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Are you ready for the code that cracked 2025?
Forget headlines and think culture.
From China to the English-speaking world, this year's viral words weren't just slang.
They were secret signals.
They told us what we feared, what we laughed at, and what we couldn't stop scrolling.
Today, we'll decode the language that defined us in the last 12 months.
We're live from Beijing.
This is Roundtable.
I'm Steve.
Thank you very much for being with us today.
And for the show, I'm with Youshun and Fei-Fei.
First up...
Every December brings a fresh batch of new buzzwords,
those quick, catchy expressions that somehow pop up everywhere at once.
They are in our memes, our headlines, in office chats, and even in our late night scrolls.
2025 is of course no exception, and this year,
China and the English-speaking world have given us some really fun ones,
both linguistically and in sociological ways.
You hear them, you laugh at them, and before you realize it,