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  1. O RLY? interj. ☠ Dead 2003–2008 A snowy owl asking whether you were serious. The first image macro with a call and response; retired when the response was always YA RLY. 0
  2. o1 n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 OpenAI's first 'reasoning' model, which paused to think before answering and hid its thinking, released in September 2024 after months of strawberry … 4
  3. o3 n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 The reasoning model OpenAI announced in December 2024 with a reported 87.5 per cent on the ARC-AGI benchmark in its high-compute setting, a number th… 4
  4. o7 n. ● Alive 2005– A salute made of characters — the o is a head, the 7 a raised arm — from a spaceship game's chat into every community that needed to say 'respect' in… 3
  5. Obama Deepfake PSA n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 A public-service video in which a deepfaked Barack Obama warns that 'we are entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything', befor… 3
  6. Obby n. ● Alive 2008– An obstacle course, in Roblox: a sequence of platforms, lava and kill-bricks that a player jumps across for no reward beyond the next stage. The word… 3
  7. Obsession: The Sugar-Coated Trap n. ◐ Dying 2026– An anti-drug promotional video released in 2026 by Hong Kong's Correctional Services Department, made in an AI-generated animation style. It became n… 4
  8. OC abbr. ● Alive 2005– Original content, as opposed to a repost. The distinction that separates a poster from a curator, and it is drawn very rarely. 3
  9. Octodad: Dadliest Catch n. ☠ Dead 2014–2016 An octopus in a suit pretends to be a human father, with each limb steered separately and every household task turning into wreckage. It began as a s… 4
  10. Oddly Satisfying adj. ● Alive 2013– Video of things fitting, cutting, pouring or peeling perfectly — oddly satisfying — as the genre that turned a physical sensation into a content cate… 3
  11. OFC abbr. ● Alive 2004– 'Of course' — the acronym of easy agreement, from mid-2000s chat, whose tone runs from warm ('ofc I'll come') to withering ('ofc he did'), with nothi… 3
  12. Office Siren n. ◐ Dying 2024– An aesthetic of pencil skirts, glasses, slicked hair and a blouse that is doing more than it should — the office as a runway, filtered through early-… 3
  13. Official Trump n. ◐ Dying 2025– A token launched on Solana on the Friday evening before Donald Trump's second inauguration, announced from his own account, with 80 percent of the su… 2
  14. OG abbr. ● Alive 1991– 'Original gangster' — an original, a founder, someone who was there first — from a 1991 rap album into every context: the OG of a group chat, an OG P… 3
  15. Oh No Oh No n. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 'Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no' — a sound laid over any video in which something is about to go wrong, and the most-used TikTok audio of 2020. The … 3
  16. Ohio n. ☠ Dead 2022–2025 A Midwestern state used to mean anywhere cursed. Meant nothing to do with the state, which was the point, until it was on the state's own tourism mer… 1
  17. Ohio Final Boss n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 The strongest possible creature from Ohio — the end of the Ohio meme's logic, in which the state produces a boss fight. A Gen Alpha phrase that laste… 3
  18. Ohio Rizz n. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Two Gen Alpha words stuck together for no reason — 'Ohio rizz' — as an example of the slang-overload joke in which children fused every word they kne… 3
  19. Ohio Skibidi Gyatt phr. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 The nonsense string of Gen Alpha words — 'Ohio skibidi gyatt rizz sigma fanum tax' — recited by adults as a joke about children and by children as a … 2
  20. Oiia Cat n. ◐ Dying 2024– A cat spinning in place to a sound that goes 'oiiaioiiiai', which became the autumn of 2024's most-shared cat and a chant at a lot of school gates. T… 3
  21. Ok And? phr. ● Alive 2017– 'Okay, and?' — the reply to a statement offered as damning that the replier does not find damning: 'she wore it twice — ok and?' The record's entry f… 3
  22. OK Boomer phr. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 Two words dismissing an entire generation's opinion. Said in the New Zealand parliament, explained in the New York Times, and dead within the quarter. 1
  23. Ok Boomer (Reply) phr. ◐ Dying 2019– The two-word reply to any older person's complaint about the young, which ended arguments and made the news in autumn 2019 when a New Zealand MP said… 3
  24. Ok Garmin phr. ● Alive 2025– 'Ok Garmin, Video speichern' — a German driver, having just avoided a crash, calmly instructing his dashcam to save the clip. The audio became the so… 3
  25. OK Go Music Videos n. ● Alive 2006– A band whose videos are engineering problems solved on camera: treadmill choreography in 'Here It Goes Again', a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machin… 3
  26. Ok Punch phr. ● Alive 2026– The 'okay' that precedes the punch — the calm, final acknowledgement that talking is over — lifted from the February 2026 confrontation video and use… 3
  27. Okay Bears n. ◐ Dying 2022– Ten thousand cartoon bears on Solana, minted in April 2022 for 1.5 SOL each, that briefly topped OpenSea's volume charts within days of launch and ga… 4
  28. Okay Guy n. ▲ Fossil 2010–2014 The sad, slumped rage face with downcast eyes and a small 'okay' — the reaction to being told no, told off, or told that the pizza place is closed. A… 3
  29. Okay Punch Kid n. ◐ Dying 2026– A student who calmly warned a man defending an ICE poster that there would be consequences, then followed through with a punch. The 'okay' before the… 3
  30. Old Head n. ● Alive 1995– An older person — 'old head' — who has opinions about the current version of things and a firm belief that the earlier version was better, from hip-h… 2
