is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools.
In the AI slop-loaded, algorithm-powered modern reality, trends come and go — and the tech industry is no different. For the last few years, The Verge staff has compiled a selection of things that are IN for summer and OUT for summer — and each time there are some strong feelings. (Here are the lasttwo years’ predictions.) Let’s do it again!
IN
OUT
Motion sickness glasses
AI “pervert” glasses
Fiber
Protein
Bootleg sports merch
Official tech company merch
Floating in water
Touching grass
Meredith Haggerty, editor
IN
OUT
The great New York renaissance
The Great American State Fair
The Knicks garbage can
Taylor Swift’s MSG wedding
The Invite
Believing Olivia Wilde is a bad director
Seeing through your own human eyes
The Kylie Jenner Meta glasses
Hayden Field, senior AI reporter
IN
OUT
The NYC ferry
The NYC subway (sorry it’s too hot rn)
Using AI to draft letters to your landlord
Using AI to draft breakup texts, or anything else personal
Letterboxd
Threads
Absolutely unhinged design ideas that AI could never come up with
Millennial minimalism
Victoria Song, senior dystopia reviewer
IN
OUT
Flintstones vitamins
Gray market peptides
Drugstore moisturizer
Looksmaxxing
The FDA approving a new sunscreen filter
Whatever it is RFK Jr. is doing
Writing in an analog journal
AI wearables that record everything you do
Accepting we will all die
Whatever it is Bryan Johnson is doing
IN
OUT
EverQuest (2026)
EverQuest (1999)
Entire bootleg movies on TikTok
20-part “story” edits on TikTok
Boston as the most Scottish city in the US
Boston as the most Irish city in the US
Kevin McShane, editorial director audio/video
IN
OUT
A single plain text file
Vibecoding your own to-do app
Silo season three
Ted Lasso season four
Vertical sitcoms
Vertical dramas
Kevin Nguyen, deputy editor
IN
OUT
Any movie theater that does not serve food to your seat
Alamo Drafthouse
Proton Mail
Gmail
Buying refurbished devices
Buying new devices
Marina Galperina, senior tech editor
IN
OUT
Leaks
Press releases
Practical effects
Generative AI in movies
Making computers
Buying computers
Webrings
X, the everything app
Letting your phone battery die
Doomscrolling
Gaby Del Valle, policy reporter
IN
OUT
Being a bandwagon sports fan
Rivalries – lifelong, heated, etc
Gelato
Frozen yogurt
Dua Lipa’s joie de vivre
Kylie Jenner’s whole deal
Mineral sunscreen
Beef tallow “sunscreen”
Antonio DiBenedetto, reviewer
IN
OUT
Friendslop games
Live-service games
Expensive PC gaming
Expensive console gaming
xboX
XBOX
Liz Lopatto, senior internet typist
IN
OUT
Unconstitutional Iran war
Peace
The shortest inseam you can find and/or make
Pants
Ceasefire
Unconstitutional Iran war
World Cup
Owala tumblers and other adult sippy cups
Unconstitutional Iran war
Ceasefire
Major League Cricket (Go Unicorns!)
Major League Baseball
Ceasefire
Unconstitutional Iran war
McCartney II
Taylor Swift
Unconstitutional Iran war
Ceasefire
Excommunication
JD Vance
Ceasefire
Unconstitutional Iran war
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