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  1. U Din Din Din Dun n. ● Alive 2025– A character named for the sound its narration makes — a bee-like insect with a human face, or a face with an insect's body, depending on the frame — … 2
  2. U Mad Bro phr. ☠ Dead 2009–2014 'You mad, bro?' — the troll's question to a victim, asked with a Trollface, as the 2009–11 way of declaring victory in an argument by noting the othe… 2
  3. U Up? phr. ● Alive 2013– 'You up?' — the 2 a.m. text that has one purpose and asks it in two characters, as the record's entry for the least romantic sentence in the file and… 2
  4. UAE Leaves OPEC n. ◐ Dying 2026– The departure of the United Arab Emirates from OPEC on 1 May 2026, ending six decades of membership. The record files it as a 2026 event; online it c… 2
  5. Uber for X n. ☠ Dead 2012–2017 An app that summoned a stranger to do a thing. Uber for laundry, for dog walking, for parking; none survived, and neither, quite, did the model. 4
  6. Ubisoft Quartz n. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 Ubisoft's platform for selling in-game cosmetics as NFTs, called 'Digits', launched in a six-year-old game in December 2021 with a trailer that colle… 4
  7. Udio n. ● Alive 2024– The music generator launched in April 2024 by former DeepMind researchers, which the internet knew within a week because a comedian used it to make a… 3
  8. UFO 50 n. ● Alive 2024– A collection of fifty complete games styled as the lost catalogue of a fictional 1980s console, released in September 2024 after eight years of work … 3
  9. Ugandan Knuckles n. ☠ Dead 2017–2018 A misshapen echidna asking whether you know the way. Lasted one winter and got people banned from a virtual-reality chat room, which was a novel plac… 1
  10. Ugg Tasman n. ◐ Dying 2023– A slipper — a slipper — from a sheepskin brand, worn outside in 2023 by everyone who had a TikTok and a school run. The record's entry for the year t… 2
  11. UK AI Safety Institute n. ● Alive 2023– The British body announced at the Bletchley summit in November 2023 as the first state-backed organisation dedicated to testing frontier models befor… 3
  12. Ukulele Apology n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 The name given to a ten-minute apology video, uploaded by the YouTuber Colleen Ballinger on 28 June 2023, in which she responded to allegations about… 3
  13. Ult n. ● Alive 2015– Short for 'ultimate' — a fan's ult bias or ult group is the one above all others, the favourite in a fandom where having many favourites is the norm … 3
  14. Ultima Online n. ◐ Dying 1997– The first MMORPG to reach a hundred thousand subscribers, with a player-driven economy, houses you could lose, and full player-versus-player theft an… 4
  15. Ultimate Chicken Horse n. ◐ Dying 2016– Four animals take turns placing a trap on a platform level, then all of them have to run it, and points only come if some of you fail. Made in Montre… 4
  16. Ultimate Team n. ● Alive 2009– EA's card-collecting mode in FIFA (now EA FC), launched as paid downloadable content in March 2009, in which players open packs of virtual footballer… 3
  17. Ultrakill n. ● Alive 2020– A first-person shooter about a robot in hell that refuels on blood, made by one Finnish developer with the speed of Quake and a style rating that rew… 3
  18. Umamusume n. ● Alive 2025– A Japanese game about horse girls — racehorses reborn as anime students — which arrived in the West in June 2025 and immediately produced a fandom, a… 3
  19. Unalive v. ● Alive 2021– To die, in a form the content filter will let through. The first widely used euphemism invented for a machine rather than a person. 1
  20. Unboxing n. ● Alive 2006– Opening a box on camera, slowly, with commentary — from phones in 2006 to toys in 2016 (when a child unboxing made millions) to blind boxes in 2025. … 3
  21. Unc n. ● Alive 2023– Short for uncle, applied by Gen Z and Gen Alpha to any man over about thirty who is still trying — 'unc status', 'that's unc behaviour' — from Black … 2
  22. Uncanny Valley n. ● Alive 1970– Mori's 1970 hypothesis that a robot or image becomes more likeable as it looks more human, right up until it looks almost human, when likeability col… 4
  23. Under Construction GIF n. ↺ Undead 1995–2001 An animated workman, digging, forever. Admitted that a page was unfinished — a form of honesty the modern web has not replaced. 5
  24. Underconsumption Core n. ● Alive 2024– Posting the things you already own — the old phone, the one pair of trainers, the half-used lipstick — as an aesthetic, in the summer of 2024. Frugal… 2
  25. Underrated Comment n. ● Alive 2010– 'Underrated comment' — the reply to a comment that deserves more likes, posted by someone who then gets more likes than it — as the internet's most s… 3
  26. Understandable, Have a Nice Day phr. ◐ Dying 2017– The polite exit from a conversation that has gone nowhere — 'understandable, have a nice day' — from a 2017 parody of a game company's customer servi… 3
  27. Understood the Assignment phr. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 Did the thing exactly right, said about a costume or a performance. Used by brands within the quarter; retired by everyone else within the year. 0
  28. Undertaker 1998 phr. ● Alive 2017– The Reddit copypasta ending — 'in nineteen ninety eight, the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plunged sixteen feet through an announc… 3