  31. Old Money Aesthetic n. ◐ Dying 2022– Tennis whites, linen, a rowing club that does not exist, a house in the Hamptons that is a rental. The costume of inherited wealth, worn by people wh… 3
  32. Old Money Twitter n. ◐ Dying 2021– Accounts posting black-and-white photos of Kennedys, Riviera villas and men in loafers with captions about 'quiet wealth' — old money Twitter — as th… 3
  33. Old Spice Guy n. ☠ Dead 2010–2010 A shirtless man on a horse answering tweets in real time. The one advert that was a meme from birth; filed here because the industry spent the next d… 2
  34. Old Town Road n. ● Alive 2019– A country-trap track that spread through TikTok as the Yeehaw Challenge — drink milk, cut, appear in a cowboy hat — and then spent 13-plus weeks at n… 3
  35. Ole's at the Wheel phr. ☠ Dead 2018–2021 The Manchester United chant — 'Ole's at the wheel, tell me how good does it feel' — from Solskjær's caretaker honeymoon in December 2018 that turned,… 2
  36. Olive Garden N64 n. ● Alive 2026– A fake Nintendo 64 game set in an Olive Garden — low-poly breadsticks, a fog-of-war salad bar — that people treated as a real lost cartridge. A nosta… 3
  37. Ollama n. ● Alive 2023– The tool that reduced running a language model on your own machine to typing one command, released in July 2023 and by 2025 the way most people who s… 3
  38. Olympic Muffin n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A Norwegian swimmer's daily devotion to the Olympic village chocolate muffin, posted with the intensity of a love affair, which made a pastry the mos… 2
  39. Olympic Opening Ceremony 2024 n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A ceremony on the Seine in the rain, with a headless Marie Antoinette, a metal band, a mysterious torchbearer and a tableau that half the internet re… 2
  40. Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru phr. ◐ Dying 2017– 'You are already dead' — 'nani?!' — a 1984 anime's catchphrase, revived in 2017 as the format for any delayed consequence: the email sent, the reply … 2
  41. OMEGALUL n. ● Alive 2016– A Twitch emote — a streamer's laughing face stretched into a circle — spammed in chat when something is very funny, and typed in full caps as a word … 3
  42. Omegle n. ☠ Dead 2009–2023 Talk to strangers, on camera, at random. Ran for fourteen years and closed with a letter from its founder saying the cost of fighting misuse had beco… 4
  43. OMG abbr. ● Alive 1917– 'Oh my God' — first written in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill by an admiral, and rediscovered by the internet in the 1990s as the exclamation of … 2
  44. Omo interj. ● Alive 2012– 'Wow', 'oh boy', 'mate' — the Yoruba word for 'child' repurposed as the Nigerian internet's all-purpose exclamation, opening a sentence of shock, sym… 3
  45. OMORI n. ● Alive 2020– A role-playing game about a boy who has not left his room in years, told across a pastel dream world and a suburb, released on Christmas Day 2020 aft… 3
  46. OMW abbr. ● Alive 2005– 'On my way' — the text sent by a person who is not yet on their way, as a promise rather than a report. The record's entry for the three letters that… 3
  47. On Fleek adj. ☠ Dead 2014–2016 Perfectly done, of eyebrows. Coined in a six-second video, used by IHOP within a year, and gone within two; the coiner received nothing. 4
  48. On God phr. ● Alive 2016– I swear — an oath of sincerity, from hip-hop into general use, and one of the most-used phrases of the 2020s internet without ever being a meme. The … 2
  49. On-Chain adj. ● Alive 2021– Stored on the blockchain itself rather than pointed to from it: the NFT market's word for a picture whose data would survive the project's website. M… 3
  50. One Bite Pizza Review n. ● Alive 2016– Dave Portnoy's format — stand outside a pizzeria, take one bite, give a score to one decimal place, 'one bite, everybody knows the rules' — from a 20… 2
  51. One Does Not Simply phr. ◐ Dying 2011– Boromir's warning about Mordor, as the caption for anything that is not simple: 'one does not simply eat one crisp'. The record's entry for the 2011–… 3
  52. One More Game phr. ● Alive 2005– The lie that precedes the next three hours — 'one more game' — as old as multiplayer and revived as a meme every time a new game makes it true. The r… 2
  53. One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy phr. ● Alive 2021– Camus's line about the man pushing the boulder, attached to a wojak pushing a boulder, attached to any repetitive task: the commute, the dishes, the … 2
  54. One Piece Live Action n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The live-action adaptation of a manga that everyone expected to fail and which did not, producing a fortnight of surprised fans, memes about the stra… 3
  55. One Pound Fish n. ▲ Fossil 2012–2014 A market trader's sales patter, sung at a fish stall in London and filmed by passers-by, which turned into a viral hit and then into an actual record… 3
  56. One Weird Trick phr. ☠ Dead 2010–2014 A promise of a secret that doctors hated. Ran the advertising economy of the low-quality web for four years and was banned by the networks it had fun… 2
  57. One-Tap n. ● Alive 2012– A kill with a single click, one bullet to the head, in Counter-Strike and its descendants — and the verb, 'got one-tapped'. The record notes the term… 2
  58. ONG abbr. ● Alive 2020– 'On God' — the oath, abbreviated — as the 2020s' sincerity marker, appended to any claim: 'that's the best pizza ong'. The record has the phrase; thi… 3
  59. Onitsuka Tiger n. ● Alive 2024– A Japanese trainer with a thin sole and stripes, from the 1960s and Kill Bill, which took the Samba's place in 2024–25 as the shoe everyone suddenly … 3
  60. Only Up! n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A climbing game with no checkpoints, no save and a boy from a favela ascending through a sky of floating junk, released in May 2023 and turned into a… 4