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  1. T-Series War n. ☠ Dead 2018–2019 The 2018–2019 contest for the most-subscribed YouTube channel between PewDiePie and T-Series, an Indian music label, which the internet treated as a … 3
  2. T9 n. ▲ Fossil 1997–2012 'Text on 9 keys' — the predictive typing on a numeric keypad, from 1997, that let a person write a message by pressing each key once and trusting the… 3
  3. Ta Ta Ta Ta Sahur n. ● Alive 2025– A variant of Tung Tung Tung Sahur — a different rhythm, a different log, sometimes a different weapon — that the fandom treated as a cousin or a riva… 3
  4. Table Layout n. ☠ Dead 1996–2008 Building a page out of nested spreadsheet cells because there was nothing else. Every designer over forty can still feel the colspan in their hands. 0
  5. Tactical Timeout n. ● Alive 2015– The thirty-second pause a team can call in Counter-Strike (added to the game in 2015) and Valorant to stop a losing streak, during which the coach sp… 3
  6. Takaichi Landslide n. ◐ Dying 2026– The result of Japan's general election of 8 February 2026, in which Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide and secured a supermajority. The re… 2
  7. Take It Down Act n. ● Alive 2024– The first US federal law against non-consensual intimate imagery including AI deepfakes: it criminalises publishing such images and requires platform… 3
  8. Take the L phr. ● Alive 2017– Accept the loss — 'take the L' — from gaming into everything, and the Fortnite emote that made it a dance done over a defeated opponent. The record's… 2
  9. Talk to Transformer n. ☠ Dead 2019–2021 The website where most people first typed a sentence and watched a model continue it: a plain text box over GPT-2, built by an independent developer … 3
  10. Talking Angela n. ● Alive 2012– A white cat in Paris that chats with the player by text, and the subject of a 2013 and 2014 chain-letter hoax claiming a man could be seen in her eye… 4
  11. Talking Baby Podcast n. ◐ Dying 2025– Generated babies in headphones, hosting a podcast about their day — the nap, the bottle, the betrayal of the dummy — with adult voices. A subgenre of… 2
  12. Talking Stage n. ● Alive 2019– The period before dating in which two people text constantly and are not anything — the talking stage — as Gen Z's name for a state that older genera… 3
  13. Talking Tom n. ● Alive 2010– A grey cat that repeats what the player says in a high voice and can be poked, fed and dressed, later expanded into a family of apps and a cartoon. T… 4
  14. Talpa di Fero n. ● Alive 2025– A mole with an iron drill for a nose, tunnelling through everything in the narration. The genre's engineer, and one of the few characters with a job. 3
  15. Tamagotchi n. ↺ Undead 1996–2002 The egg-shaped keychain pet from Bandai, released in Japan in November 1996, that needed feeding, cleaning and attention every few hours or it died, … 3
  16. TanaCon n. ☠ Dead 2018–2018 A YouTuber convention organised by Tana Mongeau in June 2018 as a rival to VidCon, which sold thousands of tickets for a venue that could hold hundre… 3
  17. Tanghulu n. ◐ Dying 2023– The candied fruit skewer — strawberries or grapes dipped in hard sugar syrup that shatters when bitten — 'tanghulu', a Chinese street snack that beca… 2
  18. Taproot Wizards n. ● Alive 2023– A crude wizard drawing from a 2013 Bitcoin forum meme, inscribed in February 2023 as a nearly four-megabyte image filling an entire block, mined by L… 3
  19. TAS abbr. ● Alive 2003– 'Tool-assisted speedrun' — a run made with save states and frame advance, perfect and impossible, as the speedrunning world's separate category and i… 3
  20. Task Failed Successfully phr. ● Alive 2017– A genuine Windows error message that said the task had failed successfully, screenshotted in 2017 and adopted as the caption for any outcome that is … 2
  21. Task Masking n. ● Alive 2025– Looking busy in an office you have been made to return to: the loud keyboard, the walk with a laptop, the Teams status set to 'in a meeting'. Named i… 2
  22. Task Scam n. ● Alive 2023– A job scam in which the 'work' is clicking to rate products or 'optimise' listings, small payments arrive to build trust, and then the tasks require … 2
  23. Tay n. ▲ Fossil 2016–2016 Microsoft's Twitter chatbot, launched on 23 March 2016 to talk like a teenager and taken offline the next day after users taught it to post racist an… 4
  24. Taylor Made Freestyle n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A Drake diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar that opened with AI-generated verses in the voices of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, the two rappers Lamar r… 4
  25. Taylor Swift Deepfakes n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift that spread across X in late January 2024, with one post reportedly viewed tens of millions of … 2
  26. Taylor Swift Engagement n. ● Alive 2025– The Instagram post of 26 August 2025 — 'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married' — announcing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's e… 3
  27. Taylor Swift Le Creuset Ads n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A run of social-media adverts in January 2024 with a cloned Taylor Swift voice over real footage, telling fans she was giving away Le Creuset cookwar… 3
  28. Taylor's Version n. ● Alive 2021– The suffix on Taylor Swift's re-recorded albums — '(Taylor's Version)' — from 'Fearless' in April 2021, made after her original masters were sold wit… 2
  29. TBF abbr. ● Alive 2008– 'To be fair' — the acronym that softens a disagreement before it lands, born on late-2000s forums and now the opening of half of all replies on Twitt… 2
  30. TBH abbr. ● Alive 2004– 'To be honest' — the prefix for opinions, and, in 2015, a whole teenage Instagram genre: 'like for a tbh', in which you were given an honest sentence… 3
