Office affair searches jumped 210% in a year, “CEO” climbed 388%, and Pornhub blames a single kiss-cam scandal. I dug into the 2025 Year in Review numbers, the Coldplay CEO affair that lit the fuse, and the weird paradox of a fantasy surging at the exact moment real office romance is getting policed out of existence. Here’s why workplace roleplay took over 2026 – and where it actually came from.
