INQUIRER.net’s most-engaging stories that defined 2025

“Mahiya naman kayo” may well go down as the most quoted—and most meme-ified—line of 2025. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s blistering remark during his fourth State of the Nation Address last July, directed at officials and contractors accused of profiting from flood-control projects, instantly went viral. In a political landscape where corruption stories are no longer