Give Up Internet!
/ = SEARCH Play ▶ Random record ☠
DICTIONARY/ A–Z/J

Records in J

Letter by letter, 60 at a time

Era finder · pick a year
858687888990919293949596979899000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223242526
All Alive Dying Dead Undead Fossil
A–Z Newest Oldest Most entries
  1. Jackbox Party Pack n. ● Alive 2014– A bundle of party games played on one screen with everyone's phone as the controller, from the Chicago studio that made You Don't Know Jack. First re… 4
  2. Jailbreak v. ◐ Dying 2007– To break an iPhone out of Apple's restrictions so it can run software from outside the App Store — first done within days of the iPhone's July 2007 l… 2
  3. Jailbreak (AI) n. ● Alive 2022– A prompt that talks a model out of its training: a roleplay, a hypothetical, a grandmother reading napalm recipes as bedtime stories. The word came f… 4
  4. Jailbreak (Roblox) n. ● Alive 2017– A Roblox cops-and-robbers game in which prisoners break out, rob banks and trains, and police chase them across a small open world. The record's entr… 4
  5. Jailstool n. ◐ Dying 2025– A coin launched by Dave Portnoy on Pump.fun in January 2025, whose market value reached a reported $250 million on the strength of his posts. He sold… 2
  6. Jajaja interj. ● Alive 1998– The Spanish typed laugh — 'ja' being 'ha' — which anglophones first met in mixed chatrooms, misread as 'jah-jah-jah', and eventually understood as th… 3
  7. Jan Leike n. ● Alive 2023– The alignment researcher who co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever from July 2023, when the company promised the effort 20 per cent… 3
  8. Japa v. ● Alive 2018– To leave the country — the Yoruba word for running away, made a slogan by a 2018 song and then, from about 2021, the name of a whole Nigerian emigrat… 2
  9. Japan Footsteps Copypasta n. ● Alive 2026– A wall of text claiming Japan converts commuters' footsteps into electricity, escalating into implausible engineering detail with the confidence of a… 2
  10. Japandi n. ● Alive 2016– Japanese minimalism plus Scandinavian hygge — Japandi — as the interior style that dominated Pinterest and every rental listing from about 2020: pale… 3
  11. Japanese www n. ● Alive 2000– 'www' — the Japanese internet's laugh, from 'warau', where each w is a ha and a row of them looks like grass, so that '草' (grass) is now also a laug… 2
  12. JASON (Jason Derulo) n. ◐ Dying 2024– Jason Derulo's token, launched on Solana in June 2024 with the same promoter as the Jenner coin. Within a day Derulo said the promoter had taken the … 2
  13. Jax, Look, I Know We Don't Get Along phr. ● Alive 2026– A template from The Amazing Digital Circus: a character opens with 'Jax, look, I know we don't get along, but…' and then delivers information that ha… 3
  14. Jeff the Land Shark n. ● Alive 2024– A small shark with legs who swallows enemies whole and spits them off the map, from a 2018 comic and a 2024 game, who became the winter's most-clippe… 3
  15. Jejemon n. ☠ Dead 2010–2013 A Filipino subculture of 2010 — named for its 'jejeje' laugh — that wrote in a maximal SMS style ('eOw pHoW', numbers for letters, random capitals) a… 2
  16. Jelly Sandals n. ◐ Dying 2024– Translucent plastic sandals from the 1990s, returned in 2024 to a lot of adults who remembered the blisters and bought them anyway. The record's entr… 3
  17. Jellycat n. ● Alive 2023– The London soft-toy brand — a smiling aubergine, a bashful bunny, a croissant with a face — turned by TikTok from a nursery gift into a 2023–24 adult… 3
  18. JENNER n. ◐ Dying 2024– A token announced from Caitlyn Jenner's X account in May 2024, initially assumed to be a hack until she confirmed it on video. It reached a reported … 2
  19. Jensen Huang n. ● Alive 1993– Nvidia's co-founder and only chief executive, born in Taiwan, who washed dishes at Denny's as a teenager, started the company at one in 1993 and by 2… 3
  20. Jensen's Leather Jacket n. ● Alive 2016– The black leather jacket Jensen Huang wears to every keynote, every interview and, by public accounts, every visit to a Taiwanese night market, which… 3
  21. Jeo Boden n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The misspelt Joe Biden coin on Solana, launched in March 2024 as the counterpart to Doland Tremp and traded, with a straight face, as a proxy for his… 4
  22. Jesse Pollak Discourse n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The week in April 2025 when Coinbase's Base network posted a 'Base is for everyone' image to Zora, the platform minted it as a tradeable token, the t… 4
  23. Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams phr. ◐ Dying 2015– The line from 9/11 conspiracy theories — that jet fuel burns too cool to melt steel — quoted from about 2015 as a punchline for any bad argument, usu… 3
  24. Jet2 Holiday phr. ◐ Dying 2025– 'Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday' — a budget airline's cheerful advert audio, laid over footage of holidays going catastrophically wrong: camels attacki… 2
  25. Jetpack Joyride n. ◐ Dying 2011– A man called Barry Steakfries steals a machine-gun jetpack from a laboratory and flies right through it until he hits a laser. Released in September … 4
  26. JFC abbr. ● Alive 2005– 'Jesus f***ing Christ' — exasperation with a blasphemy, compressed, and the record's entry for the acronym reserved for news that is beyond 'wtf'. Fi… 2
  27. Jiggle Jiggle n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 'My money don't jiggle jiggle, it folds' — a rap Louis Theroux improvised on a 2000 episode of Weird Weekends, autotuned by producers Duke & Jones in… 3
  28. Jim Carrey in The Shining n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 The deepfake that made the format look like a craft: Jim Carrey's face on Jack Nicholson through the axe scene of The Shining, so convincing that the… 3