  29. Undertale 10th Anniversary n. ☠ Dead 2025–2025 The tenth birthday of Undertale, marked by a wave of 'I was thirteen when this came out' posts and a general reckoning with the age of everyone who h… 2
  30. Unfollow v. ● Alive 2007– To stop following, and the small social death of noticing you have been unfollowed, tracked by apps built for the purpose. The record's entry for the… 3
  31. Unfriend v. ● Alive 2007– To remove someone from your friends list. Word of the Year in 2009, and one of only two in this dictionary to have survived the title. 5
  32. Unhinged adj. ● Alive 2021– Chaotic, unfiltered, slightly worrying — 'unhinged' — as the internet's compliment of 2021–22 for anything that abandoned composure: a tweet, a hairc… 3
  33. Unicorn (Startup) n. ● Alive 2013– A private company valued at a billion dollars, named for its rarity in 2013, when there were 39, and used since about a thousand of them, which is no… 2
  34. United Breaks Guitars n. ▲ Fossil 2009–2013 A country song by Sons of Maxwell about United Airlines breaking Dave Carroll's guitar and refusing to pay for it. It reached 11 million views, was n… 3
  35. Unity Runtime Fee n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A game engine announced it would charge developers per install, retroactively, and the entire industry responded within hours with a wave of memes, t… 2
  36. Universal Paperclips n. ☠ Dead 2017–2018 A button that makes a paperclip, then an AI that makes paperclips, then an AI that has converted all matter in the universe into paperclips. A browse… 4
  37. Unnie n. ● Alive 2010– 'Older sister' — the Korean term a woman uses for an older woman, which K-pop fandom applied to female idols and which international fans now use for… 2
  38. Unpacking n. ● Alive 2021– A puzzle game in which you unpack boxes in eight homes across a woman's life and learn who she is from where she puts her mug, released in November 2… 3
  39. Unpopular Opinion n. ● Alive 2011– 'Unpopular opinion:' — the prefix for an opinion that is, in nearly every case, extremely popular: 'unpopular opinion: pizza is good'. The record's e… 2
  40. Unreal Keanu n. ◐ Dying 2021– A TikTok account starring a deepfaked Keanu Reeves in short lifestyle skits, dancing, cooking, reacting, with millions of followers who mostly knew a… 3
  41. Unreal Tournament n. ☠ Dead 1999–2022 The arena shooter that shipped three weeks before Quake III Arena and split the deathmatch community in two. Its announcer, who shouted 'Headshot' an… 4
  42. Unrecord (Trailer) n. ☠ Dead 2023–2023 A gameplay trailer for a body-camera shooter, released in April 2023 by a small French studio, so photorealistic that the internet spent a week debat… 3
  43. Unregistered HyperCam 2 n. ▲ Fossil 2006–2014 The watermark 'Unregistered HyperCam 2' in the top-left corner of a screen recording — as the badge of the mid-2000s YouTube tutorial made by a child… 3
  44. Unsettled Tom n. ◐ Dying 2019– Tom the cat, lying down with an expression of deep unease, as the 2019 caption for hearing something you wish you had not. The record's entry for the… 3
  45. Unspoken Rizz n. ● Alive 2022– Charisma so complete that no words are needed — unspoken rizz — as the highest tier of the rizz taxonomy, and the record's entry for the attraction t… 2
  46. Unsubscribe Hell n. ● Alive 2014– The experience of trying to leave a subscription that was one click to join — a phone line, a chat agent, a retention offer, a 'are you sure', anothe… 3
  47. Untitled Goose Game n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 A game in which you are a horrible goose in an English village with a to-do list of small crimes, released in September 2019 by four people in Melbou… 4
  48. Unturned n. ◐ Dying 2014– A free zombie survival game with blocky characters, made by a sixteen-year-old in Canada and released on Steam in July 2014, where it sat in the most… 4
  49. Unus Annus n. ☠ Dead 2019–2020 A YouTube channel launched on 15 November 2019 by Markiplier and Ethan Nestor with a single premise — one video a day for one year, then the whole ch… 3
  50. Up Challenge n. ☠ Dead 2021–2021 The fast, hand-heavy routine to Cardi B's 'Up' — released 5 February 2021 with the chorus 'if it's up then it's stuck' — which carried the song to Nu… 3
  51. US Leaves the WHO n. ● Alive 2026– The formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization on 22 January 2026. The record files the date on which the withdrawal t… 2
  52. USB-C n. ● Alive 2014– The oval, reversible connector finalised in August 2014, which promised one cable for everything and delivered one shape for everything, with the spe… 3
  53. Use This Sound phr. ● Alive 2020– The creator's plea appended to an original audio — 'use this sound', 'pls use my sound' — in the hope that other videos will carry it to the For You … 2
  54. Useless n. ◐ Dying 2025– A mascot whose entire pitch was that it was useless — no roadmap, no utility, no promises — which became, for a summer, the most honest thing in the … 2
  55. Utility (NFT) n. ● Alive 2021– What an NFT was supposed to do for you besides be a picture: access to a Discord, a game, an event, merchandise, an airdrop, a vote. Every 2021 proje… 3
  56. Utopian Scholastic n. ● Alive 2020– Collaged globes, dinosaurs, Renaissance heads, planets and children's drawings on a white ground — Utopian Scholastic — as CARI's 2020 name for the l… 3
  57. UwU n. ● Alive 2005– 'UwU' — a face of extreme cuteness, eyes closed, mouth a small w — and 'OwO', its surprised sibling, from anime and furry communities into the mainst… 2