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  1. R.E.P.O. n. ● Alive 2025– A co-op horror game about carrying fragile valuables through a haunted building with physics that hate you. The small ragdoll robots, the screaming, … 2
  2. r/place n. ● Alive 2017– A blank canvas on which any user could place one pixel every few minutes, which produced, over three days, flags, art, and wars — r/place — as the in… 3
  3. Rabbit Hole (Deco*27) n. ● Alive 2023– A 2023 Vocaloid track whose derivative animated version, made by channelcastation, went viral in 2024 and produced a run of memes off individual fram… 3
  4. Rabbit Inc. n. ◐ Dying 2023– The company behind the R1, a $199 orange gadget announced at CES in January 2024 with a 'large action model' that would use apps on your behalf. It s… 3
  5. Rabbit R1 n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 An orange square that was going to replace your phone with an AI, announced in January 2024 to applause and reviewed in April as an Android app in a … 2
  6. Radev Returns n. ◐ Dying 2026– The result of Bulgaria's election on 19 April 2026, in which the Progressive Bulgaria coalition led by former President Rumen Radev won 44 per cent o… 2
  7. Raft n. ● Alive 2018– A co-op survival game on a raft, in which flotsam is hooked out of the sea and a shark eats the raft while you build it, released into early access i… 3
  8. RAG abbr. ● Alive 2020– Retrieval-augmented generation: look things up first, then let the model answer. Documents are turned into embeddings, the relevant chunks are fetche… 4
  9. Rage Applying n. ◐ Dying 2023– Applying to twenty jobs in an evening after a bad day at your current one. Named in 2023, and one of the few workplace trends that describes somethin… 2
  10. Rage Bait n. ◐ Dying 2013– Content designed to make you angry enough to reply. Word of the Year in 2025, which in this dictionary is a prognosis rather than a prize. 0
  11. Rage Comic n. ☠ Dead 2008–2013 Crude faces in panels, drawn badly on purpose. The last meme format that required its audience to make something rather than caption something. 2
  12. Rage Farming n. ● Alive 2022– Posting deliberately to provoke fury, because furious people reply, and replies are reach — rage farming — a term coined in January 2022 by researche… 2
  13. Rage Guy n. ▲ Fossil 2008–2014 The crudely drawn screaming head that closed the first rage comic in 2008 — a four-panel story about a toilet, a splash and a man shouting 'FFFFFUUUU… 2
  14. Rage Quit v. ● Alive 2005– Leaving a game in anger, mid-match. Extended to jobs, relationships and group chats without loss of meaning. 0
  15. Ragnarok Online n. ◐ Dying 2002– A 2D-sprites-in-3D-world MMORPG based on a Korean comic, with a Norse setting and a soundtrack people still hum. It was the game of Southeast Asia an… 4
  16. Raid (Twitch) n. ● Alive 2017– Sending one's audience to another stream at the end of one's own — a raid — as Twitch's kindest mechanic, in which the word for an attack became a gi… 3
  17. Raid: Shadow Legends Sponsor n. ◐ Dying 2019– The sponsored segment for a mobile fantasy game that appeared in, by common estimate, most of YouTube in 2019 and 2020 — 'this video is sponsored by … 3
  18. Rainbow Friends n. ◐ Dying 2022– A Roblox horror game set in an abandoned theme park where colour-coded monsters called Blue, Green, Orange and Purple hunt players who are collecting… 4
  19. RAISE Act n. ● Alive 2025– New York's frontier-model safety law, passed by the legislature in June 2025 and signed by Kathy Hochul in December 2025, requiring the largest devel… 3
  20. Ranked Anxiety n. ● Alive 2020– The dread of playing a competitive mode where the number goes down — so severe that players own the game for years and never press the button. Named … 2
  21. Rare Pepe n. ↺ Undead 2015–2019 A Pepe drawn in a style nobody had seen before, watermarked and traded as if it were a collectible — the rare Pepe — from a 2015 joke about scarcity … 3
  22. Rarible n. ◐ Dying 2020– An early open marketplace, launched in 2020, where anyone could mint and list without invitation, and the first to distribute a governance token to i… 3
  23. Rarity Rank n. ◐ Dying 2021– A number assigned to each NFT in a collection by how uncommon its traits are, computed by third-party sites in 2021 and then by every marketplace: ra… 3
  24. Rat Girl Summer n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 Scurrying about the city eating snacks and not overthinking it. One good video, one summer, and one Guardian explainer that killed it by August. 3
  25. Ratatouille Musical n. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 A musical about the Pixar rat, written collectively on TikTok in the autumn of 2020 — a song here, a set design there — and performed for real on New… 3
  26. Ratio v. ● Alive 2017– To attract more replies than approval, and to be told so. A metric repurposed as an insult, which is the entire history of social media in one word. 0
  27. Raw Milk n. ● Alive 2022– Unpasteurised milk, sold on TikTok as a cure for allergies, gut problems and modernity in general — raw milk — a wellness fixation of 2022 onwards th… 3
  28. Rawdogging v. ● Alive 2024– Sitting through a flight with no screen, no music, no book and no sleep — just the flight map and your thoughts — and posting about it as an achievem… 2
  29. Rawring 20s n. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 The joke, made as 2020 began, that the decade should bring back scene: raccoon-tail extensions, 'rawr xD', neon and a MySpace top eight — the rawring… 3
  30. Raydium Graduation n. ◐ Dying 2024– What happened to the small share of pump.fun tokens that filled their bonding curve: the liquidity, reported at around $12,000 in SOL, moved to a poo… 4
