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@officialbgsu If 2025 had a color palette, it would be orange and brown.
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Fictional trend report for 2025 colors.from @officialbgsu
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Overview
This carousel post constructs a fictional narrative arguing that orange and brown are the defining colors of 2025. Through a series of expertly crafted collage slides, it presents fabricated evidence from various cultural sectors—including a new orange iPhone, Pantone's Color of the Year, a McLaren F1 championship, and fashion trends—to create a compelling and immersive visual essay on a speculative trend.
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Simple outline
- 1Declare bold trend thesis
- 2Connect to specific brand narrative
- 3Stack cross-industry evidence
- 4Summarize ubiquitous impact
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Classification
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Hook analysis
What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds
Title hook
2025 THE YEAR OF ORANGE & BROWN
Verbal hook
If 2025 had a color palette, it would be orange and brown.
Visual hook
The opening slide features a bold, high-contrast title card with a vibrant, textured smear of orange paint against a dark brown background. The strong typography and minimalist yet tactile composition immediately establish the post's central theme and capture attention.
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Hook and payoff
The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back
Hook
A definitive, poster-style typographic declaration of a macro trend or theme for a specific time period, acting as the thesis statement for the carousel.
Payoff
A catch-all summary slide that rapid-fires a dense list of remaining examples across multiple cultural verticals, leaving the viewer with the impression that the trend is absolutely everywhere.
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Narrative framework
The structural pattern this video runs on
Framework
The Cultural Trend Validator
Establish a bold thesis about a macro cultural trend, tie it to a specific brand's narrative, and overwhelm the viewer with undeniable, cross-industry proof points to make a subjective observation feel like an objective, inescapable reality.
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The Coincidence Bridge
Transitions from the hook by framing the trend as a mysterious alignment of events. It connects the macro trend to a specific brand or entity's momentum, setting up the following slides as undeniable 'proof' of this phenomenon.
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The Evidence Stack
A sequence of slides that systematically validates the thesis by pulling high-status examples from completely different industries (e.g., sports, tech, film, design) to prove the trend's universal reach.
Themes
Techniques
Trends
Post caption
If 2025 had a color palette, it would be orange and brown.
Text overlays
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2025 THE YEAR OF ORANGE & BROWN
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It started to feel like more than a coincidence. From viral moments to pop culture trends and championship uniforms, the colors orange and brown kept reappearing in 2025, quietly aligning with a year defined by Bowling Green's momentum. Even the Cleveland Browns, long tied to Bowling Green through their orange-and-brown roots (Bowling Green came first) with former Falcon greats, including Harold Fannin Jr., taking to the field continuing to wear those same familiar colors. It was a very orange and brown year. And the signs were everywhere....
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MARTY SUPREME
informational · photo_2
Marty Supreme (2025) turned orange into a cultural moment, building its entire Christmas Day rollout around orange ping-pong balls, blimps, and the Empire State Building, all through Timothée Chalamet's now-viral Zoom brainstorming session with the marketing team.
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MCLAREN F1
informational · photo_3
McLaren dominated the 2025 Formula 1 season, clinching the Constructors' Championship and watching Lando Norris seal the Drivers' title in Abu Dhabi. Their papaya orange led F1 this season.
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PANTONE
informational · photo_4
Pantone crowned Mocha Mousse (PANTONE 17-1230) its Color of the Year, the first warm brown in years, which they said “inspires us to curate experiences that boost personal comfort and wellness. From sweet treats to nature walks, the indulgence of simple pleasures that we can also gift and share with others.” Pantone celebrated several collaborations with brands like Motorola, Joybird and more to spread the color brown everywhere.
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THE IPHONE 17
informational · photo_5
iPhone 17 (Cosmic Orange) wasn't just another colorway: Apple leaned into orange on the Pro models, turning a historically muted palette into a bold statement with its “Cosmic Orange” finish.
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CULTURE & FASHION
informational · photo_6
From Taylor Swift and Karol G's album releases to shoe trends and red carpet, film and TV looks, and even the NFL team the Buccaneers bringing back their original orange road jerseys, orange and brown were everywhere we looked in fashion, film, sports, music and pop culture in 2025.