Memes
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π· Topic challenge Β· Memes edition
Have you seen it? Memes only.
This is not the main game. Only Memes records come up, and the desk hands out its own titles and badges, from Normie to Patient Zero. Your main-game file is left alone.
Start the Memes challenge βΆRecords open on their real pages. Answer on each one.
Badges on offer5Five memes Β· your feed is showing10Ten memes Β· you have a Drake template saved25Twenty-five memes Β· you are the group chat
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Nara Smith
A model who makes everything from scratch β cereal, gum, sunscreen β in a whispered voice while wearing couture, and became the face of the tradwife discourse whether she wanted to or not. The record's most-parodied kitchen.
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Nonchalant Dreadhead
The archetype of the unbothered young man with locs, hands in pockets, unmoved by anything β the 'nonchalant dreadhead' β as the 2024 TikTok label for a specific pose of not caring, and later for anyone trying too hard to look like they are not trying. The record's entry for the coolest person in the comment section, allegedly.
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Not Like Us
The song that ended a rap beef, won the Grammys, and got played at the Super Bowl with the accused watching. 'They not like us' became a phrase for any in-group, and the beat became a wedding staple. The year's most consequential four minutes.
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Office Siren
An aesthetic of pencil skirts, glasses, slicked hair and a blouse that is doing more than it should β the office as a runway, filtered through early-2000s films. Popular with people who do not work in offices.
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Olympic Muffin
A Norwegian swimmer's daily devotion to the Olympic village chocolate muffin, posted with the intensity of a love affair, which made a pastry the most-discussed athlete of the Games. He did not medal. The muffin did, in effect.
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Peanut the Squirrel
A pet squirrel with an Instagram following, seized and euthanised by New York authorities days before the election, which made him briefly the most political rodent in America. Filed for the outrage, which was real and short.
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Pesto the Penguin
A king penguin chick at Melbourne's aquarium who was, at nine months, larger than both his parents and shaped like a brown sofa cushion. The internet's autumn animal of 2024, between Moo Deng and the pygmy hippo of Edinburgh.
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Pole Vault Guy
A French pole vaulter eliminated when a part of him not usually mentioned in athletics knocked the bar off. Three days of jokes, a reported offer from an adult website, and the record's only entry about an anatomical disqualification.
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Pommel Horse Guy
An American gymnast who sat with his glasses on, eyes closed, waiting for his one event like a man at a bus stop, then took the glasses off and won a bronze on the pommel horse. Clark Kent as a sports meme.
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Pookie
A term of endearment, revived by a husband narrating his wife's outfits β 'Pookie looks absolutely fire tonight' β with a sincerity the internet found first hilarious and then aspirational. The couple of early 2024, and a word for anyone you adore.
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Quiet Vacationing
Taking time off without telling anyone: working from a beach, moving the mouse, replying at odd hours to look busy. Named in a 2024 survey and confirmed by every laptop with sand in it.
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Rawdogging
Sitting through a flight with no screen, no music, no book and no sleep β just the flight map and your thoughts β and posting about it as an achievement. The summer of 2024's endurance sport, ancestor of the barebacked commute.
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Raygun
An Australian academic's breakdancing routine at the Paris Olympics β the kangaroo hop, the sprinkler β that scored zero and became the Games' biggest meme. Debated, defended, parodied on Saturday Night Live, and retired within months.
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Reheating Nachos
An accusation, on stan Twitter, that a pop star is serving up someone else's charisma warmed over. From 'wanted nachos', a reality-show clip about eyeing someone's food, and now a permanent verb in the fandom wars.
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Saltburn Bathwater
The scene in Saltburn that everyone described without describing, and the January 2024 wave of memes, candles, and a 2001 Sophie Ellis-Bextor song back in the charts. The film that made a bath a punchline.
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Sephora Kids
Ten-year-olds in Sephora buying retinol and Drunk Elephant, filmed by adults who found it alarming and by each other who found it normal. The moment the skincare industry discovered a customer who cannot yet spell 'moisturiser'.
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Sigma Boy
A Russian pop song by two children about the ideal boy, which became a global TikTok sound by January 2025 and a minor diplomatic incident by February. The word 'sigma' as sung by eleven-year-olds, which is where it was headed anyway.
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Skimpotle
'Skimpy' plus Chipotle β 'Skimpotle' β the 2024 complaint that the chain's portions had shrunk, complete with the trend of filming the server while ordering to shame them into a bigger scoop. The record's entry for the burrito bowl that became a labour dispute conducted by phone camera.
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Sleepmaxxing
Optimising sleep with every available accessory β mouth tape, magnesium, weighted blanket, sleep tracker, no screens, a specific pillow β until going to bed becomes a project. The '-maxxing' suffix applied to the one thing it should not be.
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Sleepy Girl Mocktail
Tart cherry juice, magnesium powder and sparkling water, stirred and presented as a sleep aid with a name that made it sound like a personality. The January 2024 drink, and the reason cherry juice sold out.
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Slop
Generated content with no reader in mind. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, and the only entry here that names most of what surrounds it.
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Sombr
Shane Boose, the New York bedroom-pop artist whose 2024 single 'back to friends' and 2025 follow-ups 'undressed' and '12 to 12' became TikTok's soundtrack of the summer, and whose stage-crawling, deadpan persona became a meme in itself. The record's entry for the artist who went from a sad snippet to a festival slot in eight months.
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Still Massive
'The low taper fade meme is still massive' β the sentence that kept the meme alive by insisting it was, posted daily for months as a kind of vigil. A phrase that became a meme about the persistence of a meme.
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Swedish Candy
The 2024 craze for pick-and-mix from Sweden β sour skulls, foam bananas, salt liquorice β set off by TikToks from a New York sweet shop in January 2024 and spreading into queues, shortages and a Scandinavian export boom. The record's entry for the year a bag of sweets needed a waiting list.
