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A bait link resolving to Rick Astley. Has died and been resurrected more times than any other entry here, which arguably makes it the healthiest thing in the dictionary.

A message threatening bad luck unless forwarded to ten people. Did not die; it changed hosts.

A duck on wheels served instead of what a link promised. Existed for weeks before its successor, and is filed here so the record shows the mechanic came first and Astley second.

Laughs, in the plural, at someone's expense — 'for the lulz' — as the 2000s' explanation for anything done to be funny, including things that were not. The record's entry for the laughter that was also a motive.

Something already posted, posted again. Also the mechanism by which everything in this dictionary survived.

Someone posting to provoke a response. Started as a fishing metaphor for a specific joke and has since been extended to cover roughly half of all human behaviour.

A grin drawn in MS Paint that meant the whole thing was a setup. One of the few memes with a living rights-holder, which is precisely what ended it.

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.