teens

Vocabulary bent around automated moderation: unalive, seggs, le dollar bean. A dialect whose only native speaker is a classifier.

Charisma measured in points, gained and lost in public. Minus 1,000 aura for explaining it, which this entry has just done.

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.

Hitting your own face with a hammer or a bottle to encourage bone growth — a looksmaxxing 'technique' that was mostly a joke on the forums and became a moral panic when it reached TikTok. The record's entry for the trend that was more talked about than done, one hopes.

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.

A video that is only a sequence of unrelated images — an eye, a chin, a shark in shoes, two SpongeBobs — over a sped-up song, with no joke connecting them. The format that made brainrot a genre rather than a word, in the winter of 2024–25.

'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.

The angle of the corners of the eyes — positive is attractive, negative is not, according to a corner of the internet with a protractor. The looksmaxxing term that escaped the forums in 2023 and made a generation check their eyes in the mirror. The record's entry for the angle.