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  1. C2PA abbr. ● Alive 2021– The industry standard for attaching a signed history to an image or video, saying which camera or which model made it and what was done to it since, … 4
  2. Cabal n. ● Alive 2024– The group chat that is said to be behind any mascot that does well — coordinated, secret, rich — which may or may not exist in any given case and is … 2
  3. Cabincore n. ● Alive 2020– Plaid, log walls, wood smoke, a lake and no phone signal — cabincore — as the pandemic-era aesthetic for people who could not leave the city and deco… 2
  4. Caitlin Clark Effect n. ● Alive 2024– The arrival of a college basketball star in the professional league and the attendance, ratings and arguments that followed her — enough that 'the Ca… 2
  5. Cake Day n. ● Alive 2009– The anniversary of a Reddit account, marked with a cake icon and a post asking for upvotes — cake day — as the site's only birthday, and the record's… 3
  6. Call Channel n. ● Alive 2023– A Telegram channel whose entire output is coins: a name, a contract address, sometimes a reason, and a chart posted later if the call went well and n… 4
  7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare n. ▲ Fossil 2007–2011 The Call of Duty that left the Second World War and invented the modern multiplayer template: perks, killstreaks, prestige levels and a progression b… 4
  8. Call of Duty Zombies n. ● Alive 2008– Treyarch's co-op survival mode, first hidden as an after-credits bonus in World at War in 2008 and turned into a phenomenon by Black Ops in 2010, who… 4
  9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) n. ▲ Fossil 2009–2011 Infinity Ward's 2009 sequel, the biggest entertainment launch in history at the time, with an airport level the news covered for a week, a PC boycott… 4
  10. Call of Duty: Warzone n. ● Alive 2020– Activision's free battle royale, released on 10 March 2020, one week before most of the world was told to stay indoors. Verdansk became the lockdown'… 4
  11. Callout Post n. ● Alive 2014– A post listing someone's wrongs, with evidence, for the community to judge — the callout post — from Tumblr fandoms into every platform. The record's… 2
  12. Calm interj. ● Alive 2010– 'Fine', 'no problem', 'okay' — 'calm' — as the London acknowledgement that describes a state and means an agreement, and the record's entry for the w… 3
  13. Cameraman n. ◐ Dying 2023– The faction in Skibidi Toilet with cameras for heads, who fight the toilets on humanity's behalf. Children picked sides. The cameramen were the good … 3
  14. Camp adj. ● Alive 1909– Exaggerated, theatrical, knowingly too much — camp — a century-old word from queer culture that the internet rediscovered in 2019 when a fashion gala… 3
  15. Camping v. ● Alive 1996– Staying in one spot with a good weapon and waiting. The oldest gaming insult still in use and the oldest gaming strategy still in use. 2
  16. Can I Pet That Dawg phr. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A small boy's urgent question, 'Can I pet that dawg?', from a clip that spread across TikTok in early 2023 and became the sound for wanting anything … 3
  17. Can You Send Me 30K? phr. ● Alive 2026– A viral fan animation for Arknights: Endfield created by Simi and Chapchap, listed by Wikipedia among viral music videos and internet memes of 2026. … 3
  18. Canabalt n. ☠ Dead 2009–2013 A man in a suit runs across rooftops in a grey city while something large destroys it behind him, and the only button is jump. Made in five days for … 4
  19. Cancel Culture n. ● Alive 2018– The practice of collective withdrawal of support — cancel culture — named as a phenomenon in 2018 and argued about every day since, by people who thi… 3
  20. Cancelled adj. ● Alive 2015– Publicly withdrawn from, as a person. Coined as a joke about a celebrity and has since been the subject of more essays than any word here. 2
  21. Candy Box! n. ☠ Dead 2013–2014 A page that counts candies, one per second, in ASCII text, and slowly grows a shop, a quest system and a dragon out of the counting. Made by a ninete… 4
  22. Candy Crush Saga n. ● Alive 2012– A match-three puzzle game of sweets, lives that regenerate on a timer and a map of levels that has passed many thousands. The record's entry for the … 4
  23. Canon n. ● Alive 1995– What officially happened in a story — canon — as opposed to headcanon, fanon, and what should have happened, from Sherlock Holmes societies into ever… 2
  24. Canon Event n. ◐ Dying 2023– A necessary bad experience that makes you who you are, from a film about multiverse plot logic. Used to excuse not warning a friend about a haircut. 0
  25. Canon Rock n. ▲ Fossil 2005–2010 A rock arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D written by JerryC, which became famous through a cover by a masked bedroom guitarist known as funtwo and… 3
  26. Canthal Tilt n. ● Alive 2023– The angle of the corners of the eyes — positive is attractive, negative is not, according to a corner of the internet with a protractor. The looksmax… 3
  27. Cap n. ◐ Dying 2018– A lie — 'that's cap' — and the 🧢 emoji for calling one, from Atlanta slang into everyone's mouth by 2020 and, with 'no cap', into every advert by 20… 2
  28. CapCut Template n. ● Alive 2022– A pre-built edit in ByteDance's CapCut editor into which you drop your own photos and receive a finished, beat-synced TikTok. From 2022 the 'CapCut' … 3
  29. Cappuccino Assassino n. ● Alive 2025– A cappuccino cup with a ninja's body and two blades, married — by fandom decree — to Ballerina Cappuccina. Italian brainrot's leading man, in as far … 2
  30. Caps Lock Shouting n. ● Alive 1985– ALL CAPS AS SHOUTING — a rule of netiquette since the 1980s, when it was explained to newcomers that capitals were rude, and still the internet's onl… 2
