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  1. Baby Doge n. ◐ Dying 2021– A coin launched in June 2021 as the child of Dogecoin, with a cartoon puppy and a supply in the quadrillions, which rose sharply after Elon Musk twee… 3
  2. Baby Gronk Rizzed Up Livvy Dunne phr. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The June 2023 phrase — a ten-year-old youth-football prodigy nicknamed 'Baby Gronk' meeting gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne, reported by the inter… 3
  3. Baby I'm Yours n. ◐ Dying 2018– A 2010 disco-pop song by Breakbot that became the soundtrack for a specific remix format: a clip of someone being caught, arrested or otherwise ambus… 4
  4. Baby Reindeer n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A comedian's dramatisation of being stalked, which became the most-watched thing of April 2024, produced a meme from the emails ('sent from my iPhone… 2
  5. Baby Shark n. ☠ Dead 2016–2019 A campfire song about a family of sharks, rebuilt in neon. The most-viewed video on YouTube, and the only entry whose cause of death is also its enti… 0
  6. Baby Yoda n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 A small green creature in a floating pram. Disney had withheld the toys to avoid spoilers, then released them, and the merchandise was the tombstone. 1
  7. Babygirl (Men) n. ● Alive 2022– A grown man — usually a middle-aged actor or a murderous fictional character — called 'babygirl' by the internet with total sincerity, as the 2022–23… 2
  8. Bachelorette Pulled n. ◐ Dying 2026– ABC's removal of The Bachelorette from its schedule in March 2026, three days before the twenty-second season was due to premiere on 22 March, amid a… 2
  9. Back-Seat Gaming n. ● Alive 2010– Telling a player what to do while they play — back-seat gaming — from the sofa into the chat, where thousands of people tell one person to 'go left'.… 3
  10. Backrooms n. ● Alive 2019– Endless yellow office corridors reached by noclipping out of reality. A folk horror setting authored by nobody and maintained by everybody. 1
  11. Backrooms (Film) n. ● Alive 2026– The 2026 A24 science-fiction horror film that turned the Backrooms creepypasta into a feature, directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons, written by Wil… 4
  12. Backseat Gaming n. ● Alive 2012– Telling the person playing what to do, from the couch since the 1980s and from Twitch chat since about 2012, where a streamer stuck on a puzzle can r… 3
  13. Bacon Hair n. ● Alive 2016– The default Roblox avatar whose free hair item resembles rashers of bacon, and by extension any new or unbothered player who never changed it. The re… 3
  14. Bad and Boujee n. ◐ Dying 2016– A Migos single that became a meme almost entirely on the strength of its first two words. 'Raindrop, droptop' was pulled out of the verse and used as… 3
  15. Bad Bunny Halftime n. ● Alive 2026– The first Super Bowl halftime performed largely in Spanish, and the internet's month of reactions: people who loved it, people learning the words, an… 3
  16. Bad Faith adj. ● Alive 2016– Arguing without meaning it — in bad faith — as the internet's word for the opponent who is not really asking, and 'good faith' for the one who is, an… 3
  17. Bad Luck Brian n. ☠ Dead 2012–2014 A school photo, braces, a plaid sweater vest and a two-line tragedy. The subject sold the picture as an NFT for $36,000 in 2021, which is the only go… 4
  18. Bad Luck Brian NFT n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 Kyle Craven, whose 2006 school photograph became Bad Luck Brian, sold the image as a token in March 2021 for 20 ETH, reported at around $36,000 — a m… 3
  19. Baddie n. ● Alive 2016– Contoured, laid edges, long nails, a matching set, a lash and a ring light — the baddie — as the Instagram aesthetic of the late 2010s built on Black… 3
  20. Badger Badger Badger n. ☠ Dead 2003–2020 Badgers, a mushroom, a snake, on a loop. Ran uninterrupted for seventeen years and then stopped on the same afternoon as everything else made in the … 4
  21. Bae n. ☠ Dead 2013–2016 A partner, before anyone else. Tweeted by Olive Garden and Burger King in the same month, and thereby nobody's. 1
  22. Bag Holder n. ● Alive 2013– Someone left holding an asset after everyone else has sold — the bag, the holding, the loss with a strap. From old trading slang into the internet's … 3
  23. Baka n. ● Alive 2000– 'Idiot', 'fool' — the mildest Japanese insult, learned by anglophones from a thousand subtitled scoldings and used online as an affectionate 'you dop… 2
  24. Balatro Addiction n. ● Alive 2024– The condition of having opened a poker roguelike for 'one run' and looked up to find it was 3 a.m. and Wednesday. Named by its sufferers in 2024, who… 3
  25. Bald Fraud n. ● Alive 2019– Pep Guardiola, as named by football Twitter every spring his Manchester City side went out of the Champions League — 'bald fraud', 'the fraud is bald… 3
  26. Bald George Costanza n. ● Alive 2026– A redesign trend in which George Costanza — already bald — is re-imagined as everyone else: a mob boss, a Norwegian, a CFA analyst, a Sonic character… 2
  27. Baldi's Basics n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 A game-jam entry made to look like a 1990s educational CD-ROM, in which a maths teacher called Baldi chases you with a ruler when you get a sum wrong… 3
  28. Baldur's Gate 3 n. ● Alive 2023– A hundred-hour role-playing game adapted from Dungeons & Dragons, released in August 2023 by a Belgian studio after three years of early access, and … 4
  29. Balen Shah Landslide n. ◐ Dying 2026– The result of Nepal's general election on 5 March 2026, in which the Rastriya Swatantra Party led by Balen Shah won by a landslide. The record notes … 2
  30. Balenciaga Pope n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The Pope in a white puffer jacket, generated. The first AI image that fooled a large number of people, and the last that fooled anyone who read a new… 1
