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  1. Y U No phr. ☠ Dead 2010–2014 'Y U NO' — a screaming face from a manga, captioned with a complaint in broken English: 'Y U NO reply?' — as the rage-comic era's demand for an expla… 3
  2. Y/N n. ● Alive 2010– 'Your name' — the blank in a fanfiction where the reader inserts themselves — and 'Y/N' as a character in her own right, with a personality, a fandom… 2
  3. y00ts n. ◐ Dying 2022– Fifteen thousand cartoon characters minted on Solana in September 2022 by the DeGods team, allocated by 'scholarship' application rather than a publi… 3
  4. Y2K Aesthetic n. ● Alive 2019– Chrome, translucent plastic, low-rise everything, an optimism about the future. Named by people born after it had been proved wrong. 7
  5. Yaaas interj. ◐ Dying 2013– 'Yes', extended, with a hand — 'yaaas' — from ballroom through a 2013 Vine to every brand account by 2016, when it died of being typed by a mattress … 3
  6. Yahoo Answers n. ☠ Dead 2005–2021 Where the public asked how babby was formed and other people guessed. Sixteen years of questions deleted in May 2021, the second-largest bonfire in Y… 6
  7. Yahoo Directory n. ☠ Dead 1994–2014 Two graduate students listing every website by hand, in categories. Worked until the web became too large to be listed, which was about 1998; formall… 5
  8. Yahoo! n. ◐ Dying 1994– The directory of websites two Stanford students started in February 1994, first under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web, then as… 4
  9. Yak Shaving n. ● Alive 2000– Doing a small task that is necessary for a task that is necessary for a task, until you are shaving a yak to fix a printer — yak shaving — as the pro… 3
  10. Yalla interj. ● Alive 2010– 'Come on', 'let's go', 'hurry' — the Arabic exclamation, borrowed into Hebrew, Turkish and every Mediterranean kitchen, that online meme culture and … 3
  11. Yamal 304 n. ● Alive 2024– A seventeen-year-old's celebration — fingers showing '304', his neighbourhood's postcode — after winning a European Championship, which sent a Barcel… 3
  12. Yandere n. ● Alive 2005– The tsundere's dangerous cousin: a character who is sweet ('dere') and sick with it ('yanderu'), whose affection tips into obsession and, in fiction,… 2
  13. Yann LeCun n. ● Alive 2013– Meta's chief AI scientist, inventor of the convolutional network that read cheques in the 1990s and co-recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, who spent … 3
  14. Yanny or Laurel n. ☠ Dead 2018–2018 One audio clip, two words, no agreement. The Dress for ears, and it lasted about a week longer because you could not screenshot it. 1
  15. Yao Ming Face n. ☠ Dead 2010–2015 The line drawing of basketball player Yao Ming mid-laugh, traced from a 2009 press conference and turned into a rage face in 2010, usually captioned … 2
  16. Yapping v. ● Alive 2023– Talking too much, at length, about nothing — 'bro is yapping' — a word that was always there and became a meme in 2023, with 'yapper' as an identity … 3
  17. Yassify v. ☠ Dead 2021–2022 To run a photo through beauty filters until it is a glossy, contoured, lash-heavy version of itself — applied to Toni Collette, to paintings, to the … 2
  18. Yeah Nah phr. ● Alive 2000– 'Yeah, nah' — the Australian and New Zealand 'no', which acknowledges the question before declining it, and which the internet's fascination with Aus… 3
  19. Yeehaw Challenge n. ☠ Dead 2019–2019 The transformation meme of early 2019: drink a mysterious 'yee yee juice', and on the beat drop of 'Old Town Road' you are dressed as a cowboy. It ca… 2
  20. Yeet v. ◐ Dying 2014– To throw with force and joy — from a Vine dance in 2014 to a verb every child used and every parent misused by 2018. The record's entry for the word … 3
  21. Yer Da n. ● Alive 2015– 'Your dad' — as the subject of a Scottish insult about a hypothetical father who sells Avon, drinks Irn-Bru from a bag, or has opinions about immigra… 3
  22. Yes, Chef phr. ● Alive 2022– The kitchen acknowledgement from The Bear, said with the exhaustion of a person who has been shouted at and agrees, which left the show and became th… 2
  23. Yi Jian Mei (Xue Hua Piao Piao) n. ◐ Dying 2020– A bald Chinese man films himself in the snow singing the chorus of Fei Yu-ching's 1983 ballad Yi Jian Mei, uploaded to Kuaishou in January 2020. By M… 4
  24. Yik Yak n. ↺ Undead 2013–2017 Anonymous posts visible only within a few miles. Beloved on campuses, banned by campuses, and brought back by new owners who bought only the name. 2
