Elon Musk's Tesla reported a bigger-than-expected fall in fourth-quarter deliveries on Friday and delivered 1.64 million cars in 2025, down nine percent from the previous year. On Thursday, BYD said it sold 2.26 million battery-powered cars in 2025. Tesla came under pressure in 2025 Tesla said it delivered 418,227 vehicles in the OctoberDecember quarter, down 15.6 percent from 495,570 a year earlier.
For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of "brain rot", AI slop, and " rage bait," a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate to the sound of "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" and "six-seven," on repeat, as a form of torture. Here, we take a look back at the biggest internet-culture moments that brought us all together even as the country is more divided than ever.