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Many years ago, Cates Holderness, Josh Fjelstad, Katie Notopoulos, and I started a blog. The point of the blog was simple: Track the “worst stuff” we found on the internet. We took a little break from excavating the worst of the internet, but we felt like 2025 was the right time to get back in the game. So, without further ado, here are our picks for the 20 worst things on the internet in 2025. If you’d like to listen to a podcast version of us making this list, you can listen to it here or anywhere you get your podcasts. And if you want to watch a video version, you can click here.
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1. Pickle Pepsi
2. These coffee mugs
3. This interaction with Grok
4. Rep. Mike Collins eating horse electrolytes
5. A Savannah Bananas-inspired romance
6. The day the ISS Piss Tracker on Bluesky went to 38%
7. The Labubu fleshlight
8. The art this r/Marriage user’s husband wants to hang on their wall
9. This Tumblr video of a marker
10. This Luigi Mangione ita bag
11. The Charlie Kirk Archive of our Own tag page
12. This AI-generated TikTok video about what if you woke up as one of the 9/11 hijackers
@histairy_films POV: You woke up as the t3rr0rist of September 11, 2001.. #Film #ai #cinematic #history
13. The fish brick
14. This post from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
15. This guy who isn’t a foot guy
16. Nighttime erection data from Bryan Johnson’s son Talmage
17. This Austin Cybertruck meetup
18. This realistic MrBeast mask from Temu
19. This AI-generated image of Smeagol marrying pregant Dobby
20. This Instagram Reel
P.S. here’s one more awful thing from 2025.
***Any typos in this email are on purpose actually***