The Infographics Show - "Why 2025 Will Be The WORST Year Ever" Preview and Criticism

By: Shane Lambert

The Infographics Show, which is a popular channel on YouTube, had an interesting upload from about a month ago. "Why 2025 Will Be The WORST Year Ever" is a video the channel uploaded in the late part of 2024. Primarily discussing America, the 26-minute show concludes "As things stand, we are getting sicker, sadder, fatter, angrier, more divided, and lonelier."

Obviously, this isn't a video for someone looking for a big pick-me-up. However, I did think that they were talking about facts and truth so maybe it's a video we should all watch. While they mainly talk about the USA, I think the video has insight into other countries for sure.

Channel: The Infographics Show
Title: Why 2025 Will Be The Worst Year Ever
Date: December 18th, 2024

Near the start of the video, the narrator discusses death rates in the USA -- and the fact that they have not improved since the end of the pandemic. America was called "the Grim Reaper's favorite workplace" due to the spike in deaths that the country has seen.

Personally, I think a lot of people are post-pandemic right now. By that, I do not mean to say that the pandemic is history for them. Instead, I mean that they are still in the after-effects of having their lives uprooted from March 2020, when COVID restrictions went viral, to late 2022, when things were somewhat back to normal.

How did things go for people in late 2022 and early 2023? I think this is a time frame when you could once again hope to find a job. However, at this time anyone unemployed had to take the first job that was offered to them.

I was definitely like that and the first job I was offered was not a great one. It ended up being short-term but the first long-term job I had wasn't all good news either. Certainly, in 2022/23/24, I was not in the position that I was in at the start of 2020, before the pandemic restrictions went mainstream. I think there are a lot of people out there who, while they survived the pandemic, have yet to get back to their former glory and that this is one of the reasons why the post-pandemic period has been unstable.

There were a lot of interesting topics discussed in this 26-minute video at The Infographics Show. One interesting part was when they discussed social media and self-harm. Apparently, America's Surgeon General said that social media should have warnings about mental health effects, not unlike the warnings on cigarette packages (the screenshot below is from the video).

In early 2025, Vivek Murthy, the Surgeon General also advocated warnings be put on alcohol. It seems that you should avoid cigarettes for the toxic fumes, alcohol for causing cancer, and social media for toxic people.

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I have no plans of reviewing everything the video talked about. However, the following quotes come from the video: "political polarization," "chronically lonely," and "ultra-processed food." The video also came with a suicide helpline, which I think YouTube selected because of the topics discussed.

One criticism of the video need not be framed as having the benefit of hindsight. 2025 is certainly off to a terrible start for the USA, in part because of the wildfires in California. At the time the video was produced, the wildfires had not started but I would say that a forthcoming environmental catastrophe has been building for quite some time. Any 'doom and gloom' video can't ignore the topic, yet The Infographics Show's episode mainly talked about political polarization, loneliness, social media, mental health, processed foods, and other topics.

But you can judge for yourself. If you want to watch the whole video, then it is embedded below for you.