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  1. E-Boy n. ◐ Dying 2019– The male counterpart of the e-girl — the e-boy — as a 2019 TikTok type made of chain necklaces, centre-parted curtains, painted nails, striped long s… 3
  2. E-Girl n. ◐ Dying 2019– A look built for a front-facing camera. Fading with the specific shade of pink and the specific platform that made it. 2
  3. e/acc abbr. ● Alive 2022– Effective accelerationism: the position that technology should move as fast as possible, that slowing AI is the real danger, and that the universe re… 4
  4. Early Access n. ● Alive 2013– Paying for a game before it is finished, as a model — some finished, some did not — and the phrase for anything sold as a promise. The record's entry… 3
  5. Eat One Rock a Day phr. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A search summary's advice that geologists recommend eating one small rock a day, sourced from a satirical article it did not recognise as satire. The… 2
  6. Ebola Emergency 2026 n. ● Alive 2026– The World Health Organization's declaration on 16 May 2026 that an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, caused by th… 2
  7. Eclectic Grandpa n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 An aesthetic of cardigans, loafers, corduroy and a hat you are too young for — the grandfather as fashion icon — predicted by Pinterest for 2024 and … 2
  8. Eclipse Europe 2026 n. ◐ Dying 2026– The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026, visible in parts of Europe and the first on the continental mainland since 1999, followed by a partial lun… 4
  9. Eco Round n. ● Alive 2004– A round in Counter-Strike (and later Valorant) in which a team buys nothing, or almost nothing, to save money for a full buy next round; and so the r… 3
  10. Edit Audio n. ● Alive 2021– A sped-up, bass-boosted or reverbed song fragment used as the soundtrack of a short fan edit — an edit audio — as the vocabulary of the 2021 onward g… 3
  11. Edit War n. ● Alive 2003– Two editors reverting each other's changes to a page until one gives up or is banned — the edit war — as Wikipedia's founding conflict, fought over t… 3
  12. Edit: Thanks for the Gold phr. ◐ Dying 2012– The edit appended to a comment that received a paid award — 'edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger' — as Reddit's most-mocked ritual, and the reco… 3
  13. Edmond de Belamy n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 A blurred portrait of a fictional gentleman in a dark coat, generated by a GAN, printed on canvas, signed with a fragment of the loss function, and s… 3
  14. Effective Altruism n. ● Alive 2011– A movement for doing the most good per pound, which began with bed nets and cost-effectiveness spreadsheets and, over a decade, moved much of its mon… 4
  15. Egg a Day Study n. ● Alive 2026– A study in the Journal of Nutrition, published 17 April 2026, finding that eating one egg a day was associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disea… 4
  16. Egg Prices n. ● Alive 2025– The early-2025 meme cycle about American eggs costing more than most things — 'egg prices' — with photos of empty shelves, a carton in a locked cabin… 3
  17. Ego Lift n. ● Alive 2014– Lifting more than you can for the people watching, with the form of a man falling over — the ego lift — and the genre of video that documents it. The… 2
  18. Eh (Canadian) interj. ● Alive 1990– 'Eh' — the Canadian tag that asks for agreement, that Canadians use less than the world thinks and more than they admit, and that the internet turned… 2
  19. El Mencho Operation n. ◐ Dying 2026– The military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, on 22 February 2026, in which 62 people were killed, including the leader of the Jalisco New Gene… 2
  20. El Niño 2026 n. ● Alive 2026– The El Niño event declared by NOAA on 11 June 2026 in the tropical Pacific, with a forecast 63 per cent chance that it would rank among the largest o… 2
  21. Elden Ring n. ● Alive 2022– FromSoftware's open-world Souls game, co-written with George R. R. Martin, released in February 2022 to a month in which the entire internet appeared… 4
  22. Elden Ring Discourse n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 The month after Elden Ring: the difficulty argument, the 'let me solo her' player in a jar helmet, the maps, the fingers, and the way the whole inter… 2
  23. Elden Ring DLC Difficulty n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The week in June 2024 when the internet argued about whether a video game was too hard, on a scale not seen since the last time, with a boss with a d… 3
  24. Elden Ring Nightreign n. ● Alive 2025– FromSoftware's co-op spin-off, released in May 2025, in which three players survive three days on a shrinking map and fight a boss on the third, and … 4
  25. Elder Emo n. ● Alive 2021– A person in their thirties who still knows every word to 'Welcome to the Black Parade' and has a mortgage — the elder emo — as the 2021 self-descript… 2
  26. ElevenLabs n. ● Alive 2023– The voice cloning and text-to-speech company whose beta opened in January 2023 and was used within days by 4chan to make celebrities read hateful thi… 3
  27. ElevenLabs 4chan Voice Cloning n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The week in January 2023 when a new voice-cloning service opened a free beta and 4chan users spent it producing clips of Emma Watson reading Mein Kam… 3
  28. Elf on the Shelf Discourse n. ● Alive 2012– The December argument about the surveillance doll, the parents who forgot to move it, and the increasingly elaborate scenes staged at midnight by peo… 3
  29. Elf.Tech n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Grimes's response to the AI cover wave: a public offer, days after the AI Drake song, to split royalties fifty-fifty with anyone who made a successfu… 3
  30. ELI5 abbr. ● Alive 2011– 'Explain like I'm five' — a request for a simple answer, from a subreddit that became a genre and a phrase used in meetings by people who are not fiv… 3
