A Year in Review: Analysis and Rating of 2025 Consumer Trends
Hi, and welcome back. Today we're gonna take a look at 2025 consumer trends, and I'm gonna provide a bit of analysis/insight, along with a ranking. At the end of the day, my rankings are subjective, so yeah, that's it. 1) The Matcha Boom This year saw the intense boom of matcha, specifically the iced matcha latte. It seemed like so many people were trying to get onto this trend, some of them def forcing themselves to like it. Now, I'm a matcha enjoyer, I won't lie. I fucking love matcha. That being said, my mom put me on matcha when I was a sophomore in highschool way back in 2021, so I've been around on this one. Personally, I don't care if people like matcha or not, as long as it stays in stock. What does piss me off though is that people are faking liking it, and then coming after me for being a "performative bastard" for messing with it. Let's be clear, this is my stuff, don't come at me. Anyway I'll end the angry rant there, but I...