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  1. H100 n. ● Alive 2022– Nvidia's Hopper-generation data-centre GPU, announced in March 2022 and, for two years, the single most wanted object in technology: the chip the lar… 3
  2. Haaland Majin Buu n. ● Alive 2026– Erling Haaland at the 2026 World Cup, compared frame-for-frame to Majin Buu — the pink, cheerful, unstoppable thing from Dragon Ball. Football's tour… 3
  3. Habbo Hotel n. ◐ Dying 2000– A pixel hotel where teenagers stood in rooms and talked. Blocked the pool in a famous raid, blocked chat in a famous panic, and is still, remarkably,… 1
  4. Habibi n. ● Alive 2015– 'My darling', 'my dear' — the Arabic endearment, used to friends and strangers, that meme culture adopted in the mid-2010s as a general 'buddy' and t… 3
  5. Hades n. ● Alive 2020– A roguelike in which the son of the Greek underworld's king tries repeatedly to leave home and is told off by his father each time he dies, released … 3
  6. Hades II n. ● Alive 2024– The sequel to Hades, with Zagreus's sister Melinoë as the hero, released into early access with almost no notice in May 2024 and passing a hundred th… 3
  7. Haggis the Hippo n. ◐ Dying 2024– A pygmy hippo born at Edinburgh Zoo a month after Moo Deng became famous, and immediately cast as her Scottish rival. The zoo leaned in; the internet… 3
  8. Haha vs Lol n. ● Alive 2010– The hierarchy of typed laughter — 'haha' is warm, 'ha' is cold, 'hahaha' is sincere, 'lol' is punctuation, 'LOL' is sarcasm — as codified by a 2015 F… 3
  9. Half-Life n. ▲ Fossil 1998–2004 A physicist with a crowbar, a tram ride instead of a cutscene, and a story told without taking the controls away. Valve's first game, built on a lice… 4
  10. Half-Life 3 Confirmed phr. ◐ Dying 2011– The meme of finding proof of Valve's unannounced sequel in anything containing the number three — a logo, a receipt, a delay — after Half-Life 2: Epi… 3
  11. Hallucinate (Verb) v. ● Alive 2023– To make something up confidently, of a machine — and, from 2024, of a person: 'he hallucinated that deadline'. The record has the noun; this is the v… 2
  12. Hallucination n. ● Alive 2022– A confident false statement by a machine. The term the field chose, and the term the field has regretted, because it makes the machine sound like it … 3
  13. Halo 2 n. ☠ Dead 2004–2010 The sequel that made Xbox Live: matchmaking, party chat, a ranking system, and a midnight launch reported as the biggest entertainment opening of any… 4
  14. Halo Infinite n. ◐ Dying 2020– 343 Industries' Halo, shown in July 2020 in a gameplay demo whose flat-faced Brute was named Craig by the internet within the hour, delayed a year, a… 4
  15. Halo: Combat Evolved n. ▲ Fossil 2001–2004 The launch game that justified the Xbox: a console shooter with a working control scheme, a two-weapon limit, a warthog and sixteen-player LAN via sy… 4
  16. Halo: The Master Chief Collection n. ↺ Undead 2014–2015 Microsoft's 2014 compilation of four Halo games, whose online matchmaking failed at launch and stayed broken for months, prompting an apology, a free… 4
  17. Hamster Dance n. ☠ Dead 1998–2001 Rows of animated hamsters and a sped-up Roger Miller loop. Made to win a bet about traffic between friends, then made into a novelty single, which is… 0
  18. Hangry adj. ● Alive 2014– Angry because hungry. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018 and survived the honour, which puts it in a very small club. 7
  19. Happy Birthday Daniel phr. ◐ Dying 2026– An edit format in which an increasingly unhinged sequence of clips is revealed to be a birthday tribute to someone called Daniel. Nobody knows Daniel… 2
  20. Happy Black History Month phr. ● Alive 2012– The greeting that opens February on the American internet, and the annual meme cycle that comes with it: the celebratory posts, the reaction images, … 4
  21. Happy Black History Month (Video) n. ● Alive 2025– The fight-week interview clip in which Nina-Marie Daniele, the UFC's roving interviewer known online as Nina Drama, wishes Dricus du Plessis a happy … 4
  22. Happy Wheels n. ◐ Dying 2010– A browser physics game in which a man on a Segway, a father on a bicycle with a child seat, and a pensioner in a wheelchair ride user-made obstacle c… 4
  23. Harambe n. ☠ Dead 2016–2016 A gorilla shot by a zoo, mourned first sincerely and then in a way that was not. The first meme where the irony had a body count of one and everyone … 7
  24. Hard Launch n. ● Alive 2021– Posting your partner's face, name and tag — the full reveal — after the soft launch's hand and shoulder. The record has the soft launch; this is the … 2
  25. Hard Stop n. ● Alive 2010– 'I have a hard stop at three' — a meeting that must end on time, said at the start of one that will not — as the corporate phrase that is also a plea… 3
  26. Harlem Shake n. ☠ Dead 2013–2013 One person dancing, then everyone dancing, then a cut. The first meme to complete its entire life cycle inside a single financial quarter. 1
  27. Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash n. ▲ Fossil 2017–2018 A three-page chapter of Harry Potter produced in December 2017 by writers using a predictive keyboard trained on the seven novels, with Ron eating He… 3
  28. Harry Potter by Balenciaga n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A one-minute video in which gaunt, high-cheekboned versions of the Harry Potter cast strut in leather and sunglasses to a slowed house track, saying … 3
  29. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery n. ● Alive 2018– A story game in which the player attends Hogwarts as a new student, with an energy meter that runs out mid-scene and asks for money to continue. The … 4
  30. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite n. ☠ Dead 2019–2022 A location game from the makers of Pokémon Go in which players walked around real streets returning magical objects to the wizarding world. The recor… 4
