The 2025 Chronically Online Draft Guide

Each year on the We’re Obsessed podcast, I battle it out with my Ringer sisters-in-arms-and-scrolling, Kate Halliwell and Nora Princiotti, to assemble teams of the year’s most chronically online moments. Drafting these moments requires a keen eye for memes that stood above the rest and a thick skin to weather deep-thinking online discourse that threatens our good fun. What happens in the Chronically Online Draft decides the viral standing of these internet main characters, memes, and moments, not only for 2025 but also into eternity. Your online footprint is forever, after all—just ask your dad. He read an article about it 12 years ago.