
Published 20 December 2024
Facing shake-ups including a growing chasm in gender politics, excitement and trepidation surrounding new-wave AI, and a pushback to ‘softly does it’ culture, the most powerful 2025 pop-cultural movements will prioritise pleasure, power, and provocative playfulness. Expect messy, mouthy music and messaging to reign (and their attendant aesthetics), a leap forward in fandoms’ dictation of mainstream entertainment, and encouraging recalibrations of masculinity.



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Microdramas – mobile-first, one- to three-minute serialised stories – are becoming the world’s hottest video entertainment format, propelled by audiences’ desire for digestible escapist viewing beyond endless lo-fi, user-generated content. Must-know directions include genre evolutions across romance, comedy, horror,...