  29. Jimothy n. ● Alive 2026– A wild raccoon from Seattle's Ballard neighbourhood with short-spine syndrome, which gives him the silhouette of a furry sphere. A backyard video in … 2
  30. JJK Ending Discourse n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The final chapter of Jujutsu Kaisen, and the internet's week of deciding it was rushed, fine, or a betrayal, with the author's health cited by all si… 3
  31. JK abbr. ● Alive 1998– 'Just kidding' — the retraction that follows a joke that might not have landed, from AIM to the present, and 'jk jk' for a retraction that needs insi… 2
  32. JK Wedding Entrance Dance n. ▲ Fossil 2009–2013 A wedding party dancing up the aisle to Chris Brown's Forever instead of processing to it. Reported at 1.75 million views in under five days in 2009,… 3
  33. Job Hugging n. ● Alive 2025– Clinging to a job you do not like because the market is worse. The consultancy word for a very old feeling, coined in August 2025 and adopted immedia… 2
  34. Joe Mama phr. ◐ Dying 2019– 'Don't say it — who's Joe?' — the 2019 revival of the 'your mama' setup as a trap: someone mentions Joe, someone asks who Joe is, and the answer is J… 3
  35. Joe Rogan AI Ads n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A TikTok advert in February 2023 in which a cloned Joe Rogan, over real podcast footage, recommends a libido supplement to a cloned guest, complete w… 3
  36. John Schulman n. ● Alive 2015– An OpenAI co-founder, the author of the reinforcement-learning algorithm PPO and the researcher whose team did the post-training work that turned a t… 3
  37. Johnny Cash Barbie Girl n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 An AI-voiced Johnny Cash singing Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' as a mournful country ballad, made by a musician who performs the arrangements himself and uses… 3
  38. Joker 2 Flop n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A sequel to a billion-dollar film that was a musical, mostly, and was received by its own fandom as a betrayal and by the internet as a case study. T… 2
  39. JOMO abbr. ◐ Dying 2018– 'Joy of missing out' — the wellness industry's 2018 answer to FOMO, for people who had decided that staying in was a practice. The record's entry for… 3
  40. Jorts n. ● Alive 2023– Jean shorts, long and baggy, rehabilitated in 2023 from a dad joke to the summer's shorts, and worn by everyone under thirty by 2024. The record's en… 2
  41. Joseph Ducreux n. ☠ Dead 2009–2014 An eighteenth-century self-portrait of the French painter Joseph Ducreux, pointing and smirking, captioned from 2009 with rap lyrics rewritten in arc… 2
  42. Josh Kerr's Mile n. ● Alive 2026– The mile world record set by British runner Josh Kerr at the London Athletics Meet on 18 July 2026: 3:42.66, beating Hicham El Guerrouj's mark, which… 4
  43. Journey (Thatgamecompany) n. ◐ Dying 2012– A robed figure walks toward a mountain across a desert, and partway through another player appears who can only communicate by chirping. Released on … 4
  44. JPEG (NFT) n. ● Alive 2021– The NFT market's word for itself when it was being honest, and its critics' word for it when they were not being kind: 'you paid a million for a JPEG… 3
  45. Jugaad n. ● Alive 2009– An ingenious, improvised, slightly alarming fix — the Hindi word for making it work with what is there, which Indian internet celebrates in photo thr… 2
  46. Juju on That Beat n. ☠ Dead 2016–2018 A song and dance made by two Detroit teenagers, spread through the #TZAnthem Challenge as people filmed themselves attempting the moves. It reached n… 3
  47. Jump King n. ☠ Dead 2019–2021 A platformer in which the only move is a jump charged by holding a button, and a single misjudged one can fall through several screens of progress, r… 3
  48. Jungle (MOBA) n. ● Alive 2006– The forest between the lanes of a MOBA map, and the role of the player who farms its monsters and ambushes lanes from it; 'jungling' was a DotA term … 3
  49. Jupiter JUP Airdrop n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 Solana's largest airdrop of the year: around one billion JUP tokens, reported at 10 per cent of supply, claimable from 31 January 2024 by roughly 955… 4
  50. Jury Duty (Ronald) n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A reality show in which one man believed he was on a real jury and everyone else was an actor, and the man — Ronald — turned out to be so decent that… 3
  51. Just Chatting n. ● Alive 2018– Twitch's category for streams with no game — a person talking — which became the platform's most-watched category, beating every game. The record's e… 3
  52. Just Checking In phr. ● Alive 2015– 'Just checking in' — the email that means 'you have not replied', softened until it sounds like care, and the record's entry for the follow-up that i… 3
  53. Just Looking Like a Wow phr. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 A Delhi boutique owner's live sales pitch — 'so beautiful, so elegant, just looking like a wow' — clipped in late 2023 and repeated by Bollywood, cri… 2
  54. Just Put the Fries in the Bag phr. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 An instruction to stop talking and do your job, delivered to anyone who had shared too much. Harsh, useful, and worn out within the year. 0
  55. Just the Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) n. ● Alive 2026– The resurgence in 2026 of Milky's 2002 song Just the Way You Are, driven by a remix from the Australian DJ Mall Grab that went viral on TikTok and by… 4
  56. Just Walk Out Workers n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The April 2024 report that Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' shops, where cameras were said to tally what you took so you could skip the till, relied on aroun… 3