Which 2025 pop culture moment are you?

Before you ask, yes, you absolutely can be a moment. Don’t act like you’ve never wondered if you’re more Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle or KATSEYE’s GAP campaign.

13 December, 2025

If there’s one thing 2025 has delivered in abundance, it’s pop culture chaos—the kind that becomes your entire personality for at least three business days. Whether you’re plotting a low-key disappearance, rehearsing a perfectly petty one-liner for your ex, or pretending you discovered White Ferrari before everyone else, your choices say more about you than your star sign ever could.

Take this quiz to find out which definitive 2025 pop culture moment you truly embody—and yes, your brunch excuse absolutely matters.

1. What’s your Roman Empire?

a. How easy it is to fake my own disappearance.
b. Whether my ex still lurks in my stories.
c. That late-stage capitalism might be the end of us.

2. You run into an ex at your regular coffee shop. What do you do?

a. Remain unfazed because I am in disguise.
b. Get all riled up and make a scene, then post a quote on my Instagram story about being nonchalant.
c. Say something cryptic and walk out mid-convo.

3. What is that one thing you wouldn’t be caught dead doing?

a. Posting my moves online.
b. Wearing something that is ‘quiet luxury’.
c. Admitting I am wrong, even though I am.

4. You’re running late to brunch. What’s your excuse?

a. “I was at a wake.”
b. “I was locked in.”
c. “Being late is a colonial concept.”

5. Your favourite song right now:

a. Getaway Car by Taylor Swift.
b. Sorry by Justin Bieber (applies to the situation I am in).
c. You’ve probably never heard of it but it’s this lowkey song called White Ferrari by Frank Ocean. Look it up.

Mostly as: The Louvre Heist

You have never not left a social gathering without the Irish goodbye. You’re smooth, strategic, and always charming. You were ‘locked in’ way before that phrase became a part of the zeitgeist. No one ever knows what you’re up to and you thrive on being misunderstood (mostly because it keeps things interesting). You are the plot twist.

Mostly bs: Justin Bieber “Standing on Business”

You don’t know it, but you are iconic. You take yourself just seriously enough to catch everyone’s eyes, but never seriously enough to explain yourself. You’ve mastered the art of looking unbothered while clearly being bothered. Whether it’s a feud, a bad break-up, or a flop era, you’ll always stand on business.

Mostly cs: Labubu on Karl Marx’s Grave

If the internet had a patron saint, it would most likely be you. You contain multitudes and often cross the line between sincerity and irony. You are the friend who would have fun even when the world’s ending. You find humour in everything and beauty in absurdity.

This article first appeared in Cosmopolitan India's November-December 2025 print edition.

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