  31. CAPTCHA n. ● Alive 2000– The 'prove you're not a robot' test — distorted words, then house numbers, then a grid of traffic lights — invented at Carnegie Mellon around 2000 an… 3
  32. Capture of Maduro n. ● Alive 2026– The US operation of 3 January 2026 in which airstrikes in Venezuela were followed by the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flo… 2
  33. Capybara n. ● Alive 2022– The world's largest rodent, and the internet's calmest animal — the capybara — turned into a 2022–23 meme by clips of it sitting in hot springs, gett… 2
  34. CAR Token n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A coin announced on X by the President of the Central African Republic in February 2025 as an experiment to support national development, in a video … 4
  35. Caramelldansen n. ↺ Undead 2006–2013 A loop of two anime girls waving their hands over their heads, set to a sped-up 2001 Swedish pop song, that spread from Japanese and 4chan boards in … 3
  36. Cardboard Beds n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The recyclable cardboard beds in the Olympic village, rumoured to be 'anti-sex' and tested on camera by athletes jumping on them. A meme about furnit… 3
  37. Cargo Cult n. ● Alive 1974– Copying the form of something without understanding why it works — cargo cult programming — from a 1974 lecture into the developer's word for code pa… 2
  38. Carnivore Diet n. ● Alive 2023– Eating only meat — steak, eggs, butter, nothing green — as a diet and a personality, popular in 2023–24 with men who posted their breakfasts and thei… 3
  39. Carry v. ● Alive 2005– To win a game for a team that did not deserve it — to carry — and 'carried' as the state of the teammates who were. The record's entry for the verb o… 2
  40. Caseoh n. ● Alive 2024– A streamer whose size became the subject of a joke genre so large — 'Caseoh is so big that…' — that he became a meme by hosting the memes about himse… 3
  41. Cash Cat n. ● Alive 2026– A community memecoin on Robinhood Chain built on one fact: before it was Robinhood, the app was going to be called Cash Cat, a mascot with a fistful … 4
  42. Cash Me Ousside phr. ☠ Dead 2016–2017 A teenager challenging a studio audience to a fight, in an accent that spawned a catchphrase. She became a rapper; the phrase became a T-shirt; both … 1
  43. Cassette Futurism n. ● Alive 2014– The future as imagined with CRT monitors, beige plastic, chunky keyboards and reels of tape — cassette futurism — as the name that emerged around 201… 2
  44. Cassius Thundercock n. ◐ Dying 2024– A Tennessee state trooper with a jaw like a cliff and glasses like a professor, photographed after a college football game and captioned 'new Gigacha… 3
  45. Castlecore n. ◐ Dying 2025– Tapestries, wrought iron, velvet, gothic arches, candlelight and a stone-floored bedroom in a rented flat — castlecore — as the 2025 interiors and fa… 3
  46. Cat in a Dog's World phr. ◐ Dying 2024– The slogan of the 2024 cat season: a small cat mascot introduced with the claim that it was a cat in a dog's world, and that this was a hardship. Cat… 3
  47. Cat Loaf n. ● Alive 2013– A cat sitting with all four paws tucked under, so that it is a loaf — a loaf of cat — and the record's entry for the shape as a category, with sub-ty… 2
  48. Cat Tax n. ● Alive 2012– The obligation to post a photo of your cat when asking for anything — from Reddit in 2012 to the RedNote fortnight in January 2025, when Chinese user… 2
  49. Cat Vibing n. ◐ Dying 2020– A cat nodding in perfect time to a Finnish folk song played by a Turkish street musician — the vibing cat — which was the sound of autumn 2020 and th… 3
  50. Catfish n. ● Alive 2010– A person pretending to be someone else online, usually for romance — a catfish — from a 2010 documentary about one into a television series and a ver… 3
  51. Caught Feelings phr. ● Alive 2010– To develop feelings for someone you had agreed not to — 'caught feelings' — as if they were a cold, and the record's entry for the phrase that treats… 2
  52. Caught in 4K phr. ◐ Dying 2020– Caught, on camera, in high definition, with no way to deny it — usually with a screenshot and the 📸 emoji. The receipts of the 2020s, and the phrase… 2
  53. Cave Story n. ◐ Dying 2004– A robot boy with no memory wakes in a cave full of rabbit-like creatures called Mimigas and shoots his way toward an ending that depends on which peo… 4
  54. Cbat n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 A 2011 electronic instrumental with a distinctive lurching lead, which became briefly inescapable in 2022 after a Reddit post about someone's poor ch… 3
  55. CC0 abbr. ● Alive 2021– A licence that puts a work in the public domain, and the NFT movement — Nouns, Mfers, Goblintown, CrypToadz — that used it so anyone could copy, remi… 3
  56. Ceiling Cat n. ☠ Dead 2006–2011 A cat looking through a hole in a ceiling, captioned as God — 'Ceiling Cat is watching you' — as the lolcat era's deity, with Basement Cat as its dev… 3
  57. Celeste n. ◐ Dying 2018– A platformer about a young woman climbing a mountain while a purple version of herself argues she should stop, released in January 2018 and grown fro… 4
  58. Centaur (AI) n. ● Alive 1998– A human working with an AI as a team, dividing the labour along a clear line: the machine calculates, the person judges. Kasparov proposed the format… 4
  59. CEO of phr. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 The 2020 comment honorific — 'CEO of pointing at the camera', 'CEO of that one dance' — awarded to any creator who did one thing repeatedly. Descende… 3
  60. Cereal Guy n. ▲ Fossil 2008–2014 The rage-comic character who reads a newspaper, hears something implausible and sprays his breakfast across the panel. Emerged on 4chan around 2008 a… 3