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A local news interview about a break-in, auto-tuned into a Billboard hit. The subject bought a house with the royalties, a rare case of the meme paying its source.

A list of numbers that stands for a word, sentence or image, arranged so that similar things end up near each other. The 2013 word2vec paper made the idea famous with arithmetic: king minus man plus woman landed near queen. Modern embeddings run to over a thousand dimensions and are what makes 'search by meaning', recommendation and RAG work.

The recyclable cardboard beds in the Olympic village, rumoured to be 'anti-sex' and tested on camera by athletes jumping on them. A meme about furniture that ran for the whole Games and was, in the end, about something else.

The Russian singer Vitas performing The 7th Element, retitled after what English speakers heard in the vocal, including the passage rendered as 'blr ha ha ha'. It made him internationally known as the Weird Russian Singer, a description he did not choose.

A Roblox version of the Minecraft server mode in which teams protect a bed, bridge across the void and try to destroy the other beds. The record's entry for a mode changing platforms: the format was famous on Hypixel for years, and the Roblox version reached a billion visits inside its first year, with its own kits, YouTubers and season pass, on a platform whose players had mostly never seen a Minecraft server.

Amazon's answer to the Azure OpenAI Service, announced in April 2023: a menu of other people's models, Anthropic's, Meta's, Mistral's and its own Titan line, sold through the cloud that already hosted most of the internet. The record's entry for the moment Amazon decided that not having a famous model of its own could be a product.

Staying in bed all day, rebranded as wellness. Named by TikTok, diagnosed by the newspapers, and gone before anyone had to defend it.

The practice of piling every evening ritual on top of each other — magnesium, mouth tape, red light, a book, a gratitude list — until bedtime takes ninety minutes. Named like a productivity hack, mocked like one.