  31. HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 A name assembled from four unrelated things and a suffix, as a parody of every mascot name of the era, which then became exactly what it parodied. Th… 3
  32. Hasbulla n. ◐ Dying 2021– A small man from Dagestan with a big personality, a lot of cars and a friendship with fighters, who became the internet's favourite person of 2021 an… 3
  33. Hashmasks n. ◐ Dying 2021– Sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-four portraits by seventy artists, sold in January 2021 for a reported $16 million within days, before the … 3
  34. Hashtag n. ● Alive 2007– A word with a hash in front of it, proposed by a user and initially rejected by the company. Now spoken aloud by people who have never used one. 6
  35. Haters Gonna Hate phr. ◐ Dying 2010– The caption under any image of someone strutting, from 2010 onwards, dismissing criticism as the natural product of people who hate. Originates in ra… 3
  36. Haul n. ● Alive 2008– Showing the camera what you bought — the bags, the try-on, the price — as a YouTube genre from 2008 that became a TikTok genre and then, with the fas… 3
  37. Havana n. ◐ Dying 2017– A slow-burning single named after Havana, where the singer was born, which climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the first song b… 3
  38. Have Fun Staying Poor phr. ◐ Dying 2021– The reply to any sceptic during a boom — a dismissal that aged exactly as well as the boom did. Used sincerely in 2021, ironically from 2022, and now… 3
  39. Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again phr. ● Alive 2006– The IT department's only question, from a 2006 sitcom into the universal first step, and the record's entry for the advice that is mocked and always … 2
  40. Hawak Mo ang Beat n. ● Alive 2026– A song by OPM Music Studio, first released in 2025, which became hugely popular across social media in the Philippines in 2026, driving dance challen… 4
  41. Hawk Tuah n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A street-interview answer that made a woman famous for one onomatopoeia. Lasted six months, survived a podcast launch, and died the day her cryptocur… 4
  42. Hawk Tuah Rug n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The Hawk Tuah girl's mascot, launched in December 2024 and collapsed the same evening, taking her brief goodwill with it. The record files it as the … 3
  43. Haxor n. ☠ Dead 1997–2008 'Hacker', in leetspeak — 'h4x0r' — as the late-1990s word for a skilled computer user, said with admiration or contempt depending on whether they had… 3
  44. Hay Day n. ● Alive 2012– A farm game of crops, animals and a roadside shop, played on a slower clock than almost anything on a phone. The record's entry for where FarmVille's… 4
  45. Hayden Davis Interview n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 An interview given days after the Libra token's collapse by Hayden Davis, chief executive of Kelsier Ventures which launched it. He said he controlle… 2
  46. Hazbin Hotel n. ● Alive 2024– An animated musical about a hotel in Hell, which went from a YouTube pilot to a streaming series in January 2024 and brought with it the loudest fand… 3
  47. HBD abbr. ● Alive 2008– 'Happy birthday' — the acronym of the Facebook wall, where from about 2008 the notification prompted three letters from people who had not spoken to … 3
  48. He Is 20 Years Old phr. ● Alive 2026– A reaction to the media's inability to write a sentence about Kane Parsons — the Backrooms creator who directed the feature film — without reminding … 3
  49. Headcanon n. ● Alive 2007– Something you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that made private reading a public position. 2
  50. Healing Era n. ◐ Dying 2022– The period after the villain era: journaling, therapy speak, a walk, a caption about growth. The 2022–23 era everyone announced and few completed. Th… 2
  51. Health Goth n. ☠ Dead 2013–2015 Black sportswear worn as an aesthetic rather than for sport. Died of a trend piece, like all aesthetics with a portmanteau for a name. 0
  52. Hear Me Out Cake n. ● Alive 2023– The party game where each guest brings a cardboard cut-out of a character or object they find, against their better judgement, attractive, plants it … 2
  53. Heardle n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 Wordle for songs — guess the track from the intro — which was the second-best morning ritual of 2022, was bought by a streaming company, and was shut… 2
  54. Hearthstone n. ◐ Dying 2014– A Warcraft-themed digital card game, made by a small Blizzard team, that became the biggest card game on Twitch in 2015 and the model for every digit… 4
  55. Heated Rivalry n. ● Alive 2025– A Canadian hockey romance series that arrived in November 2025 and became the winter's obsession — the memes, the edits, the fanfiction, the 'I don't… 3
  56. Heckin adv. ◐ Dying 2016– 'Very', in DoggoLingo — 'a heckin good boy' — as the intensifier for animal captions, and the record's entry for the swear word softened until it cou… 3
  57. Heel Turn n. ● Alive 1996– A wrestling good guy becoming a bad guy — the heel turn — the oldest trick in the business, made canonical by Hulk Hogan joining the nWo on 7 July 19… 3
  58. Heightmaxxing n. ◐ Dying 2024– Attempting to get taller — insoles, posture, a surgery that breaks the legs — as a looksmaxxing goal, and the joke about it: 'heightmaxxing' as a cap… 2
  59. Heinz AI Ketchup n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 The first major brand campaign built on an image model: Heinz asked DALL-E 2 to draw 'ketchup' and found that the output resembled its own bottle, th… 3
  60. Hejaz Railway Revival n. ◐ Dying 2026– The agreement signed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia on 9 June 2026 to revive the Hejaz railway, the nineteenth-century line that once ran from Damascus t… 2