  31. TBT abbr. ◐ Dying 2011– 'Throwback Thursday' — the weekly permission to post an old photo, from 2011 Instagram into a habit that no longer needs the Thursday. The record's e… 2
  32. TCG Card Shop Simulator n. ● Alive 2024– A shop simulator in which the shop sells trading cards, and the player opens packs they cannot afford between customers, released into early access i… 3
  33. Tea App n. ● Alive 2023– The women-only app for sharing warnings and 'red flag' reviews of men they had dated — 'Tea' — launched in 2023, top of the App Store in July 2025, a… 2
  34. Teabagging n. ● Alive 2001– Crouching repeatedly over a defeated opponent's body in a shooter, a gesture of contempt performed in Halo from 2001 and industrialised by Xbox Live … 3
  35. Team Conrad n. ☠ Dead 2022–2025 The love-triangle allegiance of a teen drama — Conrad or Jeremiah — which ran for three summers and ended in September 2025 with a finale that the in… 3
  36. Team Fortress 2 n. ● Alive 2007– Nine cartoon mercenaries, a Pixar look and, from 2009, hats. Valve's class shooter became the first game with a functioning virtual economy: keys, re… 4
  37. Tebowing v. ☠ Dead 2011–2012 Kneeling in prayer on one knee wherever you happened to be. Trademarked by the quarterback in 2012, which is the moment a gesture stops being funny. 0
  38. Tech Support Scam n. ● Alive 2008– A fraud in which 'Microsoft' phones to say your computer has a virus, or a pop-up screams it, and the fix requires remote access and a fee — the tech… 3
  39. Technical Debt n. ● Alive 1992– The cost of doing something quickly now that must be repaid slowly later — technical debt — from a 1992 metaphor into the reason every project is lat… 3
  40. Techno Viking n. ▲ Fossil 2007–2013 A shirtless, muscled man at Berlin's 2000 Fuckparade who stops a fight, points down the street and then dances to techno with terrifying purpose, in … 3
  41. Technoblade Never Dies phr. ● Alive 2019– The catchphrase of the Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade, coined as a boast about surviving in-game and, after his death from cancer at 23 in June 2022,… 3
  42. Tekkers n. ◐ Dying 2005– Short for 'technique', popularised by the Saturday morning show Soccer AM in the 2000s: 'unbelievable tekkers' meant a moment of skill, said in a voi… 3
  43. Telegram Deepfake Bots n. ● Alive 2020– The network of Telegram bots, first documented by a research firm in October 2020, that took a photograph of a woman and returned a synthetic nude, h… 2
  44. Tell Me Without Telling Me phr. ☠ Dead 2020–2022 'Tell me you're British without telling me you're British' — a prompt for indirect evidence, answered with a photo of a teabag or a video of a queue,… 2
  45. Temperature (AI) n. ● Alive 2019– The dial that controls how adventurous a model's next word is. At zero it always picks the likeliest token and repeats itself; higher, it samples fro… 4
  46. Temple Run n. ◐ Dying 2011– An explorer runs from demon monkeys along a temple wall, turning by swipe and jumping by swipe, until the path ends. Made by a married couple in Nort… 4
  47. Temu n. ● Alive 2023– A shopping app that spent enough on adverts to be inescapable in 2023–24, sold things for prices that seemed like typos, and became a meme for the ph… 3
  48. Ten Hag Two Games n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 A manager sacked by a German club three matches into the season, which the internet greeted with the specific joy reserved for a sequel that confirms… 2
  49. Ten Past Ten n. ● Alive 2024– The observation, shared as a test from 2024, that asking an image generator for a clock at any time produces a clock reading ten past ten, because th… 3
  50. Tenda Biru n. ◐ Dying 2016– An older Indonesian song by the actress and singer Desy Ratnasari that went viral again in 2016, when it became attached to the Mannequin Challenge i… 3
  51. Tendies n. ● Alive 2015– Chicken tenders, as the reward a mother gives a grown son in a 2015 greentext, and, from there, as WSB's word for trading profits: 'tendies'. The rec… 2
  52. Tenniscore n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 Pleated skirts, polo shirts, visors and a suggestion of sweat — the Challengers look, worn all summer by people who watched the film for the threesom… 3
  53. Tensor n. ● Alive 2022– A Solana marketplace built for traders rather than collectors — sweeping, bidding and charts first, pictures second — that took much of Magic Eden's … 3
  54. Tensorians n. ◐ Dying 2023– The pixel-faced collection issued by the Solana marketplace Tensor in mid-2023, sold to the platform's own traders and later attached to its token ai… 3
  55. Terminally Online adj. ● Alive 2020– So online that the internet's arguments feel like real life — 'terminally online' — as the 2020 self-diagnosis and insult, used by people who were, b… 3
  56. Terraria n. ● Alive 2011– A two-dimensional dig-build-fight game released in May 2011 that was called a Minecraft clone for about a week, until people found the bosses. It has… 4
  57. Tesla Doge Merch n. ● Alive 2022– The day Tesla's online shop began taking Dogecoin for a small range of merchandise, as promised by its chief executive a month earlier: a whistle sha… 3
  58. Tetris n. ● Alive 1984– Falling tetrominoes, cleared by completing lines, written by a Soviet programmer in 1984 and packed in with every Game Boy from 1989. The record file… 4
  59. Texas A&M ChatGPT Failing n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The May 2023 case of an instructor at Texas A&M University–Commerce who pasted his students' final essays into ChatGPT, asked it whether it had writt… 3
  60. Texas Hold 'Em Dance n. ☠ Dead 2024–2024 A line dance to Beyoncé's first country single, done at weddings, in supermarkets and by every grandmother with a phone in the spring of 2024. Announ… 3