“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 surprising, the statement felt like a plot twist—and it delivered INQUIRER.net’s most significant social media engagement of the year. The line opened the floodgates to heightened public interest in corruption-related stories. Netizens closely followed developments surrounding the resignation of the President’s cousin, Martin Romualdez, from […]... Keep on reading: INQUIRER.net’s most-engaging stories that defined 2025