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  1. F4F abbr. ◐ Dying 2011– 'Follow for follow' — the offer to exchange followers, with 'L4L' for likes and 'S4S' for shoutouts, as the currency of early Instagram. The record's… 3
  2. Face Reveal n. ● Alive 2011– The video in which a creator who has shown only a voice, an avatar or a mask finally shows their face — a face reveal — as the YouTube milestone that… 2
  3. FaceApp Challenge n. ☠ Dead 2019–2019 A week in July 2019 when every celebrity and most of your contacts posted a photograph of themselves aged by forty years, using a neural-network filt… 4
  4. Facebook Mom n. ● Alive 2016– A mother who posts Minion memes, tags her children in things, comments 'so proud' on strangers' posts and shares a scam about a lost dog — the type, … 2
  5. Facebook Slop Study n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A March 2024 study of more than a hundred Facebook pages posting AI-generated images, which found that they collectively drew hundreds of millions of… 3
  6. Fact-Check v. ● Alive 2003– To verify a claim against the record, and to publish the result with a rating — fact-check — a newsroom practice that became a genre in 2003, a websi… 2
  7. Facts interj. ● Alive 2015– 'Facts' — agreement stated as a verdict — with 'big facts', 'straight facts' and 'facts, no printer' as its intensifiers, the last meaning the facts … 3
  8. FAIL interj. ☠ Dead 2003–2011 A single word stamped on a picture of something going wrong. Ran an entire blog empire and was finished when television presenters began saying epic … 3
  9. Fail Whale n. ☠ Dead 2007–2013 A whale carried by birds, shown whenever Twitter was down, which was often. Retired when the site became reliable, which was briefly the case. 0
  10. Fair Launch n. ● Alive 2023– A launch with no pre-sale, no insiders and no allocation — everyone starts at zero — as a claim, made by every mascot in 2024, and true of a few. The… 2
  11. Fairy Grunge n. ☠ Dead 2021–2023 Fairycore in torn tights — fairy grunge — as the 2021 TikTok aesthetic that put wings and woodland on top of 1990s grunge and 2014 Tumblr soft grunge… 3
  12. Fairycore n. ◐ Dying 2020– Wings, moss, glitter, a dress made of what looks like leaves, and a forest you photographed from your garden. Cottagecore's younger sister, from the … 3
  13. Faith: The Unholy Trinity n. ● Alive 2022– A horror game about a priest and an exorcism drawn in the style of an Atari 2600, with rotoscoped animation for its monsters and a synthesised voice … 3
  14. Fake Body phr. ◐ Dying 2021– The caption '#fakebody' or 'fake body!!' added to swimsuit and gym videos from 2021, in the belief that declaring the body fictional would stop TikTo… 2
  15. Fake Giveaway n. ● Alive 2012– A post promising a car, a console or a doubled deposit if you like, share and follow — the fake giveaway — a Facebook page-farming trick from 2012 th… 3
  16. Fake News n. ◐ Dying 2016– Fabricated news stories built for shares — fake news — a phrase that briefly meant something precise in late 2016 and was, within months, taken up as… 2
  17. Falcon n. ◐ Dying 2023– The open model from Abu Dhabi that topped the Hugging Face leaderboard in May 2023, to general surprise, and returned in September with a 180 billion… 3
  18. Fall Guys n. ◐ Dying 2020– Sixty jellybeans in an obstacle course, in August 2020, which was the game everyone played for a month during the pandemic summer and the reason 'fal… 3
  19. Fallout 76 n. ↺ Undead 2018–2019 Bethesda's online Fallout, released in November 2018 with no human characters, a great many bugs and a collector's edition whose canvas bag arrived i… 4
  20. Fam n. ◐ Dying 2014– Friends addressed as family. Fading in public use, though still the standard vocative of the man selling you a phone case. 3
  21. Family Guy Running Down Stairs n. ● Alive 2026– A clip of the Griffin family thundering down the basement stairs, used for any group fleeing anything: a meeting that ended early, a rumour of free p… 2
  22. Famous Fox Federation n. ◐ Dying 2021– Seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven cartoon foxes on Solana that outlasted their own hype by becoming infrastructure: the team's raffle an… 3
  23. Fan Cam n. ◐ Dying 2019– A short edit of a celebrity, set to music, posted in reply to anything — a news story, a funeral, a maths question — by stan accounts in 2019–20, and… 2
  24. Fan War n. ● Alive 2010– A conflict between fandoms — over charts, awards, or nothing — conducted in replies and hashtags, as the stan internet's national sport. The record's… 2
  25. Fanchant n. ● Alive 2008– The synchronised shout of members' names and phrases at set points in a K-pop song — the fanchant — a Korean concert tradition that international fan… 3
  26. Fancy Like n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 Country singer Walker Hayes and his teenage daughter dancing to his song about a date night at Applebee's, posted in June 2021, which became a Number… 2
  27. Fanfic n. ● Alive 1995– Fiction written by fans about someone else's characters — fanfic — from 1960s zines into the internet's largest body of writing, and the record's ent… 3
  28. Fanon n. ● Alive 2000– Something so widely believed by fans that it feels official and is not — fanon — as the collective headcanon, and the record's entry for the facts th… 3
  29. Fantage n. ☠ Dead 2008–2018 A browser world of anime-style avatars, a boardwalk of shops, a level system based on wearing items and a premium membership. The record's entry for … 4
  30. Fantasy Football n. ● Alive 1997– The game of drafting real NFL players onto an imaginary roster and scoring their weekly stats — invented in Oakland in 1962, put online by CBS and Ya… 3
