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  1. p(doom) n. ● Alive 2022– Your personal probability that AI ends the world, given as a percentage and asked as an icebreaker. The notation is from the rationalist forums; the … 4
  2. Pac-Man n. ▲ Fossil 1980–1984 A yellow circle eating dots in a maze while four ghosts chase it. Namco's 1980 arcade game became 'Pac-Man Fever' in the United States by 1982: a top… 4
  3. Pack Opening n. ● Alive 2013– The video genre of a person opening virtual packs — FIFA, then Hearthstone, Pokémon, anything sealed — reacting to each card with a scream or a groan… 3
  4. Padel n. ● Alive 2024– Tennis in a glass box, with a smaller court and a bigger social life, which became the sport of 2024–25 across Europe and the thing every man in fina… 2
  5. Palia n. ◐ Dying 2023– A free 'cosy MMO' pitched as Animal Crossing with other people in it, opened to the public in August 2023 with a wave of streamers and a wait list, t… 3
  6. Palm Beach Pete n. ● Alive 2026– The nickname of Peter Bart Simel, born 1955, an American social media influencer and political candidate who went viral in 2026 for his physical rese… 3
  7. Palworld n. ◐ Dying 2024– An open-world survival game in which creatures that look very much like Pokémon carry assault rifles and work in your factories, released into early … 4
  8. Pandemic Pet n. ● Alive 2020– The dog or cat acquired in lockdown, when everyone was home, and the 2021 discourse about what happened when they were not. The record's entry for th… 3
  9. Panik Kalm Panik n. ◐ Dying 2020– Three panels of a smooth grey figure — panic, calm, panic — for any situation that resolves and then does not. The three-beat joke of 2020, and the r… 3
  10. Panoramic n. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 'Pandemic', avoided — 'the panoramic', 'the panini', 'the panorama' — as the algospeak for the thing nobody was allowed to name in 2021 content. The … 2
  11. Pants on the Ground n. ▲ Fossil 2010–2012 A chant performed by 'General' Larry Platt at an American Idol audition in Atlanta on 13 January 2010, complaining about low-slung trousers. Within a… 3
  12. Paper Hands n. ● Alive 2021– The opposite of diamond hands: someone who sells the moment it hurts. Coined during the GameStop week of January 2021 and used since for anyone who g… 3
  13. Paperclip Maximiser n. ● Alive 2003– The thought experiment of a superintelligent machine told to make paperclips, which does so with everything, including the atoms in people, because n… 4
  14. Papers, Please n. ◐ Dying 2013– You are a border inspector in the fictional state of Arstotzka in 1982, checking passports against a rulebook that changes daily while your family ge… 4
  15. Parallel n. ● Alive 2021– A science-fiction card game whose art sold as NFTs for three years before the game existed, raised a reported $50 million from investors in 2021, and… 3
  16. Paranoid Parrot n. ☠ Dead 2010–2014 A wide-eyed parrot on a purple background, the 2010 Advice Animal for irrational fear: the door is locked but you check it again, the police car behi… 3
  17. Parasocial adj. ◐ Dying 2016– A one-sided relationship with someone who does not know you exist. Coined about television in 1956; Cambridge Word of the Year in 2025; somewhere in … 5
  18. Parentification n. ● Alive 1967– A child taking on the parent's role — cooking, minding siblings, managing a parent's emotions — parentification, a family-therapy concept from 1967 t… 3
  19. Paris AI Action Summit n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The third of the summits that began at Bletchley, held in Paris in February 2025 with 'safety' removed from the title. Around sixty countries signed … 4
  20. Park the Bus n. ● Alive 2004– To defend with every player behind the ball and no intention of leaving. José Mourinho used the phrase in September 2004 about a Tottenham side that … 3
  21. Part 2? phr. ● Alive 2020– The comment that ends every story cut off mid-sentence, and the engagement it produces: creators learned around 2020 that a video stopped before the … 2
  22. Party Animals n. ◐ Dying 2020– A physics brawler in which floppy puppies, ducks and kittens throw each other off ledges, whose free demo during a Steam festival in October 2020 dre… 3
  23. Pass the Brush n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 The relay transition of spring 2020: a creator brushes a makeup brush across the lens, and the next creator, in the next stitched clip, receives it f… 3
  24. Passive Income n. ● Alive 2010– Money earned while asleep — passive income — as the promise of every finance influencer, from rental yields to an e-book about passive income. The re… 3
  25. Passive-Aggressive Smiley n. ● Alive 2015– 🙂 — the slightly smiling face, which is not a smile but a warning, especially from a manager: 'please have it by 5 🙂'. The record's entry for the e… 3
  26. Passport Bros n. ◐ Dying 2023– Men who announce they are leaving to find partners abroad because women at home have 'too many standards', and the response of everyone else, which w… 3
  27. Password Manager n. ● Alive 1997– The app that remembers your passwords so you can stop using the same one with a 1 on the end — around since Bruce Schneier's Password Safe in 1997, c… 2
  28. Pastel Goth n. ☠ Dead 2012–2017 Lilac hair, inverted crosses, a bat-shaped bag, creepers and everything in pink — pastel goth — as the 2012 Tumblr aesthetic that put the gothic in E… 2
  29. Patreon n. ● Alive 2013– The membership platform, founded in May 2013 by musician Jack Conte, where fans pay a creator monthly in exchange for early episodes, a Discord role … 3
  30. Pause interj. ● Alive 2008– 'Pause' — said after an accidental double entendre to flag it, as the successor to a worse phrase and the record's entry for the interjection that ma… 3
