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  1. L + Ratio phr. ◐ Dying 2021– 'L + ratio + you fell off + no maidens' — the stacked insult of 2021–22, in which every reply added another loss. A format that made mockery cumulati… 3
  2. L Bozo phr. ◐ Dying 2021– 'L' for loss plus 'bozo' for clown — 'L bozo', often with 'ratio' — as the 2021–22 reply used to close an argument by announcing that the other perso… 2
  3. L.A. Noire n. ● Alive 2011– Rockstar's 1947 detective game, released in May 2011 with a facial-capture system that recorded actors' faces from every angle and produced the most … 4
  4. La Peace phr. ● Alive 2026– Kai Cenat, on stream with Speed, reading 'lapis lazuli' as 'la peace'. Within days he had been edited into a monk, a philosopher and a stained-glass … 3
  5. La Vaca Saturno Saturnita n. ● Alive 2025– A cow with the planet Saturn for a body, rings included, standing on human legs on a beach. Spanish-titled, Italian-narrated, and the moment the genr… 3
  6. Lab-Grown Oesophagus n. ● Alive 2026– The first lab-grown oesophagus, reported on 20 March 2026 by scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London. The record f… 2
  7. Labels v Suno and Udio n. ◐ Dying 2024– The major labels' suits against the two music generators, filed in June 2024, alleging mass copying of recordings and seeking up to 150,000 dollars p… 4
  8. Labubu n. ☠ Dead 2024–2026 A toothy elf hung from a handbag, bought blind. The queue outside Pop Mart was the meme; the resale market was the obituary. 5
  9. Lad n. ● Alive 1990– A young man who drinks, jokes and does not think — the lad — as a 1990s British type that a 2012 website turned into a brand and the internet into a … 2
  10. Ladies and Gentlemen, We Got Him n. ◐ Dying 2019– A pairing: Breakbot's Baby I'm Yours dropped over footage of somebody being caught out, with a 2003 press-conference line by the American diplomat Pa… 3
  11. Lafufu n. ● Alive 2025– A fake Labubu — the bootleg with the wrong number of teeth, the eyes slightly too far apart, the smile that looks like it knows what it did. Named by… 3
  12. Lag n. ● Alive 1995– The delay between doing and seeing — lag — as the oldest excuse in online gaming and, since about 2010, a word for any slowness in a person: 'sorry, … 3
  13. LaMDA n. ☠ Dead 2021–2023 Google's conversational model, announced in May 2021 with a demo in which it spoke as the planet Pluto, and famous a year later when an engineer, Bla… 4
  14. Lame Pun Coon n. ☠ Dead 2010–2014 A raccoon on a green background grinning at its own terrible pun, a 2010 Advice Animal whose captions ran on the pattern of a set-up followed by a gr… 2
  15. Lamer n. ▲ Fossil 1985–2003 A person who is not skilled, not cool, and not welcome — a lamer — as the BBS era's word for it, which preceded 'noob' by a decade and was used by th… 2
  16. LAN Party n. ◐ Dying 1993– A gathering of people, their desktop computers, monitors, cables and a case of energy drinks in a basement or hall, to play Doom, Quake or Counter-St… 3
  17. LangChain n. ● Alive 2022– The open-source library for chaining calls to language models, published in October 2022 and by mid 2023 the default first dependency of every AI sta… 3
  18. Larp v. ● Alive 2023– To pretend to be something one is not, in the trenches specifically to claim to be a developer, an insider or an early holder without evidence. The w… 2
  19. Laser Eyes n. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 Red laser eyes added to a profile picture as a pledge — the eyes stay on until the price hits a number — worn by senators, athletes and a lot of peop… 2
  20. Last to Leave n. ● Alive 2018– The challenge format in which contestants stay in, on or near something — a circle, a pool, a car — and the last one to leave wins it or a sum of mon… 3
  21. Late Night with the Devil AI Images n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The discovery, ahead of its March 2024 release, that the horror film Late Night with the Devil contained three AI-generated interstitial images style… 3
  22. Latent Space n. ● Alive 2013– The compressed internal space in which a model represents things, where every point is a possible image or sentence and nearby points are similar. Wa… 4
  23. Latte Makeup n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Warm browns, bronze, a lip the colour of milky coffee — the beauty trend of late summer 2023, and the one that made every makeup tutorial sound like … 2
  24. Laung Laachi n. ◐ Dying 2018– The title song of a Punjabi film that became the most-viewed song video in India by December 2019 and the first music video to pass a billion views t… 3
  25. Laxed (Siren Beat) n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 A siren-jam instrumental by seventeen-year-old New Zealander Jawsh 685 that became the sound of the 'Culture Dance' in early 2020, where users danced… 3
  26. Lazy Girl Job n. ◐ Dying 2023– A remote job with a decent salary, low stress and no ambition required — the opposite of girlbossing, named in 2023 and wanted by everyone who had do… 2
  27. Lazy Girl Workout n. ● Alive 2023– A low-effort exercise routine — walks, pilates on the floor, twenty minutes on an incline — sold under the 'lazy girl' banner of 2023, in which the p… 2
  28. Lazy Sunday n. ☠ Dead 2005–2006 A rap about cupcakes and Narnia that made YouTube a household name over a single Christmas. NBC had it taken down in February 2006, having noticed th… 3
  29. Le (Reddit) adj. ☠ Dead 2009–2013 'Le' — the French article, put in front of English words for no reason — 'le me, walking to le shop' — as the rage-comic era's verbal tic, and the re… 2
  30. Le Dollar Bean n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 The text-to-speech voice reading a censored spelling of 'lesbian' as 'le dollar bean', which became the word itself for a year — a euphemism generate… 3
