This year, TikTok has been impactful by shaping viral cultural trends, building communities and leading to the growth of many businesses through e-commerce. From viral dances to funny challenges and even a nationwide ban, TikTok captured the attention of millions of people worldwide in 2025. Here’s a look at some of the most popular TikTok trends of this year:
Angel Tree-
This is a very new and popular trend taking over TikTok influencers. They pick a name off a tree at Walmart, which has a kid’s name on it, and they buy them the gifts that they have asked for. This is a very heartfelt trend, making sure kids have a great Christmas.
GRWM ( Get Ready With Me)-
The name practically speaks for itself. People all over social media love to share their morning routine or tell a story while getting ready for the day.
67 Trend-
This trend originated from a song called “Doot Doot” by Skrilla. It really has no meaning behind it, but it's been a very popular trend on TikTok for the last couple of months.
Silent dancing and letting TikTok pick the sound-
This is a fairly new but popular trend, where people film themselves dancing in silence, and then TikTok picks out their audio, and a lot of the time it matches up with the video, making it ten times funnier.
Imposter challenge trend-
This is a funny game where a group of friends has a word, and they start trying to describe the word, but one of the friends has a different word from everyone else, and they are trying to fit in and guess the word everyone else has, without the others knowing they are the imposter.
Goodnight trend-
This was a very chaotic trend. The people who participated in this trend called their exes or old talking stages to tell them goodnight.
100 men v.s. one gorilla-
This was a huge debate throughout TikTok, debating whether 100 men could defeat a single gorilla. This trend inspired a lot of theories and skits, as well as people creating their own lists of 100 people and what their role would be in fighting the gorilla, making fun videos to watch.
Dubai Chocolate-
This was a huge food trend throughout social media. People started to put Dubai chocolate on strawberries, chocolate bars, and other foods, making it into perfumes, and more.
Emergency Contact Trend-
This was a trend where people shared who their emergency contact was. Those who participated in this trend shared a funny and chaotic video of who they realized was their emergency contact, making them wonder if they would actually be in good hands in an emergency.
Influencers' confession trend-
While TikTok was counting down the minutes until it got banned, many influencers on TikTok were telling confessions about their lives, friends, and online drama, since the app was about to go away forever. TikTok was banned for less than one day.