  31. Pause Letter n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 An open letter of 22 March 2023 calling for a six-month pause on training systems 'more powerful than GPT-4', signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yos… 4
  32. Pay to Win adj. ● Alive 2005– A game where the shop beats the skill. The accusation has become so broad that it now applies to most of the economy. 4
  33. Payola Discourse n. ● Alive 2020– The stan-Twitter argument that a rival's hit is 'payola' — paid radio play, paid playlisting, a label's thumb on the scale — a 1950s word revived aro… 3
  34. PB abbr. ● Alive 2004– Personal best: a speedrunner's fastest time in a category, borrowed from athletics into the Speed Demos Archive community by the mid-2000s and now th… 3
  35. PC Master Race n. ● Alive 2008– The PC gamer's self-mocking (then unironic, then self-mocking again) title, coined as a joke about snobbery in a 2008 Zero Punctuation video and adop… 3
  36. PDF File n. ◐ Dying 2022– Algospeak for a paedophile — a 'PDF file' — used in true-crime and warning content to evade moderation, and the reason a document format became an ac… 3
  37. Peach and Eggplant n. ● Alive 2014– 🍑🍆 — the two fruits that the internet made into anatomy, so thoroughly that Instagram banned the aubergine hashtag in 2015 and Apple redesigned the… 2
  38. Peaches n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 Bowser at a piano singing a love song to Princess Peach, from the 2023 Mario film, which charted, was nominated for awards, and was sung by every chi… 2
  39. PEAK n. ● Alive 2025– A four-player climbing game made in a month, in which you and your friends scale a mountain, eat questionable mushrooms, and fall. The summer's co-op… 3
  40. Peak Fiction phr. ● Alive 2023– The highest praise the anime internet has — 'this is peak fiction' — applied to Frieren, to a good episode of anything, and, ironically, to a cartoon… 3
  41. Peanut (PNUT) n. ☠ Dead 2024–2025 The afterlife of Peanut the Squirrel: a mascot launched the day after the animal was euthanised, which rode the outrage — and a supportive post from … 3
  42. Peanut Butter Jelly Time n. ☠ Dead 2002–2007 A dancing banana that would not stop. Killed by a television sitcom using it, then by Flash dying, twice over. 3
  43. Peanut the Squirrel n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A pet squirrel with an Instagram following, seized and euthanised by New York authorities days before the election, which made him briefly the most p… 2
  44. PEBKAC abbr. ● Alive 1995– 'Problem exists between keyboard and chair' — tech support's code for 'the user is the problem', from the 1990s helpdesk into general use as a diagno… 2
  45. Pedro Pascal Anxiety Touching n. ● Alive 2025– Pedro Pascal on a press tour, hand on the arm of whoever was nearest, described by himself as anxiety and by the internet as a whole personality. Bec… 3
  46. Pedro Pascal Eating a Sandwich n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A short clip of an actor walking, eating a sandwich and drinking a coffee with the contentment of a man who has nowhere to be, which the internet ado… 2
  47. Peggle n. ◐ Dying 2007– A ball drops through a field of pegs, and when the last orange peg goes the game slows down, plays Beethoven's Ode to Joy and fires fireworks. A PopC… 4
  48. Peng adj. ● Alive 2005– Attractive, excellent — 'peng' — from London youth slang into the national vocabulary via reality television, and the record's entry for the adjectiv… 3
  49. Penguin of Doom n. ▲ Fossil 2005–2012 'hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork*' — the opening of a mid-2000s copypasta written in the voice of a hyperactive forum newcomer who is 'random… 3
  50. Penguin Tariffs n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The April 2025 discovery that the US tariff list included the Heard and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Antarctic territory whose only residents are… 3
  51. Pentagon AI Contracts n. ● Alive 2025– The Department of Defense's 2025 awards of contracts with ceilings of 200 million dollars each to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, beginning with O… 3
  52. Pentagon Explosion Fake n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 An AI-generated image of black smoke beside a building captioned as an explosion at the Pentagon, which spread on the morning of 22 May 2023 through … 3
  53. Pentagon Explosion Hoax n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A single AI image of black smoke rising next to a building resembling the Pentagon, posted on 22 May 2023 and amplified by verified accounts includin… 4
  54. Pentakill n. ● Alive 2009– Killing all five enemy players in quick succession in League of Legends, announced by the game in a voice that has been imitated in every school in t… 3
  55. Pepe Multisig Incident n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 In August 2023 the wallet holding Pepe's team reserves changed its signing rule from five of eight to two of eight and sent around 16 trillion PEPE, … 4
  56. Pepe Renaissance n. ● Alive 2023– The spring of 2023 in which Pepe the Frog, after years as a contaminated symbol, was reclaimed as a mascot by a crowd who found the frog funny again.… 3
  57. Pepe the Frog n. ↺ Undead 2005–2016 A comic frog that was community property until it wasn't. The clearest case study of a meme taken hostage, and of an author trying to get one back. 2
  58. Pepega n. ● Alive 2018– A Pepe with a lopsided face, spammed in Twitch chat when a streamer does something stupid — and, as 'pepega', an adjective for anything dim. The reco… 3
  59. PepeHands n. ● Alive 2016– A crying Pepe holding its hands up in despair, for the moment a streamer loses, a chat's favourite dies, or a game is cancelled. The record's entry f… 3
  60. Pepperoni Hug Spot n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A thirty-second advert for a pizza restaurant that does not exist, made entirely with generative tools in April 2023: melting families, a slice with … 3