Here at Met Radio, we’re closing out 2025 with a new round of year-end favourites! To cap off the year, our volunteers and staff are sharing their personal top-ten lists, highlighting the music, media, and gems that defined the past twelve months. New lists to explore and enjoy will be dropping on the Met Radio website every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this December!
Hello Met Radio readers! My name is Delphine, and I am the Production Coordinator here at Met Radio – basically, I run the live band sessions as well as helping out with any other production-related tasks that need helping out with.
Last year, I wrote an article outlining my top 10 Tumblr posts of 2024, and since people seemed to like it, I figured I would run it back this year. If anyone needs some additional context, Tumblr is a social media/”microblogging” website and app that had its heyday around 2012-2014. While Tumblr still exists, the user base has shrunk dramatically, making it a small, insular, and uniquely weird place to spend your time online.
So, here are my top 10 Tumblr posts of 2025! I’ve put them in countdown order, with the last post of the article (AKA No. 1) being my favourite post of the year. In order for a post to be eligible, it had to have been posted within 2025, or had its final reblog added within 2025. It also had to be native to Tumblr, so reposts of Tweets, TikToks, and other externally sourced content wouldn’t count.
If you read some of these and think “this isn’t funny” or “this doesn’t make any sense, and also isn’t funny”, that’s okay. Think of it like a cultural exchange program – you might not understand everything, but you’ll definitely experience something new.
Anyways, without any further ado:
10. Lunch With Spider
Short and sweet. Makes you think. I would pick lunch with spider, because I have no idea what I would do with 1 million dollars.
9. Dodgers hate posting
Okay, so admittedly this is more of a genre of post but whatever, it’s my list. Tumblr users are not known for their love of sports, but I find it inspiring that the drama of Major League Baseball permeated its way into even the most un-jock-like of social media. This is a small sampling of the posts made, but rest assured, there were many.
8. Chappel loam
“Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > 63 micrometres (0.0025 in)), silt (particle size > 2 micrometres (7.9×10−5 in)), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < 2 micrometres (7.9×10−5 in)).” – Wikipedia
7. Not my island, not my yoshis
Just short and sweet. A variation on the classic “not my monkeys, not my circus”. Delightfully nostalgic.
6. Frog chairs
Okay, to be honest, my favourite thing about this post is not the post itself. It’s actually a text my friend sent me, which consisted of this image of the frog chairs along with the words “me when i try smiling at work”. While my job now has me smiling more often than I thought was possible, I famously worked as a barista for three years, and when I tell you those facial expressions were forced… well. Me when I try smiling at work.
5. BTS Coup
I literally wish this had happened in real life.
4. 1 william years
This post made me laugh so hard when I first saw it that I kept going back to it throughout the day as a pick-me-up. The phrasing of “1 william years” is hysterical to me, and can also be adapted for anything you need – my lunch today? 1 william dollars. My streetcar? 1 william minutes late. Easy.
3. Omelas posting
So this is also a genre of post, but it’s so bizarrely specific that I wanted to include it. If you haven’t read Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, I can’t recommend it enough. Not only is it fantastically written, it’s also a perfect allegory for many of the issues we face in society today. Also, you will understand the two posts above. The thing I appreciate about the top post is that it is both a cutting satire of the current state of Canada’s reconciliation practices, and also the phrase “child acknowledgement statement” is hilarious. The second post is just a thinker.
2. Stop deactivating
This post kind of speaks for itself. I thought we all agreed we were here forever.
1. SPOON BRAIN!
My absolute favourite post of the year. In case you missed it, a study recently found that the average 45-50 year old likely contains enough tiny shards of plastic to create a plastic spoon – that’s right, my friends, our brains are only 99.5% brain, and the rest is plastic. Yay! Surely nothing bad could be caused by this.
I know that’s kind of a bummer note to end on, but if you want, you can take solace in the fact that despite the worldwide spoon brain epidemic, we, as a people, are making funnier posts than ever. And that’s what really matters.