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AI Trends:  This year was all about visually creative and fascinating trends, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These AI trends truly transformed the way people create and share content online. This year, AI transformed millions of people’s photos and videos creatively and fascinatingly, which were entertaining and out of the box. From making pictures look like they are from a dreamlike cartoon environment and creating vintage-themed portraits to making people visually hug their past selves or close ones who are not even around, and even displaying a 3D figurine, these AI trends have stormed almost all social media platforms and messenger applications. Let’s take a look at the list of most popular AI trends from 2025 beginning to the present.

AI Trends Of 2025 That Took The Internet By Storm:

1. Ghibli-Style Photos:

One of the most popular AI trends was Ghibli-style portraits, made using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This trend was all about transforming your images into a Studio Ghibli film-inspired style, which is a famous Japanese animated movie style. During this trend, people made their selfies, houses, and even pets into lovely anime-style images. Millions of such pictures were created, and it became one of the most popular AI art trends of the year.

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2. Nano Banana 3D Figurines

The most creatively playful AI trend was Gemini AI’s Nano Banana 3D Figurines trend. The trend was about transforming your pictures into 3D caricature figures. This trend only lasted for a short time, but was widely used because of its creatively stunning, colourful, and beautifully showcased playful side of the internet.

3. Gemini Saree (Vintage AI Saree Edits):

Recently viral, Google Gemini AI’s Nano Banana feature was all about creating retro-style saree photoshoots that every Indian girl was posting online. This trend soon swept across all social media platforms, from Instagram to WhatsApp. As the name suggests, the trend was about turning your photos into vintage Bollywood-style portraits, showcasing them in elegant sarees from the 90s. These AI-generated vintage-style pictures looked like they were straight out of old film magazines with vintage lighting.

4. Hug My Younger Self Trend

One of the most heartwarming and heartfelt AI trends of 2025 was 'Hug My Younger Self,' which was also powered by Gemini AI. The fascinating trend was about creating AI hugging pictures with their younger self or with a close one, even with someone who has passed away. Using Google Gemini’s AI, users upload two images, one of their younger selves or close ones, and another of their current selves, and the AI makes it look like the people in the two images are sharing a warm embrace. This trend is currently making a buzz on the internet. All due to its representation of self-love, healing, nostalgia and holding on to memories. People shared these photos to relive the past and celebrate their progress in life.

Also Read: 35+ Captions For Gemini AI’s ‘Hug My Younger Self’ Or ‘Hug My Close One’ Pictures To Share On WhatsApp, Facebook And Instagram

In conclusion, 2025 highlights the creative capabilities of AI. From Picturesque cartoon-style photos, retro Bollywood saree style, 3D caricatures, or soft and heartfelt moments spent with our younger selves or loved ones, AI is making millions of people fall in love with it. These online trends are a perfect blend of fascination, creativity, and strong emotions that people cannot stop sharing on the internet. With AI's continued growth, the upcoming new features are sure to dominate the world, and people are excitedly awaiting all it has to offer.