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  1. K-pop Stans Tulsa Rally n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 The June 2020 episode in which K-pop fans and TikTok teenagers reserved tickets for Donald Trump's Tulsa rally with no intention of going, so that a … 3
  2. K. n. ● Alive 2005– The single letter reply — 'k' — that means 'I have read this and I am not happy', with a full stop for those who want to be sure. The record's entry … 3
  3. K/D Ratio n. ● Alive 2004– Kills divided by deaths — the number by which shooter players have measured their worth since Halo 2 and Call of Duty began tracking it in the mid-20… 2
  4. Kabosu n. ☠ Dead 2010–2024 The Shiba Inu in the Doge photograph, rescued from a shelter by Atsuko Sato in Sakura, Japan, and photographed in 2010 with the sidelong look that be… 2
  5. Kadrey v Meta n. ◐ Dying 2023– The authors' case over training Llama on books, including from shadow libraries, which produced the second fair-use ruling of June 2025. Judge Vince … 3
  6. Kai Cenat Union Square n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A streamer announced a giveaway in a park; thousands came; the park did not survive it. The record's entry for the day a livestream audience became a… 2
  7. Kai-Fu Lee n. ● Alive 2018– The former head of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia whose 2018 book 'AI Superpowers' argued that China would match the US in AI through data … 3
  8. Kalshi NBA Finals Ad n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A thirty-second advert for a prediction market during the 2025 NBA Finals, made almost entirely with Google's Veo 3 by a single director who said it … 3
  9. Kamala Coconut Tree n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 'You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?' — a year-old clip of a speech about context that became the sound of a summer campaign, complete wit… 3
  10. Kamala Coins n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The wave of tokens launched in the hours after Joe Biden withdrew and endorsed Kamala Harris in July 2024, most spelt wrong on purpose, one of which … 4
  11. Kane Trophy Curse n. ☠ Dead 2019–2025 The joke that Harry Kane could not win a trophy — not at Spurs, not at Bayern in his first season, not ever — which ran for six years, gained a chart… 2
  12. Kangaroo Boarding a Plane n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A kangaroo at an airport gate holding a boarding pass while a woman argues with staff, shared by millions as an 'emotional support kangaroo'. It was … 3
  13. Kanka n. ● Alive 2010– 'Bro', 'mate' — the Turkish word for a close friend (short for 'kan kardeşi', blood brother) that Turkish internet attaches to every sentence, and th… 3
  14. Kappa n. ◐ Dying 2011– A greyscale man's face meaning sarcasm. Typed a million times a day at its peak; now the Twitch equivalent of saying 'not' at the end of a sentence. 5
  15. Karen n. ◐ Dying 2020– A woman who wants to speak to the manager — the haircut, the sunglasses, the entitlement — as the internet's name for a type, which went from a niche… 2
  16. Karma (Reddit) n. ● Alive 2005– Points from upvotes, which cannot be spent and are pursued anyway — karma — and 'karma whore' for the person who reposts for it. The record's entry f… 3
  17. Katamari Damacy n. ↺ Undead 2004–2011 Roll a sticky ball around a house until it picks up the house, then the town, then the sky. A cheap Japanese game with a Prince and a drunk King of A… 4
  18. Kate Middleton Edited Photo n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A photograph released by Kensington Palace on Mother's Day 2024, amid speculation about the Princess of Wales's absence, that was withdrawn by every … 3
  19. Katy Perry in Space n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 Eleven minutes above the Kármán line, a kiss for the ground on return, a flower held up to the sky. The internet's response was immediate and total, … 3
  20. Kawaii adj. ● Alive 1980– 'Cute' — the Japanese adjective that became a whole aesthetic (Hello Kitty, rounded handwriting, pastel everything) and then, via fansub forums and T… 3
  21. Kawhi Laugh n. ◐ Dying 2018– Kawhi Leonard's laugh at his first Raptors media day, 24 September 2018 — 'I'm a fun guy', followed by a sound like a machine learning to laugh — cli… 3
  22. Kayfabe n. ● Alive 1994– Wrestling's word for the pretence that the show is real — kayfabe — old carnival slang that reached the internet through 1990s newsgroups and, from a… 3
  23. Kazaa n. ☠ Dead 2001–2012 The file-sharing program that inherited Napster's users in 2001 and handed them, in exchange for free music, a bundle of adware, a virus named after … 3
  24. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes n. ◐ Dying 2015– One person sees a bomb and the others have a printed manual, and nobody can see both. Built at a 2014 game jam for early VR headsets and released in … 4
  25. Keiko Wins n. ◐ Dying 2026– Keiko Fujimori's narrow victory over Roberto Sánchez in Peru's presidential runoff on 7 June 2026, for Popular Force, in an election in which left-wi… 2
  26. Keith Lee Food Review n. ● Alive 2022– The quiet, seated, in-car restaurant review by former MMA fighter Keith Lee — food ordered anonymously, rated out of ten, delivered without shouting … 3
  27. Kek n. ◐ Dying 2010– 'Lol', as it appeared to the other faction in World of Warcraft, adopted by 4chan as its laugh and, in 2016, as a fake religion with a frog god. The … 3
  28. Kekeke (Korean Laugh) interj. ● Alive 1999– ㅋㅋㅋ — the Korean typed laugh, a row of the consonant 'k', born in PC-bang chat and StarCraft lobbies in the late 1990s and encountered by the wide… 3
  29. Kekius Maximus n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 The name Elon Musk gave himself on X for a few days over New Year — Pepe in Roman armour holding a games controller — which sent a previously obscure… 2
