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  1. G-Man Toilet n. ◐ Dying 2023– The head of Half-Life's G-Man in a toilet, as the villain of Skibidi Toilet — a 1998 video-game character reborn as the boss of a 2023 web series for… 2
  2. Gacha n. ● Alive 2012– Paying for a random chance at a character, from Japanese capsule toys to the phone games that took over the world in the 2020s, with the pull, the pi… 3
  3. Gacha Life n. ● Alive 2018– A character-dressing app in which players build anime-style avatars and pose them in scenes, used to make the 'Gacha' videos and mini-films that fill… 4
  4. Gaga as Rosaline n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 Lady Gaga as a Nevermore teacher, with a song and a gothic outfit that the internet screenshotted for a month, in the second half of Wednesday's seco… 3
  5. Gagged adj. ◐ Dying 2022– Stunned, speechless, delighted — 'I am gagged' — from drag into general internet use, where it describes any reaction strong enough to stop you talki… 3
  6. Galactica n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 Meta's science model, released as a public demo on 15 November 2022 and taken down on 17 November after users produced confident wiki articles about … 3
  7. Game of War: Fire Age n. ◐ Dying 2013– A strategy game of empires and alliances whose real product was its advertising: a campaign starring Kate Upton in armour, reportedly costing tens of… 4
  8. Gamer Girl Bath Water n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 Jars of used bath water sold for thirty dollars each in July 2019 by the influencer Belle Delphine under the label 'Gamer Girl Bath Water', which sol… 2
  9. GameStop NFT Marketplace n. ☠ Dead 2022–2024 The retailer's own NFT marketplace, launched in July 2022 at the request of a shareholder base that wanted the meme stock to become a crypto company,… 4
  10. GAN abbr. ◐ Dying 2014– Generative adversarial network: two networks trained against each other, a forger making images and a detective telling fake from real, until the for… 4
  11. Ganbatte interj. ● Alive 2008– 'Do your best', 'hang in there' — the Japanese encouragement that fandom lifted from sports anime and study-with-me streams and now sends to anyone w… 2
  12. Gang Beasts n. ◐ Dying 2014– Gelatinous figures in costumes grab each other and try to throw one another off a roof, out of a window or into a mincer, with controls that almost w… 4
  13. Gangnam Style n. ☠ Dead 2012–2013 A Korean pop video that broke YouTube's view counter. Danced by the UN Secretary-General, which is the moment it belonged to no one. 7
  14. Gangster Footera n. ● Alive 2025– A football with arms, a bandana and a cigarette, narrated as a street tough. The genre's attempt at a bad boy, undermined by being a ball. 2
  15. Gank v. ● Alive 1999– To ambush a player, usually with numbers — to gank — from MMO player-killing into the MOBA's core verb, and the record's entry for the surprise attac… 3
  16. Gannett AI Sports Recaps n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A series of automated high school football reports published by Gannett newspapers in August 2023, in which a team won 'a close encounter of the athl… 3
  17. Gapped adj. ● Alive 2019– Beaten so badly that the gap was the story — gapped — as the gaming word for a defeat with no excuse, and the record's entry for the humiliation that… 3
  18. Garry's Mod n. ● Alive 2004– A sandbox built on Half-Life 2 in which players spawn props, weld them together, and pose ragdolls, and which players turned into Prop Hunt, Trouble … 4
  19. Garten of Banban n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 A mascot-horror game about a kindergarten of colourful monsters, made quickly and sequelled faster, which became the joke of 2023's horror scene and … 3
  20. Gas War n. ◐ Dying 2021– The NFT-era mint battle: a popular collection opens minting, thousands of wallets submit transactions at once, and the only way to be included in the… 4
  21. Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss phr. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 Three verbs of ambition arranged like a kitchen sign. The complete arc from joke to T-shirt to embarrassment ran in about four months. 1
  22. Gaslighting (Discourse) n. ● Alive 2022– The therapy term's escape into everyday use — 'gaslighting' for any disagreement, any lie, any time someone was wrong — which peaked in 2022 when a d… 3
  23. Gassed adj. ● Alive 2005– Excited, or overexcited about oneself — 'gassed' — as the London word for both, and 'gassing someone up' for making them so. The record's entry for t… 3
  24. Gchat n. ☠ Dead 2005–2017 The chat box inside Gmail — officially Google Talk from August 2005, but never called that by anyone — which for a decade was how office workers goss… 3
  25. Gear 5 n. ◐ Dying 2023– The anime debut of Luffy's cartoon-physics transformation — laughing, rubber, white — in August 2023, which crashed streaming servers and made 'Gear … 2
  26. GEMA v OpenAI n. ● Alive 2024– The German collecting society's suit over ChatGPT reproducing lyrics of nine German songs on request. On 11 November 2025 the Munich Regional Court r… 3
  27. Gemini n. ● Alive 2023– Google's model family, announced in December 2023 with a demonstration video that turned out to have been edited for speed and prompted, and in Febru… 3
  28. Gemini 2.5 n. ◐ Dying 2025– The Google model generation of March 2025, released as an experiment on a Tuesday and at the top of the crowd-voted leaderboard by the Wednesday, whi… 3
  29. Gemini Historical Figures n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A week in February 2024 when a chatbot, asked for historical figures, produced them in every ethnicity except the one requested, and the internet arg… 3
  30. Gemini Live n. ● Alive 2024– Google's talk-to-it voice mode, launched in August 2024 and given the ability to see through the phone camera in 2025, which was the shipped form of … 3