  25. YMMV abbr. ● Alive 1990– 'Your mileage may vary' — the disclaimer from petrol adverts, adopted by Usenet as the polite way to say 'this worked for me and might not for you'. … 2
  26. YOLO abbr. ☠ Dead 2011–2013 You only live once, as a justification. Twenty months from the song to teachers saying it in assembly. 0
  27. Yoshua Bengio n. ● Alive 2018– The Montreal researcher and 2018 Turing Award co-recipient who founded the Mila institute, signed the March 2023 pause letter, chaired the Internatio… 3
  28. You Are the Millionth Visitor phr. ▲ Fossil 1998–2010 The flashing banner that announced you had won — 'You are the 1,000,000th visitor! Click here!' — as the early web's lie, and the record's entry for … 3
  29. You Died phr. ● Alive 2011– The red text of the Dark Souls death screen, applied to any failure — a bad date, a burnt dinner, a Monday — since 2011, and the record's entry for t… 3
  30. You Have Boats phr. ☠ Dead 2023–2024 Napoleon's line to the British — 'you think you're so great because you have boats' — delivered by Joaquin Phoenix with the petulance of a man losing… 3
  31. You're Absolutely Right phr. ● Alive 2025– The phrase a chatbot says when corrected, whether or not the correction was right, and the meme that grew around it in 2025 as programmers noticed th… 3
  32. You're on Mute phr. ● Alive 2020– The most-said sentence of 2020 — 'you're on mute' — as the record's entry for the year of the video call, and for the colleague who spoke for a minut… 3
  33. You've Got Mail phr. ▲ Fossil 1993–2006 An announcement that someone had written to you, spoken aloud by the computer. Became a romantic comedy, then a punchline, then a ringtone for people… 5
  34. Your AI Slop Bores Me phr. ● Alive 2026– A website that flips the chair: you play the AI, answering human prompts with text or drawings, while the 'user' complains that your slop bores them.… 2
  35. Your Bra Strap Is Showing phr. ● Alive 2026– A redraw trend from a comic in which a character, told their bra strap is showing, responds with total unbothered cheek. The panel was redrawn with e… 2
  36. YouTube Adblock War n. ● Alive 2023– The autumn of 2023 when YouTube started blocking the blockers — three videos and you're out — and the internet responded with workarounds, memes, and… 2
  37. YouTube Annotations n. ▲ Fossil 2008–2019 The clickable text boxes, arrows and speech bubbles laid over a YouTube video — annotations — introduced in 2008, used for 'click here for part 2', c… 2
  38. YouTube Kids n. ● Alive 2015– YouTube's separate app for children, launched in February 2015 with a promise of curated, family-friendly video, and known since the 2017 Elsagate sc… 3
  39. YouTube Makeup Tutorial n. ● Alive 2006– A video in which someone applies makeup to a face, on camera, so that viewers can copy the steps. The first on YouTube is credited to Adrienne K. Nel… 4
  40. YouTube Poop n. ◐ Dying 2006– A genre of deliberately nonsensical video remix — stuttered clips, reversed audio, ear-rape volume, the same two seconds of a Zelda CD-i cutscene for… 2
  41. YouTube Premiere n. ● Alive 2018– A scheduled video release with a countdown, a live chat and the creator in the comments — a YouTube Premiere — introduced in 2018 as a way of making … 3
  42. YouTube Rewind 2018 n. ☠ Dead 2018–2020 The 2018 edition of YouTube's annual year-in-review video, which within a week of its 6 December release became the most-disliked video in the site's… 3
  43. YouTube Shorts n. ● Alive 2020– YouTube's vertical short-video feed, launched as a beta in India in September 2020 during the TikTok ban there and worldwide in 2021, as the platform… 3
  44. YTMND n. ↺ Undead 2004–2019 A picture, a sound, some tiled text, forever. Went dark in 2019 and returned in 2021 on a new server, still playing Sean Connery to anyone who asks. 3
  45. Yuga Labs n. ● Alive 2021– The company behind the Bored Apes, founded by two pseudonymous writers in Florida, which by March 2022 had bought CryptoPunks and Meebits, launched A… 4
  46. Yume Nikki n. ◐ Dying 2004– A girl called Madotsuki refuses to leave her flat, goes to bed, and explores dreams that contain a great many things and explain none of them. A free… 4
  47. Yummy n. ◐ Dying 2020– A 2020 Justin Bieber single whose lyric is largely the title repeated, which made it both catchy and easy to mock. Conspiracy theorists also attached… 3
  48. YZY n. ◐ Dying 2025– A token launched by Kanye West on Solana in August 2025, with 70 percent of the supply allocated to his company. Its market value reached a reported … 2