  31. Le Mans 2026 n. ◐ Dying 2026– The 24 Hours of Le Mans run on 13 and 14 June 2026. One day of racing, one night of people posting that they are still awake, and a Sunday afternoon … 3
  32. LeafyIsHere n. ☠ Dead 2015–2020 The channel of Calvin Vail, whose 2015–2016 videos — a chin, a Counter-Strike background, a monotone insult delivered over gameplay — defined the fir… 3
  33. League of Legends n. ● Alive 2009– The free five-a-side game built from the DotA map by one of its former maintainers, which became the most-played PC game on earth and the largest esp… 4
  34. Learn to Fly n. ▲ Fossil 2009–2020 A penguin who has read that penguins cannot fly builds a ramp, buys a glider, and launches himself further each day to prove otherwise. A Flash game … 4
  35. Leave Britney Alone phr. ☠ Dead 2007–2008 A tearful defence filmed under a bedsheet, watched two million times in one day. The first time the internet made someone famous specifically to mock… 0
  36. LeBron Glazing n. ● Alive 2023– The 2023–24 TikTok phenomenon of teenage boys posting worshipful LeBron James edits — slow motion, 'You Are My Sunshine', 'I love this man', memes of… 3
  37. Leecher n. ● Alive 2000– Someone who downloads without uploading — a leecher — as the file-sharing world's word for the person who takes and does not give, and the origin of … 3
  38. Leekspin n. ▲ Fossil 2006–2011 A Flash loop from 2006 of an anime girl twirling a leek to a Finnish folk group's scat-sung polka, which ran on every forum for a year and introduced… 3
  39. Leeroy Jenkins n. ▲ Fossil 2005–2014 A man shouting his own name and ruining a plan. Was staged, which nobody minded, then appeared as a Jeopardy clue, which everybody did. 3
  40. Leetspeak n. ▲ Fossil 1994–2008 Numbers standing in for letters to evade filters and signal membership. Ended when your aunt's password was p4ssw0rd. 5
  41. LeFoot n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A memecoin built around a photograph of LeBron James's bare foot. The site promised nothing except the foot, which was honest of it. It launched in M… 4
  42. Left 4 Dead n. ◐ Dying 2008– Four survivors, a horde of zombies and an AI director that decided when to hurt you. Valve's co-op shooter was the LAN and Steam game of 2008, and it… 4
  43. Left on Read phr. ● Alive 2013– A message that has been seen and not answered — left on read — as the small cruelty that read receipts made possible, and the record's entry for the … 2
  44. Left Shark n. ☠ Dead 2015–2015 A backing dancer in a shark costume who had forgotten the choreography. Katy Perry's lawyers sent a takedown to a man selling 3D-printed figures of i… 0
  45. Legend n. ● Alive 2010– 'Legend' — a person who did something slightly above the ordinary: got the round in, replied to the email, found the remote. The record's entry for t… 3
  46. Legging Legs n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A term for the kind of legs that 'suit' leggings — a body standard dressed as a fashion tip — which TikTok blocked within weeks in early 2024 and red… 3
  47. Lemmings n. ▲ Fossil 1991–1996 Green-haired creatures walk mindlessly towards cliffs and the player assigns them jobs to survive. The Dundee studio's 1991 puzzle game sold across e… 4
  48. Lemonade (Beyoncé) n. ◐ Dying 2016– Beyoncé's sixth solo album, released without warning on 23 April 2016 as an hour-long film on HBO and then on Tidal. The internet spent the following… 4
  49. Lensa Magic Avatars n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 The paid feature that filled Instagram with painterly AI portraits in December 2022: upload ten selfies, wait, receive fifty images of yourself as an… 4
  50. Lerulerulerule n. ● Alive 2025– A pineapple with a face and legs, singing its own name, from the late spring cast. Known for the song more than the fruit, and for being the characte… 3
  51. Let Him Cook phr. ● Alive 2022– An instruction to let someone finish, because they are on to something. Also used sarcastically for someone who is not, which doubled its lifespan. 3
  52. Let It Go n. ● Alive 2013– The song from Frozen, sung by Idina Menzel as Elsa, which spread past the film and into every playground, car journey and school concert of 2014. Cov… 3
  53. Let Me Solo Her n. ☠ Dead 2022–2022 A player in nothing but a jar on his head who let himself be summoned to kill the game's hardest boss for strangers, thousands of times, and became t… 3
  54. Let's Play n. ● Alive 2007– Watching someone play a game and talk. Started as text with screenshots, became an industry that made its stars richer than the games. 6
  55. Let's Take This Offline phr. ● Alive 2005– 'Let's take this offline' — the phrase that ends an argument in a meeting by promising to continue it privately, which never happens. The record's en… 3
  56. Lethal Company n. ◐ Dying 2023– A co-op horror game about scavenging scrap on a quota with three friends who will get you killed, made by one person, which owned the end of 2023 and… 3
  57. Lethal Trifecta n. ● Alive 2025– Simon Willison's 2025 name for the combination that makes an AI agent dangerous: access to your private data, exposure to text an attacker can write,… 4
  58. Letsbonk.fun n. ● Alive 2025– A pump.fun copy backed by the Bonk community, built on Raydium's LaunchLab and launched in April 2025, with a share of fees spent buying and burning … 4
  59. Lewis's Law n. ● Alive 2012– The comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. Filed as a law because it has never once needed an exception. 0
  60. LFG abbr. ● Alive 2021– 'Let's go', with an expletive in the middle, and the reply to every announcement in every NFT Discord in 2021: a mint, a partnership, a floor bump, a… 3