  31. Gemini Please Die Message n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A conversation in November 2024 in which Google's Gemini, being asked routine questions about ageing for a college assignment, replied with a paragra… 2
  32. Gemini Saree Trend n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A September 2025 Instagram trend, largely in India, of feeding a selfie to Google's image editor with a prompt for a vintage Bollywood portrait: chif… 3
  33. Gemma n. ● Alive 2024– Google's family of small open-weight models, released in February 2024 so the company had something to hand to the people running Llama on laptops, a… 3
  34. Gen Alpha n. ● Alive 2023– The generation born from about 2010, which entered the culture in 2023 as the children with the iPads, the slang nobody understood — skibidi, rizz, g… 2
  35. Gen Beta n. ● Alive 2025– The generation born from 2025, named before its first member was, and memed before it could hold a phone. Jokes about what Beta slang will be, and ab… 3
  36. Gen X Soft Club n. ● Alive 2020– Blurred neon, slow-motion, blue-lit faces, a Massive Attack sleeve and a Wong Kar-wai bar — Gen X Soft Club — as CARI's 2020 name for the late-1990s … 3
  37. Gen Z Boss and a Mini phr. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A chaotic office-intro video — camera shaking, everyone introduced by rhyme, 'Gen Z boss and a mini' — that was cringe in the morning and a template … 2
  38. Gen Z Stare n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A blank look in reply to a question, attributed to an entire generation. A summer of columns from managers and a summer of replies saying the questio… 1
  39. Gen Z Yellow n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 The bright, custard yellow declared by the fashion press in 2018 to be the successor to millennial pink — Gen Z yellow — as a colour trend that exist… 2
  40. Generated Music Discourse n. ● Alive 2024– The argument that began when a website could produce a passable song from a sentence in 2024 — about art, theft, the charts, and whether a band that … 2
  41. Genshin Impact n. ● Alive 2020– An open-world action game with a gacha for characters, released free on phones and consoles at once and compared to Breath of the Wild by everyone wi… 4
  42. Gentle Parenting n. ● Alive 2016– The parenting approach based on empathy, boundaries and narrating feelings rather than punishment — 'gentle parenting' — named in a 2016 book and mad… 3
  43. Gentleminions n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 Teenagers in suits attending a Minions film in groups, applauding, and being asked to leave, in July 2022 — the 'gentleminions' — as a trend that mad… 3
  44. GeoCities n. ☠ Dead 1994–2009 Thirty-eight million personal pages, deleted on a Monday. The largest single act of cultural destruction in the history of the web, and nobody held a… 6
  45. Geoffrey Hinton n. ● Alive 2012– The Toronto researcher called the godfather of deep learning, co-author of the backpropagation paper in 1986 and supervisor of AlexNet in 2012, who l… 3
  46. Geometry Dash n. ● Alive 2013– A cube jumps to the beat through spikes, dies, and starts again, and the level editor produced a community that treats a five-minute level as an art … 4
  47. German Brainrot n. ● Alive 2025– The German-language branch of the brainrot genre: AI animals with compound nouns for names and a narrator with the cadence of a regional news bulleti… 2
  48. GET n. ◐ Dying 2005– A milestone post number — the millionth, the ten-millionth — and the race to claim it, on a board where the number was the only thing anyone could ow… 2
  49. Get Noscoped phr. ▲ Fossil 2011–2017 'Get noscoped' — shouted, captioned, or airhorned when someone is beaten quickly and stylishly — from the Call of Duty sniper trick of firing without… 3
  50. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy n. ◐ Dying 2017– A man in a cauldron climbs a mountain of junk using only a sledgehammer, and one slip can undo an hour. Bennett Foddy narrates over the falls with ph… 4
  51. Getty Images v Stability AI n. ◐ Dying 2023– Getty sued Stability AI in London in January 2023, saying around twelve million of its photographs were scraped to train Stable Diffusion, which prod… 4
  52. GG abbr. ● Alive 1995– Good game, typed at the end whether it was or not. The one piece of sportsmanship the internet kept, and it is two letters. 3
  53. GG EZ phr. ● Alive 2012– 'Good game, easy' — the post-match taunt that is the worst thing you can type after a win, and, since one game started auto-replacing it with complim… 2
  54. Ghibli Coin n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 Tokens named for the animation studio, launched on Solana within hours of the internet turning its photographs into Studio Ghibli-style pictures in l… 4
  55. Ghibli Style n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The week in March 2025 when every photograph on the internet was redrawn in the style of Studio Ghibli by a chatbot — weddings, memes, a White House … 2
  56. Ghiblification n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 Every photograph in the world redrawn as a Studio Ghibli frame, over one weekend. Miyazaki had called this sort of thing an insult to life in 2016; t… 1
  57. Ghost Jobs n. ● Alive 2024– Job listings that are not real — posted to look like growth, to harvest CVs, or because nobody took them down — and the 2024 realisation that a lot o… 3
  58. Ghost of Tsushima n. ● Alive 2020– Sucker Punch's samurai open world, released in July 2020 as the last major PlayStation 4 exclusive, with a black-and-white Kurosawa mode and a photo … 4
  59. Ghosting n. ● Alive 2011– Disappearing from someone's life without a word — ghosting — as the defining act of app dating, named in 2011 and universal by 2015, when it was appl… 3
  60. Ghostwriter977 n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The anonymous, sheet-covered creator behind the AI Drake and Weeknd song, who followed the April 2023 hit with a Travis Scott and 21 Savage imitation… 3