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  1. Sad Beige Mom n. ● Alive 2022– A parody of the minimalist parenting aesthetic — beige toys, beige clothes, a beige nursery — narrated by a comedian in the voice of a Werner Herzog … 3
  2. Sad Cat Thumbs Up n. ● Alive 2018– The crying cat, with a thumb up — 'it's fine, I'm fine' — as the reaction for accepting bad news with false composure. The record's entry for the cat… 2
  3. Sad Girl n. ↺ Undead 2012–2017 Lana Del Rey lyrics over film stills, a cigarette, a tear, a caption about being tired — the sad girl — as the 2012 Tumblr aesthetic that made melanc… 2
  4. Sad Hamster n. ◐ Dying 2024– A hamster with enormous wet eyes, edited to look up at you while a sad violin plays, which became the reaction of early 2024 for any minor disappoint… 2
  5. Sad Keanu n. ☠ Dead 2010–2014 A paparazzi photograph of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a bench in New York, which the internet in June 2010 decided was the saddest image … 3
  6. Sadge n. ● Alive 2020– A sad Pepe emote, and the word for being sad in Twitch chat and everywhere it leaked: 'sadge'. The record's entry for the emote that became the milde… 3
  7. Safe interj. ● Alive 1995– 'Thanks', 'okay', 'good' — 'safe' — as the London slang word that does the job of five, and the record's entry for the acknowledgement that means eve… 2
  8. Safe Superintelligence n. ● Alive 2024– The company Ilya Sutskever announced in June 2024, a month after leaving OpenAI, with a one-page website, one product goal and no plan to ship anythi… 3
  9. SafeMoon n. ☠ Dead 2021–2023 A token launched in March 2021 with a 10 percent fee on every sale, part of it paid back to holders, and the slogan 'safely to the moon'. It became t… 2
  10. SAG-AFTRA AI Provisions n. ● Alive 2023– The clauses in the November 2023 contract that ended the 118-day actors' strike, requiring informed consent and compensation before a performer's dig… 3
  11. Sage n. ◐ Dying 2003– Replying to a thread without bumping it — typing 'sage' in the email field — as a way of commenting on something without giving it attention. From a … 3
  12. Sagrada Família Tower n. ◐ Dying 2026– The blessing of the Sagrada Família's tallest tower by Pope Leo XIV in Barcelona on 10 June 2026, exactly one hundred years after the death of Antoni… 3
  13. Sahil Arora n. ◐ Dying 2024– A Dubai-based promoter who, by his own account and by several celebrities' complaints, arranged the celebrity coin launches of May and June 2024, inc… 2
  14. Saja Boys n. ● Alive 2025– The demon boy band from KPop Demon Hunters, whose song 'Soda Pop' and whose faces caused an internet-wide admission that the villains were the point.… 3
  15. Salad Fingers n. ◐ Dying 2004– David Firth's green, long-fingered hermit who loves rusty spoons and talks to finger puppets in a wasteland, launched on Newgrounds in July 2004 and … 3
  16. Salmon in the River n. ☠ Dead 2022–2023 The prompt 'salmon in the river' rendered as supermarket fillets floating downstream, pink and boneless, which DALL-E Mini produced because most phot… 3
  17. Salomon n. ◐ Dying 2023– A French trail-running shoe with a quick-lace and a technical look, which became the fashion shoe of 2023 on people who had never run a trail. The re… 3
  18. Salt Bae n. ☠ Dead 2017–2017 A chef sprinkling salt down his forearm. Turned into a restaurant chain charging $1,000 for gold-wrapped steak, the fastest documented conversion of … 0
  19. Saltburn Bathwater n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 The scene in Saltburn that everyone described without describing, and the January 2024 wave of memes, candles, and a 2001 Sophie Ellis-Bextor song ba… 3
  20. Salty adj. ● Alive 2012– Bitter about losing. Older than the internet as sailors' slang and given a second, permanent life by people who had just lost at Street Fighter. 1
  21. Salty (Slang) adj. ● Alive 1938– Bitter, annoyed, a sore loser — 'salty' — from 1930s American slang via AAVE into gaming and the 2015 internet, where it described anyone upset about… 2
  22. Saluting Face n. ● Alive 2021– 🫡 — 'o7', the salute, as an emoji: for acknowledging an order you will follow, a friend's decision you respect, or a message you have read and will … 3
  23. Sam Altman n. ● Alive 2019– OpenAI's chief executive since 2019, the former head of Y Combinator, who testified to Congress in May 2023 asking to be regulated, was fired by his … 3
  24. Sam Altman Stealing GPUs n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The first week of the Sora app, in which the company's chief executive had made his likeness available and the internet used it exclusively to show h… 2
  25. Sam Sulek n. ● Alive 2023– A very large college student filming long, calm gym vlogs from his car, whose size, diet and monologues made him the gym internet's main character of… 2
  26. Same interj. ● Alive 2014– 'Same' — agreement with a feeling, in one word, as the reply to a picture of a dog asleep on a stair. The record's entry for the shortest possible so… 3
  27. Samoyedcoin n. ◐ Dying 2021– A white fluffy dog on Solana, launched in April 2021 and styled as the chain's ambassador, at a time when every chain needed a dog and Solana's was t… 3
  28. Sample Text n. ☠ Dead 2014–2018 The words 'Sample Text' in a default font, floating across an MLG parody video where a caption should be — as the joke about an editor who forgot to … 3
  29. Sandwich Guy n. ● Alive 2025– A man who threw a Subway sandwich at federal officers, was charged, and was later acquitted. 'Hero with a hero' — the sandwich being the hero, in the… 2
  30. Sanic n. ◐ Dying 2010– A badly drawn Sonic the Hedgehog — a blue scribble with one eye and the caption 'Sanic' — drawn in a 2010 YouTube video by a user showing how to 'dra… 2
