As we enter 2025, nostalgia from the last decade has re-entered pop culture. From jokes online calling 2025 the new 2015 to the rise of old dances such as the renegade on TikTok, trends from 2015 are coming back into style.

Musical.ly, once a music-based short content app, became TikTok and has now surpassed 10 years of age with its release in August 2014. Due to the “ban” of the beloved app, where TikTok was shortly removed from the US, there has been a rise in old Musical.ly trends, audios, dances and memes. This nostalgia has me remembering a better time when the Instagram logo was the old Polaroid camera, X was still Twitter and Vine was in its prime.

Reminiscing on a colorful life in print, I predict a rise in color and maximalism, which is a design movement that embraces the extra. Minimalism, which operates under a “less is more,” philosophy has been popular since before 2020.

Additionally, pop stars who were prominent a decade ago are also making a comeback, including Katy Perry, Pitbull and Bruno Mars. Bruno’s songs “APT” with Rose and “Die With a Smile” with Lady Gaga, were among the most successful releases with both songs charting at number one on the Billboard Global 200. A decade ago, “Uptown Funk” by Bruno was the top song and I recall being in my summer dance class learning the choreography. When I was a child in 2015, I remember watching Markiplier play FNAF, memorizing Nikki Minaj’s raps alone in my room and practicing to hit the perfect Whip and Nae Nae.