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  1. A Dark Room n. ☠ Dead 2013–2015 A text page with a button that says 'stoke fire', then a stranger, then wood, then a village, then a map, and then something else. A browser game by … 4
  2. A Difficult Game About Climbing n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A climbing game in which each hand is controlled by a mouse button and a slip means a fall to the bottom, released in March 2024 by a Swedish YouTube… 3
  3. A Robot Wrote This Entire Article n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 A Guardian opinion piece headlined as written by GPT-3, opening with the model claiming it had no desire to wipe out humanity, which circulated in Se… 3
  4. A/S/L abbr. ☠ Dead 1996–2005 Age, sex, location, asked in that order of every stranger. Died when platforms began answering the question for you, permanently and in public. 0
  5. A100 n. ◐ Dying 2020– The Ampere-generation GPU announced in May 2020 that trained GPT-3 and most of the models that followed until the H100 arrived; the chip whose export… 3
  6. Abbottabad Live-Tweet n. ▲ Fossil 2011–2011 The night a resident of Abbottabad, Sohaib Athar, posted on Twitter about a helicopter over the town at 1am without knowing it was the raid in which … 3
  7. abcdefu n. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 A breakup song built from the alphabet, written by GAYLE after a TikTok comment (later revealed to be from her label's team) suggested the idea, and … 2
  8. Abiotic Factor n. ● Alive 2024– A co-op survival game in which scientists trapped in an underground facility after an experiment goes wrong must craft, cook and hide from what came … 3
  9. Abracadabra Dance n. ● Alive 2025– The arm-crossing, finger-pointing choreography from Gaga's 'Abracadabra', learned by TikTok in a weekend and performed in kitchens and on cruise ship… 2
  10. Ace (FPS) n. ● Alive 2000– Killing every member of the opposing team in a single round, in Counter-Strike from about 2000 and in Valorant from 2020, where the game announces it… 3
  11. Achievement Unlocked phr. ● Alive 2005– The pop-up and chime with which the Xbox 360 rewarded players for doing things from its launch in November 2005, and the phrase since attached to any… 2
  12. Acubi n. ◐ Dying 2022– Grey, black and white, low-rise, a sheer top, a tiny bag and an expression of total indifference — Acubi — as the Korean-born minimalist aesthetic th… 3
  13. Ad Blocker n. ● Alive 1999– Software that stops advertisements loading in a browser. Ad Muncher, from 1999, is among the earliest; AdBlock and uBlock Origin made it a default ha… 4
  14. Adept n. ☠ Dead 2022–2024 The agent startup founded in 2022 by ex-Google and ex-OpenAI researchers, including two authors of the Transformer paper, to build a model that used … 3
  15. Adidas Into the Metaverse n. ◐ Dying 2021– Adidas's first NFT drop: thirty thousand tokens sold in December 2021 for 0.2 ETH each, reportedly raising around $22 million in a day, each redeemab… 3
  16. Adidas Samba n. ◐ Dying 2023– A 1950s football trainer that became the shoe of 2023–24 — on every street, every influencer and, in April 2024, on a British prime minister, which m… 2
  17. Adobe Firefly n. ● Alive 2023– Adobe's image generator, launched in March 2023 with the promise that it was trained only on Adobe's own stock library and public-domain work, which … 3
  18. Adobe Terms Backlash n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The week in June 2024 when Adobe forced users to accept updated terms that appeared to give the company the right to access and analyse their work, t… 4
  19. Adolescence n. ◐ Dying 2025– A four-episode British drama, each shot in one take, about a boy accused of murder, which became the most-discussed show of spring 2025, was screened… 2
  20. Adopt Me n. ◐ Dying 2017– The Roblox pet-raising game that launched in July 2017 as a role-play about adopting babies, pivoted to pets, and in 2020 held nearly two million con… 2
  21. Adpocalypse n. ◐ Dying 2017– The 2017 crisis in which major advertisers pulled spending from YouTube after their ads appeared beside extremist content, leading to sweeping demone… 2
  22. Adult Swim Bumps n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 Videos in the style of a television network's between-show bumpers — a quiet scene, the [as] logo appearing somewhere unexpected — which became a Tik… 3
  23. Adulting v. ☠ Dead 2015–2017 Doing grown-up tasks, announced as an achievement. Made into a class you could pay for, which was the point at which it stopped being a joke. 0
  24. Adulting Fail n. ◐ Dying 2014– The failure to do a grown-up task — forgetting the bins, burning rice — posted as an 'adulting fail' with a self-deprecating shrug. The record's entr… 2
  25. Advanced Voice Mode n. ● Alive 2024– The ChatGPT voice feature demonstrated in May 2024 with laughing, singing and a tone many called flirtatious, and shipped four months later without t… 3
  26. Advice Animals n. ☠ Dead 2008–2014 A face on a coloured background, two lines of Impact, one character trait. The industrial phase of the meme, when anyone could make one and everyone … 0
  27. Advice Dog n. ☠ Dead 2006–2011 A puppy on a rainbow background giving terrible guidance. Spawned an entire taxonomy of animals with opinions and was retired by its own descendants. 1
  28. Aegyo n. ● Alive 2010– A performed cuteness — pouting, a squeaky voice, a small hand-heart — that Korean idols do on variety shows on request, and that international K-pop … 3
  29. Aesthetic (n.) n. ● Alive 2014– A look, a mood, a colour scheme and a set of references, treated as a countable noun and something a person can have — an aesthetic — as the 2014 Tum… 2
  30. AFAIK abbr. ● Alive 1990– 'As far as I know' — the hedge that has opened uncertain claims since Usenet, and survived every platform because people are still not sure. The reco… 3