  31. Saori Araki n. ● Alive 2025– A single photograph — a Japanese model in a grey suit, bob haircut, cheeks puffed, holding a laptop — that eighty million people mistook for the plat… 2
  32. Sapa n. ● Alive 2020– Brokeness, personified — 'sapa' is the state of having no money and the spirit that puts one there, discussed on Nigerian Twitter from about 2020 as … 3
  33. Saratoga Water n. ● Alive 2025– A blue glass bottle of spring water that became a status object overnight because a man dunked his face in a bowl of it at four in the morning on cam… 3
  34. Sasaeng n. ● Alive 2011– A fan who invades an idol's private life — following taxis, obtaining phone numbers, breaking into dorms — the Korean 'sasaeng', a word international… 3
  35. Sassy Justice n. ☠ Dead 2020–2020 A fourteen-minute local-news parody starring a deepfaked Donald Trump as a Cheyenne consumer reporter named Fred Sassy, plus deepfaked Al Gore, Mark … 3
  36. Satisfactory n. ● Alive 2019– A first-person factory game on an alien planet, released into early access in March 2019 as an Epic exclusive, which caused the year's angriest launc… 3
  37. Satya Nadella n. ● Alive 2014– Microsoft's chief executive since 2014, who backed OpenAI in 2019 when it was a research lab with a modest reputation, put its models into Bing and t… 3
  38. Sauce n. ● Alive 2008– A request for where an image came from. Now asked about everything, and answered about almost nothing. 1
  39. Saudade (Meme) n. ● Alive 2014– The Portuguese word for longing for something absent — which the internet's 'untranslatable words' listicles of the mid-2010s made famous, which Braz… 2
  40. Savage adj. ◐ Dying 2015– Brutally honest, approvingly. Was a Megan Thee Stallion single, and the single outlived the adjective. 2
  41. Savannah Bananas n. ● Alive 2023– A baseball team that plays a version of the game with dancing, time limits, a batter on stilts and rules designed for TikTok, which sold out stadiums… 2
  42. Say It Louder for the People in the Back phr. ◐ Dying 2016– The instruction to repeat a good point for those who missed it — 'say it louder for the people in the back' — as the mid-2010s' loudest agreement. Th… 3
  43. Say Less phr. ● Alive 2018– 'You don't need to say more — I'm in.' Agreement that saves everyone time, from AAVE into the mainstream by 2019 and now a stock reply in every group… 2
  44. Say Sike Right Now phr. ● Alive 2018– 'Say sike right now' — the demand that a statement be retracted immediately, as if the speaker could take it back by saying the 1990s word for 'just … 3
  45. Say So Dance n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 The hip-swaying, finger-pointing routine Haley Sharpe made for Doja Cat's 'Say So' in December 2019, which pushed the song to Number One in May 2020 … 3
  46. Say Wallahi Bro phr. ● Alive 2026– IShowSpeed, wet-eyed, demanding 'say wallahi bro' — swear to God — from someone who has just told him something he cannot accept. Used as the reactio… 3
  47. SB 1047 n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 California's frontier-model bill, which would have required safety testing and a 'kill switch' for models costing over 100 million dollars to train, … 4
  48. SB 53 n. ● Alive 2025– The successor to the vetoed SB 1047: a narrower California law requiring the largest developers to publish safety frameworks, report critical inciden… 3
  49. Scale AI n. ● Alive 2016– The data-labelling company founded in 2016 that supplied the annotated data and, later, the human feedback behind many of the big models, then became… 3
  50. Scaling Laws n. ● Alive 2020– The finding that a language model's error falls in a smooth, predictable line as you add parameters, data and compute, across many orders of magnitud… 4
  51. Scene Kid n. ☠ Dead 2006–2011 Neon, side fringes, raccoon tails and a MySpace name with an X in it. The last subculture to be organised around a single website. 4
  52. Scenecore n. ◐ Dying 2020– Neon, coon-tail hair, Invader Zim, checkerboard, a MySpace layout and a 'rawr' — scenecore — as the 2020 TikTok revival of the 2006 scene kid, done b… 2
  53. Schedule I n. ● Alive 2025– An indie game about building a drug empire in a small town, made by one developer and played by every streamer at once in spring 2025. The customers'… 3
  54. Scientology Runs n. ◐ Dying 2026– A speedrunning-style trend in which creators walked into Scientology centres — the Hollywood one especially — and timed how far they could get before… 3
  55. Scooby Doo Papa n. ☠ Dead 2017–2019 A song and dance video by the New York DJ DJ Kass, recreated widely across social media by people copying the routine. It peaked at number nine on th… 3
  56. Scottish Twitter n. ● Alive 2014– The Scots dialect, typed phonetically, applied to everyday disasters — 'ma maw', 'a wee', 'yer da' — as the internet's most reliably funny community,… 3
  57. Screamer n. ◐ Dying 2002– A video or game that lulls you and then screams — a screamer — as the early-2000s prank that put a ghost's face in a maze game and a generation off t… 2
  58. Screaming adj. ● Alive 2014– 'Screaming' — typed in capitals, alone, by a person who is not screaming, as the reaction to something so funny or shocking that a full sentence is i… 2
  59. Screen Time (Shame) n. ● Alive 2018– The weekly report of hours spent on a phone — and the screenshot of it, posted as a confession: 'my screen time this week 😭'. The record's entry for… 2
  60. Screensaver n. ▲ Fossil 1983–2015 The animation that took over an idle monitor to stop images burning into the phosphor — flying toasters from 1989, Windows' 3D pipes and maze from th… 3