  31. Raygun n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 An Australian academic's breakdancing routine at the Paris Olympics — the kangaroo hop, the sprinkler — that scored zero and became the Games' bigges… 3
  32. Raúl Castro Indicted n. ● Alive 2026– The indictment of Raúl Castro by the United States on 20 May 2026 in connection with the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft. A charge … 2
  33. Reaction Video n. ● Alive 2010– A person watching something and reacting, on camera, as the content — from 'kids react' in 2010 to a whole economy of streamers watching videos in 20… 3
  34. Read Receipts n. ● Alive 2011– The small notice that a message was seen — 'Read 14:02' — and the argument about whether to leave them on, which divides the honest from the sane. Th… 2
  35. Ready or Not n. ● Alive 2021– A tactical shooter in which a SWAT team clears buildings, released into early access in December 2021 and briefly the most argued-about game on Steam… 3
  36. Real interj. ● Alive 2021– 'Real' — agreement that something is true and also felt — as the 2021–23 reply to any relatable statement, with 'so real' for emphasis and 'real and … 3
  37. Reasoning Model n. ● Alive 2024– A model trained to think before it answers: it writes a long, usually hidden chain of thought, checks itself, and only then replies, taking seconds o… 4
  38. Reasons to Get a Bob n. ● Alive 2026– A hard-cut list format set to 'FREAKED OUT', in which creators enumerate reasons to cut a bob, one per beat: 'my ex hated short hair', 'it's August',… 3
  39. Rebecca Black Grammys Redemption n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The internet's periodic realisation that the 'Friday' singer, mocked at thirteen, had become a respected pop artist, which peaked in early 2025 aroun… 2
  40. Reblog v. ● Alive 2007– To repost with a comment attached, so that the post grows as it travels — the reblog — as Tumblr's core verb and the form that made its posts into lo… 3
  41. Rec Room n. ● Alive 2016– A social platform of user-built games and rooms with stick-limbed avatars, started in VR and spread to consoles and phones. The record's entry for th… 4
  42. Receipts n. ● Alive 2013– Screenshots proving what someone said. The reason nobody deletes anything and the reason everyone should. 3
  43. Recession Indicators n. ● Alive 2025– The game of declaring any cultural sign an economic omen: Lady Gaga releasing dance music, hemlines, the return of the indie sleaze party, a good pop… 3
  44. Red Arrow Thumbnail n. ● Alive 2014– The thick red arrow pointing at something in a thumbnail — a small object, a face, nothing — as the mid-2010s YouTube convention for saying 'look her… 2
  45. Red Dead Redemption 2 n. ● Alive 2018– Rockstar's slow western, released in October 2018 to the biggest opening weekend in entertainment at the time and an internet that could not believe … 4
  46. Red Flag Emoji n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 A dealbreaker followed by a row of red flags. Twitter reported 1.5 million uses in a single day in October 2021; brands had arrived by Thursday. 2
  47. Red Light Mask n. ● Alive 2024– A hard plastic mask glowing red, worn for ten minutes a day for collagen and content, which became the skincare gadget of 2024–25 and the reason a lo… 2
  48. Red Pill n. ● Alive 2010– The pill from The Matrix that shows the truth, adopted by online communities — first about relationships, then about everything — as the word for a c… 3
  49. Red Solo Cup n. ▲ Fossil 2011–2015 A country drinking song addressed to a disposable plastic cup, which gathered four million YouTube views in November 2011 and turned an item of party… 3
  50. Red Sus phr. ☠ Dead 2020–2021 The Among Us reflex of accusing the red crewmate because red is the colour on the box art, typed 'red sus' in a thousand lobbies a minute in autumn 2… 3
  51. Red Teaming (AI) n. ● Alive 2022– Paying people to attack your own model before the public does: asking it for weapons recipes, trying to make it lie, seeing what it does with a malic… 4
  52. Red v Blue School Wars n. ◐ Dying 2026– A 2026 viral phenomenon centred on London in which TikTok and Snapchat posts promoted fights between pupils from different schools, labelled red or b… 2
  53. Red Wedding Reactions n. ☠ Dead 2013–2013 The videos of people watching the ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, filmed by friends who had read the books and knew what was co… 4
  54. Redacted Remilio Babies n. ◐ Dying 2022– Ten thousand small, wide-eyed anime children with censor bars and street clothes, released by Remilia Collective in September 2022 as a sibling to it… 3
  55. Redbone n. ● Alive 2016– A 2016 Childish Gambino single that became a meme in early 2017 through remixes fitting the vocal to whatever theme the editor had in mind. The song … 3
  56. Redbone (Girl Scout Cookies) n. ☠ Dead 2017–2018 A six-year-old selling Girl Scout cookies with her father, filmed to Childish Gambino's Redbone. Her sales reportedly went through the roof, and she … 3
  57. Reddit Blackout n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 Thousands of subreddits going private in June 2023 to protest the pricing that killed third-party apps, which produced two days of a broken website, … 3
  58. Reddit Collectible Avatars n. ◐ Dying 2022– Profile-picture NFTs sold by Reddit from July 2022 without using the word 'NFT', minted on Polygon into a built-in wallet called the Vault, and adopt… 4
  59. Reddit Moment n. ● Alive 2019– A moment of behaviour so characteristic of Reddit — a pun chain, a 'this', an atheist in a cooking thread — that it must be named. The record's entry… 3
  60. Reddit Story Voice n. ● Alive 2022– A synthetic voice reading a Reddit post — 'am I the asshole for…' — over game footage, as the 2022–24 genre that turned forum posts into television. … 2