Google came for the wired it girls at its Made by Google showcase last month. The tech giant played a sponsored episode of Kareem Rahma's SubwayTakes talk show during the event, in which Rahma and his fellow comedian Amber Singletary ripped on wired earbuds for looking "sloppy," "dumb," and "not cool."

"The only thing they [wired earbuds] do is get tangled," Rahma said, speaking into a corded mic, to which Singletary replied, also into a corded mic, "Yeah, they get tangled and now you look stupid."

Someone in SubwayTakes' Instagram comments section said it best: "Wow this is the easiest disagree ever." I firmly believe that wired earphones are actually good and worth using in 2025, at least when it comes to Apple's iconic EarPods .

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