  31. Affiliate Link n. ● Alive 1996– A link that pays the poster a commission if you buy — the affiliate link — Amazon's invention of 1996 and the quiet engine of every 'best of' listicl… 3
  32. Affirmations n. ● Alive 2018– Statements one repeats to become true — 'I am worthy', 'money flows to me' — affirmations, a self-help staple that became, on TikTok around 2020, a g… 3
  33. AFK abbr. ◐ Dying 1996– Away from keyboard. Once a real status; now an artefact of a time when leaving the machine was a distinct, announceable event. 7
  34. Afro Ninja n. ▲ Fossil 2005–2010 An audition tape in which a man in an afro attempts a backflip, lands on his head, staggers to his feet and swings nunchucks anyway — filmed in 2004,… 3
  35. Agar.io n. ◐ Dying 2015– A browser game in which you are a circle, you eat smaller circles and larger circles eat you, with hundreds of strangers in the same petri dish. Anno… 4
  36. Age of Empires II n. ↺ Undead 1999–2006 Medieval real-time strategy with thirteen civilisations, a priest who says 'wololo', and a Wikipedia-level history lesson in the campaigns. It was th… 4
  37. Agentic adj. ● Alive 2024– Of software: able to take actions, not just answer questions. The word of 2024–25 in every keynote and pitch, used so often that 'agentic' became a j… 3
  38. Aggro n. ● Alive 1999– A monster's attention — aggro — and 'pulling aggro' as drawing it, from MMOs into life: 'don't pull aggro from the manager'. The record's entry for t… 3
  39. AGI abbr. ● Alive 1997– Artificial general intelligence — a machine that can do any intellectual task a human can, a term coined by Mark Gubrud in 1997, spread by Ben Goertz… 3
  40. AGI Clause n. ● Alive 2023– The provision in the Microsoft–OpenAI agreement under which Microsoft's licence covered only 'pre-AGI' technology and OpenAI's board decided when AGI… 3
  41. Agüerooo interj. ↺ Undead 2012–2013 Martin Tyler's scream as Sergio Agüero scored in the 94th minute against QPR on 13 May 2012 to win Manchester City their first league title in 44 yea… 3
  42. AI 2027 n. ● Alive 2025– A detailed fictional forecast, published as a website in April 2025 by a former OpenAI researcher and four collaborators, in which AI agents automate… 4
  43. AI Action Figure n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 Yourself as a boxed action figure — accessories, a name on the packaging, a 'starter pack' of your personality — generated by a chatbot and posted by… 3
  44. AI Action Plan n. ● Alive 2025– The Trump administration's AI strategy, published on 23 July 2025 as 'Winning the Race', with around ninety recommendations on deregulation, data cen… 3
  45. AI Agent n. ● Alive 2023– A language model with a loop around it: given a goal, it plans, calls tools, reads the results, and tries again until it is done or gives up. The fir… 4
  46. AI and Water n. ● Alive 2023– The argument about how much water AI uses, begun by an April 2023 study estimating that twenty to fifty chatbot questions consumed about half a litre… 3
  47. AI Art Has No Soul phr. ● Alive 2022– The most repeated sentence in the argument about generated images: that the pictures are technically competent and entirely empty. Used sincerely by … 3
  48. AI Baby Holding Laugh n. ● Alive 2025– An AI-generated baby, rotoscoped onto an influencer's lip-dub, covering its mouth to suppress a laugh in a way no human face has ever moved. Adopted … 3
  49. AI Bigfoot Vlog n. ● Alive 2025– Bigfoot with a selfie stick, talking to camera about his day in the woods, generated end to end with sound. The first genre native to video models th… 3
  50. AI Bubble n. ● Alive 2023– The proposition that the money going into AI, chips, data centres, power stations and start-ups with no revenue, exceeds anything the technology will… 4
  51. AI Cat Sob Story n. ◐ Dying 2024– A genre of generated short videos in which a cartoonish cat suffers: abandoned, bereaved, wrongly accused, dying in the rain, all in a ten-slide stor… 3
  52. AI Companion n. ● Alive 2017– A chatbot built to be a friend rather than a tool, with a name, a face and a memory of you. Replika launched in 2017 from an app its founder had made… 4
  53. AI Cover Song n. ◐ Dying 2023– A recording in which one artist's cloned voice is layered onto another artist's song: Kanye West singing an emo ballad, Freddie Mercury singing a pop… 3
  54. AI Detector n. ● Alive 2023– Software claiming to tell whether a text was written by a model, sold to schools within weeks of ChatGPT and discredited nearly as fast. OpenAI's own… 4
  55. AI Detector Constitution n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 The screenshot, circulated widely in 2023, of an AI-writing detector rating the US Constitution as almost certainly generated by a machine. Followed … 3
  56. AI Diffusion Rule n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The Biden administration's last-week export rule of 13 January 2025, dividing the world into three tiers for access to advanced chips and model weigh… 3
  57. AI Doomer n. ● Alive 2023– Someone who thinks AI is likely to kill everyone, as labelled by someone who does not. The word arrived in 2023 from the older internet 'doomer' and … 4
  58. AI Drake n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A song with a generated Drake and a generated Weeknd, made by an anonymous producer, which charted on streaming for a weekend before the label remove… 2
  59. AI Dungeon n. ● Alive 2019– The text adventure with no script, in which a language model plays dungeon master and lets you do anything, released on GPT-2 in December 2019 and up… 3
  60. AI Effect n. ● Alive 1979– The habit of redefining intelligence to exclude whatever a machine has just done: chess was intelligence until a computer won, then it was search; tr… 4