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Unattractive, said briskly. Replaced ugly in the vocabulary of everyone under twenty, and is already appearing in the mouths of everyone over it.

Doing something cool for no reason other than to be seen doing it. The eleven-year-old on the boat was made a tourism ambassador, which is aura farming by a government.

Content optimised past the point of meaning, and the mental state of having consumed it. The first internet term that is also a self-diagnosis.

'Brothers', in the -uzz suffix of the huzz family — the boys, the lads, the group chat. Gen Alpha's word for the friends they are about to do something stupid with.

A man's chin, edited into a flat cliff face, that circulated alongside the Eye of Rah and the Egypt property video as the raw material of 2025's early brainrot slideshows. Not a joke about anyone; a shape that got funnier with repetition.

A slur for a robot, borrowed from a cartoon and aimed at delivery bots and chatbots. The first insult of the AI era, and notably a joke about needing one.

Taking a portion of a friend's food, named after a streamer who did. Died when it appeared in a middle-school teacher's Gen Alpha glossary, printed and laminated.

The generation born from about 2010, which entered the culture in 2023 as the children with the iPads, the slang nobody understood — skibidi, rizz, gyatt — and the Sephora habit. The record's entry for the first generation to be memed before it could vote.