  30. KEKW interj. ◐ Dying 2019– Laughter, expressed by a Spanish comedian who died in 2021. Still in use on Twitch in the way a fax machine is in use at a solicitor's. 2
  31. Kelce Swift n. ● Alive 2023– A pop star at a football game, a camera on her every time he did anything, and a season of memes, conspiracy theories and a Super Bowl that half the … 2
  32. Ken Bone n. ☠ Dead 2016–2016 A man in a red jumper asking a sensible question about energy. Beloved for four days, until his Reddit history was found, which is the standard inter… 6
  33. Kenan on AGT n. ● Alive 2026– Kenan Thompson's return to America's Got Talent as a guest judge in September 2026, filling in for Simon Cowell, his first appearance on the panel si… 3
  34. Kendrick–Drake Beef n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 A rap feud that the whole internet watched in real time: diss tracks dropping hours apart, allegations, an AI beat, and a song that won five Grammys.… 2
  35. Kenergy n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 The specific, cheerful, slightly hollow male energy of Ryan Gosling's Ken — Kenergy — as the word Gosling used throughout the 2023 'Barbie' press tou… 3
  36. Kenopsia n. ● Alive 2013– The eeriness of a place that is usually full and is now empty — a school at night, a mall on a Monday — coined by a web project in 2013 and adopted b… 3
  37. Kenough adj. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 'I am Kenough' — the hoodie Ken wears at the end of Barbie, and the word that spread as a joke about male self-esteem and a real one. The record's en… 3
  38. Kerbal Space Program n. ◐ Dying 2011– Small green astronauts called Kerbals are strapped into rockets built from parts and launched with real orbital mechanics, and most of the early ones… 4
  39. Kevin James Smirk n. ◐ Dying 2023– A 1998 promotional photo of Kevin James in a polo shirt, hands in pockets, smirking with one shoulder up, which became the reaction image of August 2… 2
  40. Keyboard Cat n. ☠ Dead 2007–2012 A cat in a blue shirt playing someone off after a failure. The pistachio adverts arrived in 2010 and the joke did not survive being licensed. 2
  41. Keyboard Warrior n. ● Alive 2005– A person who is brave only when typing — the keyboard warrior — as the mid-2000s name for the commenter who would say none of it to your face, and th… 3
  42. Kick n. ● Alive 2022– The streaming platform that offered a 95/5 split and a lot of money to Twitch's biggest names, and got them, and got a reputation as the place where … 2
  43. Kick (Platform) n. ● Alive 2022– The streaming platform that offered creators 95 per cent of subscription revenue, backed by a gambling company, and signed several of Twitch's bigges… 3
  44. Kidcore n. ◐ Dying 2020– Primary colours, cartoon prints, plastic jewellery, and the wardrobe of a six-year-old in 1998 on an adult. A lockdown-era aesthetic for people who w… 2
  45. Kids with Down Syndrome Singing A Thousand Years n. ◐ Dying 2021– A group performance of 'A Thousand Years' by children with Down syndrome, made for World Down Syndrome Day, which spread after the song's writer Chri… 3
  46. Kids' Choice on CBS n. ● Alive 2026– The 2026 Kids' Choice Awards, simulcast on CBS and Nickelodeon from Los Angeles in September, the first time the ceremony has gone out on broadcast t… 3
  47. Kik n. ◐ Dying 2010– The username-only messenger from Waterloo, Ontario, launched in October 2010, that reached a million users in fifteen days and became the app teenage… 3
  48. Kill This Love n. ◐ Dying 2019– The Blackpink single that set the template its own successor would beat: a record premiere audience, 56.7 million views in 24 hours, the fastest run … 3
  49. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood n. ☠ Dead 2014–2024 A celebrity-simulator game in which the player climbs from E-list to A-list by attending events, buying outfits and being nice to Kim. The record's e… 4
  50. Kim Re-elected n. ◐ Dying 2026– The re-election of Kim Jong Un as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea on 22 February 2026, followed on 15 March by his party's landslide… 2
  51. Kimi n. ● Alive 2023– The Chinese chatbot launched in October 2023 on the promise of reading very long documents, and the name of the open-weight Kimi K2 model of July 202… 3
  52. Kinect n. ☠ Dead 2010–2017 Microsoft's camera controller, announced as Project Natal with a demo of a boy called Milo, released in November 2010 and, for a moment, the fastest-… 4
  53. King n. ● Alive 2020– 'King' — the address for a man doing something good, with 'you dropped this 👑' as the full form — as the 2020 way of praising men that was, from the… 2
  54. King Haakon VIII n. ● Alive 2026– The regnal name of Norway's new king, who succeeded on 28 August 2026 on the death of his father, King Harald V. The former Crown Prince Haakon becam… 2
  55. King of the Hill n. ● Alive 2024– Pump.fun's front-page slot: the coin that has bought its way furthest up the bonding curve without yet graduating to an exchange, displayed at the to… 4
  56. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II n. ● Alive 2025– Warhorse's medieval Bohemian sequel, released in February 2025 to a million sales in a day and a pre-launch culture war about whether its fifteenth-c… 4
  57. Kingdom of Loathing n. ● Alive 2003– A browser role-playing game drawn in stick figures, where the currency is meat, the classes include Disco Bandit and Pastamancer, and every item is a… 4
  58. Kirby 9/11 n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A week in October 2023 when users found that Microsoft's image generator, newly upgraded to DALL-E 3, would draw cartoon characters piloting aircraft… 3
  59. Kirigiri Execution n. ● Alive 2026– A Danganronpa scene of a character being crushed by machinery, repurposed as the exact image of what a Sunday-night email does to a person. Used for … 3
  60. Kittenfishing n. ◐ Dying 2017– Catfishing, but small: old photos, a rounded-up height, a 'love hiking' that means one walk in 2015. Named by a dating app in 2017 for the lies every… 2