Records in Q
Letter by letter, 60 at a time
- Quake n. ▲ Fossil 1996–2000 id Software's true-3D follow-up to Doom, with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack and, from December 1996, internet play that worked over a modem. It made t… 4
- Quant Kid n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The boy of about thirteen who, streaming on pump.fun on 20 November 2024, launched a memecoin called QUANT, sold his whole allocation for roughly 128… 7
- Quantisation n. ● Alive 2023– Shrinking a model by storing its weights in fewer bits, sixteen down to eight or four, so it fits on a laptop or a phone with a small loss of quality… 4
- Quarantine 15 n. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 The weight gained in lockdown, named after the college version and joked about in April 2020 by people who were baking, and argued about by May by pe… 2
- Quarantine Baking n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 The spring of 2020 when everyone baked — sourdough with a starter that had a name, banana bread, focaccia with a vegetable garden on top — and posted… 3
- Queen n. ● Alive 2013– 'Queen' — the address for any woman doing anything approvingly, and, with 'yaaas', the whole affirmation of the mid-2010s stan internet. The record's… 3
- Queen Latifah AMAs n. ◐ Dying 2026– The 52nd American Music Awards, aired on CBS in May 2026 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with Queen Latifah hosting for the first time … 3
- Quibi n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 Ten-minute premium television for your commute, launched three weeks into a lockdown. Spent $1.75 billion, lasted six months, and left behind one wor… 4
- Quick Question phr. ● Alive 2010– 'Quick question' — the opener that precedes a question that is not quick, and the record's entry for the message that steals an afternoon while claim… 3
- QuickCam n. ▲ Fossil 1994–1998 The Connectix QuickCam, a grey plastic ball on a stand, sold for $99 in 1994 and captured 320 by 240 pixels in shades of grey on a Mac. It was the fi… 4
- Quiet Cracking n. ● Alive 2025– Not quitting, not quiet quitting, but slowly coming apart at work while continuing to function. The 2025 entry in the 'quiet' family of workplace wor… 2
- Quiet Firing n. ● Alive 2022– Making a job so bad that the employee leaves — quiet firing — as the manager's version of quiet quitting, named within weeks of it. The record's entr… 3
- Quiet Luxury n. ◐ Dying 2023– Expensive clothes with no logos — cashmere, navy, a bag you have to know about — as a trend for people who could not afford it and a description of p… 2
- Quiet Quitting n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 Doing your job and nothing more, renamed as rebellion. Six months of management columns explaining what 'working to contract' had meant for a century. 5
- Quiet Vacationing n. ● Alive 2024– Taking time off without telling anyone: working from a beach, moving the mouse, replying at odd hours to look busy. Named in a 2024 survey and confir… 3
- Quishing n. ● Alive 2023– Phishing by QR code — quishing — in which a sticker on a parking meter or a code in a PDF sends the phone to a fake login page, a crime that grew wit… 2
- QuizUp n. ☠ Dead 2013–2021 A real-time quiz against a stranger in one of hundreds of topics, from Icelandic startup Plain Vanilla, released in November 2013 and reported at the… 4
- Quote Tweet Dunk n. ◐ Dying 2016– Reposting someone's post with a comment designed to humiliate it, to your own audience — the dunk — as the platform's main sport from 2016 to 2020, a… 2
- Qwen n. ● Alive 2023– Alibaba's model family, released in open versions since August 2023 in more sizes and variants than anyone could track, and by 2025 reported to be th… 3
- QWOP n. ▲ Fossil 2008–2013 A browser game in which Q, W, O and P control a sprinter's thighs and calves independently and the sprinter, named Qwop, rarely gets past two metres … 4