  31. Ballerina Cappuccina n. ● Alive 2025– A dancer with a cappuccino mug for a head, en pointe, with a narration about her love of music. The most drawn, most costumed and most merchandised o… 2
  32. Ballerina Farm n. ● Alive 2024– A Utah farm with eight children, a Juilliard-trained mother, and a newspaper profile in July 2024 that made the whole internet argue about whether sh… 2
  33. Ballerino Lololo n. ● Alive 2025– A male dancer with a coffee cup for a head, introduced as the partner or rival of Ballerina Cappuccina depending on the edit. The genre's attempt at … 3
  34. Balletcore n. ◐ Dying 2023– Wrap cardigans, leg warmers, ribbons, and a ballet flat with a satin bow, worn by people who had not danced since they were six. The 2023–24 aestheti… 2
  35. Ballon d'Or Boycott n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A football club learning its player would not win the award and refusing to attend the ceremony, and the internet's response: memes of an empty seat,… 2
  36. Banana Cat n. ◐ Dying 2023– A cat's face on a banana, crying — the crying-cat meme with a banana body — which became the reaction of early 2023 and the character in a thousand s… 2
  37. Bananita Dolfinita n. ● Alive 2025– A dolphin with a banana body, leaping from the sea in the narration, one of the cast's few cheerful characters and one of the few female ones by fand… 3
  38. Bandit Heeler n. ● Alive 2023– The father in Bluey — a cartoon dog who plays every game, never phones it in and occasionally lies on the floor — as the internet's model of fatherho… 3
  39. Bandwidth (Corporate) n. ● Alive 2005– 'I don't have the bandwidth' — time and energy, as a network metaphor — as the corporate way of saying no, and the record's entry for the word that m… 2
  40. Bangaranga n. ◐ Dying 2026– The song with which the Bulgarian contestant Dara won the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna, held from 12 to 16 May, giving Bulgaria its first v… 3
  41. Banhammer n. ● Alive 2000– The moderator's power of removal, as a tool. The only weapon in this record that the people it is used on also find funny. 1
  42. Banksying n. ● Alive 2025– Quietly dismantling a relationship from the inside before announcing the end — like the painting that shredded itself at auction. The 2025 word for a… 3
  43. Banner (Gacha) n. ● Alive 2013– A limited-time draw in a gacha game featuring one or two characters at raised odds, named for the promotional image, and the unit of time by which a … 2
  44. Banter n. ● Alive 2010– Teasing between friends, as a culture — 'banter', 'bantz' — which the 2010s British internet elevated to a value and a defence: 'it's just banter'. T… 3
  45. Banter Era n. ● Alive 2016– The name football Twitter gives, with hindsight, to a club's years of comic mediocrity — most famously Arsenal's stretch from around 2011 to 2018, na… 3
  46. Barbenheimer n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 Two films with nothing in common, watched as a double bill because they opened on the same day. Lasted precisely one summer and one awards season. 4
  47. Barbie Box Trend n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The doll-box variant of the starter pack: yourself in a pink Barbie box with a job title on the front. Two weeks in April 2025, and then gone, like a… 3
  48. Barbie Selfie Generator n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A website that put you on a Barbie poster with a tagline — 'This Barbie is tired' — which every account used in April 2023 and which the record files… 2
  49. Barbiecore n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 Hot pink, worn as a position. Was a brand from the start and became a bigger one, which is not the same as living. 0
  50. Barbz n. ● Alive 2010– Nicki Minaj's fandom — the Barbz, from her Harajuku Barbie persona of 2010 — the most feared reply squad in pop, known for organised defence, chart p… 2
  51. Bard n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Google's first public chatbot, announced in a hurry in February 2023 with a promotional post in which it wrongly credited the James Webb telescope wi… 4
  52. Bard Webb Demo Error n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The launch advert for Google's Bard chatbot, posted in February 2023, in which the bot claimed the James Webb Space Telescope took the first pictures… 3
  53. Bare adv. ● Alive 2000– 'A lot', 'very' — 'bare people', 'bare jokes' — as the Multicultural London English intensifier that means the opposite of its dictionary definition … 3
  54. Bare Minimum Man n. ● Alive 2021– A man praised for doing the least — remembering a birthday, texting back — as the 2021 critique of the low bar, and 'the bare minimum' as the phrase … 3
  55. Bare Minimum Monday n. ◐ Dying 2023– Doing as little as possible on Mondays, deliberately, to ease into the week. Named in early 2023 and adopted by people who had been doing it since em… 3
  56. Barebacking v. ● Alive 2025– Commuting with nothing — no phone, no headphones, no book — and simply looking at the carriage. Named, with deliberate provocation, in 2025, as the s… 3
  57. Barrel Jeans n. ● Alive 2024– Jeans that curve out at the thigh and back in at the ankle, like a barrel or a horseshoe, which became the denim silhouette of 2024–25 and the subjec… 3
  58. Bartiromo Out n. ● Alive 2026– Fox News's announcement in September 2026 that Maria Bartiromo was no longer employed by the company, citing only a 'business decision'. She had been… 2
  59. Bartz v Anthropic n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 The authors' class action that produced the first substantive fair-use ruling on model training. On 23 June 2025 Judge William Alsup held that traini… 4
  60. Base Is for Everyone n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A post from Coinbase's Base account reading 'Base is for everyone', published on 16 April 2025 through Zora, which issued every post as a tradable to… 2