2025 was the year a lot of people gave in and made generative AI part of their lives, for better or worse.
A major factor contributing to its proliferation was the spread of easily accessible image generators from the likes of Google and OpenAI. In particular, plenty of folks found time to mess around in Google’s Nano Banana image tool in 2025, and the company dedicated a blog post to revealing several of the most popular prompts users tried out this year.
You can check out the full list on Google’s blog, but here are some of our favorite popular Nano Banana prompts from 2025, courtesy of Google itself.
Trying on clothes
According to Google, lots of folks used Nano Banana to envision themselves wearing clothes they’ve never actually worn. Of all the ways to use AI image generation, this probably makes the most sense, to be honest. It can have actual, practical use in real life, or at the very least can just be amusing for a few seconds.
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Surrounding yourself with dogs
One of the prompts Google shared involved people asking the generator to take an existing image and add a bunch of fake dogs around them. Admittedly, this seems less fun to me than actually being around a bunch of dogs in real life, but if you absolutely need to imagine yourself surrounded by friendly canines, this is a way to make your dream a reality. Sort of.
Photos of people with their younger selves
Apparently, some people gave Nano Banana current images of themselves alongside older images from their childhoods and asked the generator to create a photo where both versions of themselves hang out with each other. To each their own, I guess.
Trying a new haircut
Imagining yourself with a different haircut or color is in the same vein as using AI to try on new clothes, in that it feels eminently useful in a way some of these other prompts maybe don’t. It’s no surprise that hair experimentation was popular on Nano Banana in 2025, and probably will be for as long as people feel like using AI image generation tools.
Creating fake holiday memories
One last kinda goofy example Google provided was people using Nano Banana to create phony holiday images of themselves. Why actually take a festive photo in front of a Christmas tree when you can make the computer generate one for you? There are plenty of reasons why you should maybe consider going for the real thing here, but 2025 proved that not everyone feels that way.
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