  31. Fanum Tax n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Taking a portion of a friend's food, named after a streamer who did. Died when it appeared in a middle-school teacher's Gen Alpha glossary, printed a… 5
  32. FarmVille n. ☠ Dead 2009–2020 A farm that sent notifications to your friends when your crops needed them. Eighty million players at peak; died the day Flash did, unmourned by the … 3
  33. Fartcoin n. ● Alive 2024– A joke suggested by an AI — Truth Terminal — about hot air having value, taken literally by a crowd until it did. The name is the whole meme; the rec… 3
  34. Fate/Grand Order n. ● Alive 2015– A gacha role-playing game in which historical and mythological figures are summoned as servants, with pull rates that became a genre-wide cautionary … 4
  35. Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 n. ◐ Dying 2016– A Kanye West track from The Life of Pablo that opens with Metro Boomin's producer tag, 'If Young Metro don't trust you I'm gonna shoot ya', followed … 3
  36. FE!N interj. ◐ Dying 2023– The word 'fiend', shouted about forty times in a row on a 2023 Travis Scott track and then shouted about forty times in a row by everyone at every co… 3
  37. Fear & Hunger n. ● Alive 2018– A dungeon role-playing game of extreme cruelty made in RPG Maker by one Finnish developer, released in December 2018 to a few thousand players and, a… 3
  38. Fediverse n. ● Alive 2018– The federated universe of servers that talk to each other — Mastodon, and its cousins — as the name for the social internet that nobody owns, which e… 3
  39. Feeding v. ● Alive 2009– Dying repeatedly to the enemy, making them stronger — feeding — as the MOBA's worst crime and the word for anyone helping the other side by being bad… 3
  40. Feel Like a Sir phr. ☠ Dead 2011–2015 The rage face in a top hat and monocle, captioned 'Feel like a sir', used from 2011 whenever a comic's narrator did something faintly dignified — usi… 2
  41. Feel the AGI phr. ● Alive 2023– A chant Ilya Sutskever was reported to have led at OpenAI events, described in a November 2023 Atlantic account of the company's culture along with a… 3
  42. Feels n. ● Alive 2010– Emotions, as a plural noun — 'the feels', 'right in the feels' — from the board that invented the wojak to describe them. The record's entry for the … 2
  43. FeelsBadMan n. ● Alive 2015– A sad Pepe, and the phrase — 'feels bad, man' — from the Boy's Club comic into a Twitch emote and the internet's most-used expression of mild disappo… 3
  44. Fei-Fei Li n. ● Alive 2009– The Stanford professor who built ImageNet, the 14-million-image dataset released in 2009 whose 2012 contest result set off the deep-learning decade, … 3
  45. Fell Off phr. ● Alive 2016– To have declined from a peak — 'he fell off' — as the internet's verdict on anyone who is not what they were, and the middle term of the 'L + ratio +… 3
  46. Fellow Kids phr. ● Alive 2014– A brand or an adult trying too hard to sound young. The GIF is from 2012 and the situation is from every quarter since. 7
  47. Felt interj. ● Alive 2019– 'Felt' — 'I felt that', compressed — as the reply to a sentence that landed emotionally, and the record's entry for the past tense of 'same', which i… 2
  48. Female Manipulator Music n. ☠ Dead 2021–2023 Fiona Apple, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, Mazzy Star and anything a girl might listen to while writing a text she should not send — female manipulator music… 3
  49. Femcel n. ● Alive 2018– The female incel — first as a serious forum term, then, by 2022, as a TikTok aesthetic of sad girls with a specific book and a specific eyeliner. The… 3
  50. Feral adj. ● Alive 2022– Wild, unrestrained, loud — 'going feral' — as the 2022 word for enthusiasm without dignity: a fandom, a night out, a reaction to a trailer. The recor… 3
  51. Feral Girl Summer n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 The rejection of the clean girl: no routine, no skincare, out until four, a kebab. Summer 2022's aesthetic for people who found 'that girl' exhaustin… 2
  52. Fergie Time n. ● Alive 1993– Stoppage time that seems to stretch when a big club needs a goal, named for Alex Ferguson's Manchester United of the 1990s and 2000s and the late win… 3
  53. Ferran Torres 106th Minute n. ● Alive 2026– The only goal of the 2026 World Cup final, scored by Ferran Torres in the 106th minute of extra time to beat Argentina 1–0 and give Spain a second ti… 3
  54. Ferrari Strategy n. ● Alive 2019– The internet's name for whatever Ferrari's pit wall decides — 'Ferrari strategy', 'strategy masterclass', 'we are checking' — a genre of meme with it… 2
  55. Feta Pasta n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 Bake a block of feta in a dish of cherry tomatoes, stir into pasta, film it: the recipe that emptied Finnish supermarkets of feta in 2019 and America… 3
  56. Few Understand phr. ◐ Dying 2021– 'Few understand this' — the sign-off of a post that explained nothing, which implied a secret and delivered a chart. The 2021 phrase for being early,… 2
  57. Few-Shot adj. ● Alive 2020– Getting a model to do a task by showing it a handful of examples in the prompt, with no training at all. The GPT-3 paper in 2020 put the phrase in it… 4
  58. FEWOCiOUS n. ● Alive 2021– Victor Langlois, a teenage artist from Las Vegas painting loud, autobiographical figures about growing up trans, who became the youngest artist sold … 3
  59. Fez n. ◐ Dying 2012– A two-dimensional platformer that rotates into three dimensions, with a language and number system hidden in its backgrounds for players to decode. F… 4
  60. FFS abbr. ● Alive 2000– 'For f***'s sake' — British exasperation in three letters, typed about trains, weather and referees since about 2000, and the record's entry for the … 3