  31. Eliezer Yudkowsky n. ● Alive 2009– The self-taught researcher who founded the LessWrong forum in 2009, spent two decades arguing that a sufficiently capable AI would kill everyone, and… 3
  32. ELIZA n. ▲ Fossil 1966–1976 The 1966 program that turned your sentence into a question and handed it back, written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT to show how shallow such tricks we… 4
  33. ELIZA Effect n. ● Alive 1966– The tendency to read understanding into a program that has none, named after a 1966 chatbot that rephrased your statements as questions in the manner… 4
  34. Ellipsis (Ominous) n. ● Alive 2010– '…' — three dots, which older texters use as a pause and younger ones read as a threat: 'ok…' is an ending; 'see you tomorrow…' is a warning. The rec… 3
  35. Elo Hell n. ◐ Dying 2010– The rank a player believes they are trapped in by bad teammates rather than by their own play; named for the Elo rating system League of Legends used… 2
  36. Elon Musk (AI) n. ● Alive 2015– Musk in his AI role only: a co-founder and early funder of OpenAI in 2015, a departure from its board in 2018, a decade of public warnings that AI wa… 3
  37. Elon Musk Deepfake Livestream n. ◐ Dying 2024– A recurring YouTube scam in which a hijacked channel runs a looped deepfake of Elon Musk in a livestream, timed to a real product launch or rocket te… 3
  38. Elsagate n. ☠ Dead 2017–2019 The 2017 scandal over YouTube videos aimed at children — often featuring Elsa, Spider-Man and Peppa Pig — that contained violence, injections, pregna… 2
  39. ELVIS Act n. ● Alive 2024– Tennessee's law, signed by Bill Lee in a Nashville honky-tonk in March 2024, extending the state's right of publicity to cover a person's voice, incl… 3
  40. Em Dash Discourse n. ● Alive 2025– The theory that a dash proves a machine wrote it. Every writer who liked the dash has since been asked to prove they exist — including this one. 1
  41. Emad Mostaque n. ● Alive 2022– The former hedge-fund manager who founded Stability AI, funded the release of Stable Diffusion in August 2022 and became for a season the most visibl… 3
  42. Embedding n. ● Alive 2013– A list of numbers that stands for a word, sentence or image, arranged so that similar things end up near each other. The 2013 word2vec paper made the… 4
  43. Emergency Meeting phr. ◐ Dying 2018– The button in Among Us that halts the game so the crew can argue about who is the impostor, and from 2020 the phrase for any group chat suddenly conv… 2
  44. Emergent Abilities n. ● Alive 2022– Skills that appear suddenly when a model gets big enough, such as three-digit arithmetic or word unscrambling, absent at one size and present at the … 4
  45. Eminem–Snoop Ape Video n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 A music video in which Eminem and Snoop Dogg turn into their own Bored Apes and roam the Otherside, released in June 2022 and performed at the MTV Vi… 3
  46. Emmett Shear n. ● Alive 2023– The Twitch co-founder named interim chief executive of OpenAI on the night of Sunday 19 November 2023, who announced he would hire an investigator in… 3
  47. Emmys 2026 n. ● Alive 2026– The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on NBC in September 2026 from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles with Mariska Hargitay as host. An awards show… 3
  48. Emote (Twitch) n. ● Alive 2011– A small image posted in chat instead of a word — an emote — as Twitch's vocabulary, from Kappa and PogChamp into a language that streamers' audiences… 3
  49. Emote Dance n. ● Alive 2018– Any dance that exists mainly because it is in Fortnite — the floss, the griddy, the Orange Justice — and is performed in real life by children who le… 2
  50. Emotional Support Kangaroo n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The caption on the kangaroo-at-the-gate video — that it was a registered support animal being refused boarding — which was the part people believed h… 3
  51. Emotional Support Water Bottle n. ● Alive 2020– The enormous bottle carried everywhere as a comfort object as much as a vessel — the emotional support water bottle — named around 2020 and made a st… 3
  52. Encarta n. ☠ Dead 1993–2009 Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, launched in March 1993, which for a decade was where every homework essay came from, with its video clips, MindMaze … 3
  53. Endgame Early Screening n. ☠ Dead 2019–2019 The 2019 request from a terminally ill Marvel fan, known online as Alexander, to see Avengers: Endgame before its release, and the response: a Reddit… 3
  54. Ends n. ● Alive 2000– One's neighbourhood — 'my ends' — as the London slang word for home turf, and the record's entry for the geography of a postcode, which grime made a … 3
  55. Engagement Bait n. ● Alive 2017– A post designed to make you reply — 'tag a friend who', 'wrong answers only', a deliberate mistake — as named by a platform's own rules in 2017 and p… 3
  56. Engagement Farming n. ● Alive 2018– Posting whatever produces replies — polls, wrong opinions, 'name a better one', an image with an obvious mistake — to harvest engagement for reach or… 2
  57. ENS Names n. ● Alive 2017– Human-readable names ending in .eth that point to an Ethereum address, launched in 2017 and reissued as standard tokens in 2019, which made a domain … 3
  58. Enshittification n. ● Alive 2022– The three-act decay of a platform: good to users, then good to business customers, then good only to itself. A theory of death this dictionary uses c… 1
  59. Enshrouded n. ◐ Dying 2024– A co-op survival game with voxel building and a fog that must be crossed on a timer, released into early access in January 2024 the week after Palwor… 3
  60. Enter the Gungeon n. ◐ Dying 2016– A bullet-hell dungeon crawler in which the enemies are bullets with faces, the guns are jokes, and the goal is a gun that can kill the past. Made by … 4