it. But no. “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” they told us of this year’s “linguistic time capsule.” But that’s just how pop culture works, isn’t it? Who’s to explain why parents alone in their cars were suddenly singing “up up up” from that “KPop Demon Hunters?” song? Or why, in the Venn diagram of pop culture and zoology, it was the capybara that emerged victorious and beloved? Goodbye, Moo Deng. You’re adorable, but so 2024. […]

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