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Tenniscore
Pleated skirts, polo shirts, visors and a suggestion of sweat β the Challengers look, worn all summer by people who watched the film for the threesome tension and left with an outfit. Faded when the US Open ended.
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Texas Hold 'Em Dance
A line dance to BeyoncΓ©'s first country single, done at weddings, in supermarkets and by every grandmother with a phone in the spring of 2024. Announced during the Super Bowl; dead by the summer festivals.
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The Rizzler
A small boy with sunglasses and a sideways look, introduced as Big Justice's friend and instantly the internet's idea of what 'rizz' looks like at age eight. Appeared at wrestling events and awards shows as a walking punchline he seemed to enjoy.
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Throning
Dating someone for the status they lend you β the throne, not the person. One of a set of words a dating app released in December 2024 to describe behaviour that has existed since thrones.
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Trader Joe's Mini Tote
The $2.99 miniature canvas tote that sold out across the US in March 2024, resold for hundreds of dollars and became the internet's case study in a bag mattering for no reason β the Trader Joe's mini tote. The record's entry for the shopping bag that was briefly a stock.
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Turkish Shooter
A Turkish pistol shooter who won silver with one hand in his pocket, no special glasses and the expression of a man collecting a parcel. The internet's favourite Olympian of 2024, and the 'hitman' pose everyone did for a month.
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We Listen and We Don't Judge
A confession trend in which couples, friends or colleagues take turns admitting something small and awful β 'we listen and we don't judge' β and then judge, silently, on camera. The record's entry for the format that made honesty a party game for the winter of 2024, and that offices adopted by January.
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What the Sigma
'Erm, what the sigma?' β a SpongeBob edit in which Squidward's line is replaced with Gen Alpha's favourite word, said in a voice of mild disgust. The summer 2024 phrase that parents learned first and children abandoned fastest.
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Winter Arc
October to December reframed as a training montage: gym, no drinking, early nights, emerging in January as a new person. A self-improvement season with the vocabulary of a shonen anime, and the reason gyms were full in November.
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Baby Gronk Rizzed Up Livvy Dunne
The June 2023 phrase β a ten-year-old youth-football prodigy nicknamed 'Baby Gronk' meeting gymnast and influencer Livvy Dunne, reported by the internet as him having 'rizzed her up' β repeated until it meant nothing, which took about a fortnight. The record's entry for the sentence that peaked as a sentence.
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Bare Minimum Monday
Doing as little as possible on Mondays, deliberately, to ease into the week. Named in early 2023 and adopted by people who had been doing it since employment was invented.
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Bird Test
Point at a bird. If your partner looks, you will last. A relationship test from a 1990s psychology study, rediscovered by TikTok in the same month as the orange peel, and applied to a lot of unsuspecting men in parks.
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Bombastic Side Eye
'Bombastic side eye. Criminal offensive side eye.' β a sound of escalating judgement laid over any video of someone looking at something they disapprove of. The reaction audio of early 2023, and the reason 'side eye' had a busy year.
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Boy Math
The retort to girl math: 'boy math is having a 5'11 height and rounding to 6 foot', 'boy math is calling a woman a gold digger while making $40k'. A counter-meme that lasted as long as the original and was, on balance, meaner.
βΈ 2023peak 2023β 2024
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Coffee Badging
Going into the office long enough to badge in, get a coffee and be seen, then leaving to work from home. The return-to-office era's quietest protest, named in a survey and practised in every lobby.
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Cozy Cardio
Walking on a pad in your living room with a candle lit, a show on, and a nice drink β exercise as an evening in. A 2023 fitness trend for people who hate fitness trends, and the reason walking pads sold out.
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Erewhon Smoothie
The celebrity-branded smoothies sold at Erewhon, the Los Angeles grocer where a drink costs about twenty dollars β starting with Hailey Bieber's 'Strawberry Glaze Skin' in June 2023 β as the internet's shorthand for wellness at a price. The record's entry for the smoothie that is mostly content.
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FE!N
The word 'fiend', shouted about forty times in a row on a 2023 Travis Scott track and then shouted about forty times in a row by everyone at every concert, gym, and school corridor in 2024 β 'FE!N' β as a meme mainly about repetition. The record's entry for the song that is one word and the crowd that knew it.
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Hear Me Out Cake
The party game where each guest brings a cardboard cut-out of a character or object they find, against their better judgement, attractive, plants it on a cake and says 'hear me out' β from Halloween 2023 into a fixture of every Gen Z gathering. The record's entry for the cake that has held a Shrek, a Lego man and a lamp.
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Ice Cream So Good
'Mmm, ice cream so good' β the NPC streamer's response to a paid gift, said with a blank smile and repeated for hours. The phrase that explained NPC streaming to people who had not seen it, and outlived it.
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Jellycat
The London soft-toy brand β a smiling aubergine, a bashful bunny, a croissant with a face β turned by TikTok from a nursery gift into a 2023β24 adult collecting obsession with queues, 'diner' pop-ups and a resale market. The record's entry for the plush that a 26-year-old will fight you for.
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Lazy Girl Job
A remote job with a decent salary, low stress and no ambition required β the opposite of girlbossing, named in 2023 and wanted by everyone who had done the girlboss years. Filed next to quiet quitting as the same feeling with better branding.
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Loud Quitting
Quitting with a speech, a post, or a video β the opposite of quiet quitting, named by a Gallup report in 2023 and practised on TikTok by people filming their resignation calls. The exit interview as content.
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Lucky Girl Syndrome
The belief that saying 'everything works out for me' makes it so β manifesting with a girlier name, popular for one spring, and killed by the people who tried it and were not, in fact, lucky.
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