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Records in X

Letter by letter, 60 at a time

  1. X All the Y phr. ☠ Dead 2010–2015 The stick-figure with the broom and the manic grin from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half post about adulthood, June 2010, captioned 'Clean ALL the … 3
  2. X Payments Doge Hopes n. ● Alive 2022– The rumour, revived every few months since 2022, that Twitter, renamed X, is about to accept Dogecoin for payments. Its high point was April 2023, wh… 4
  3. X Premium n. ● Alive 2023– The subscription that Twitter Blue became when Twitter became X in July 2023, sold in Basic, Premium and Premium+ tiers, granting a checkmark, longer… 2
  4. X Rebrand n. ◐ Dying 2023– The week the bird was replaced with a letter, the sign was taken off the building with a crane, and the whole internet refused to stop saying 'tweet'… 2
  5. X2Y2 n. ☠ Dead 2022–2025 The second marketplace to launch by airdropping tokens to OpenSea users, in February 2022, and the first major one to make creator royalties optional… 4
  6. xAI n. ● Alive 2023– Elon Musk's AI company, announced in July 2023 with a stated goal of understanding the universe, maker of Grok and builder of the Colossus data centr… 3
  7. xAI Memphis Turbines n. ● Alive 2025– The dispute over the gas turbines powering xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, which lawyers and residents said had run for months without air p… 3
  8. Xanga n. ☠ Dead 1999–2013 A blog with eProps, where every teenager wrote a diary in public and nobody's parents knew. Asked its users for $60,000 to stay alive and did not qui… 4
  9. Xania Monet n. ◐ Dying 2025– An R&B singer with a generated face and voice whose lyrics are written by a poet from Mississippi, and who entered a Billboard sales chart in Septemb… 3
  10. Xbox One Reveal n. ☠ Dead 2013–2013 Microsoft's May 2013 unveiling of the Xbox One, a console described as an all-in-one entertainment device with a daily online check-in, restrictions … 4
  11. Xbox Series S n. ● Alive 2020– Microsoft's small, disc-less console, leaked in September 2020 and confirmed the next morning, whose white box with a black circle was compared to a … 4
  12. XCOPY n. ● Alive 2018– A London artist working in glitching, flickering GIFs of skulls, screens and slogans, selling on SuperRare from around 2018 and by 2021 among the mos… 3
  13. XD n. ◐ Dying 2000– A laughing face made of letters — eyes squeezed shut, mouth open — that was every teenager's laugh in 2005 and every teenager's embarrassment in 2015… 3
  14. Xeet n. ◐ Dying 2023– A post on X, formerly a tweet — 'xeet', pronounced by nobody in agreement — as the word that was proposed, mocked, and never adopted after Twitter ch… 2
  15. xG abbr. ● Alive 2012– 'Expected goals' — a number for how likely a shot was to score, published by Opta's Sam Green in April 2012, adopted by football analytics blogs, and… 2