• 2025's words of the year reflect a generation frustrated with job prospects, AI, and online culture. • Platforms have chosen terms like "fatigue," "AI slop," and "rage bait." • For the first time, Dictionary.com chose a word that is also a number as its Word of the Year.

Everyone is over 2025.

Various platforms and dictionaries released their word of the year in December, and the choices widely reflect a sense of inescapable uncertainty, exhaustion, and skepticism of the tech world.

"There's no denying that 2025 has been a year defined by questions around who we truly are," said Casper Grathwohl, President of Oxford Languages, "both online and offline."

From early-career job seekers stuck in unemployment, to social media content that never seems to advance the conversation, and w

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