103 born · 62 peaked · 39 died · 12 blog posts
Born in 2011 103
- ☠#blessedGrateful, in a way that showed the boat. Used sarcastically by 2014 and then not at all.
- ●2FATwo-factor authentication — the six-digit code from an app or text that stands between yo…
- ▲Abbottabad Live-TweetThe night a resident of Abbottabad, Sohaib Athar, posted on Twitter about a helicopter ov…
- ▲Ai Se Eu Te PegoA Brazilian sertanejo song that escaped Brazil through goal celebrations and holiday club…
- ●AirDropApple's over-the-air file transfer, born on the Mac in 2011 and on the iPhone in 2013, wh…
- ◐Ancient Aliens GuyA man with remarkable hair, from a television programme about aliens building pyramids, c…
- ●Andrew NgThe Stanford professor who co-founded Google Brain in 2011, co-founded Coursera in 2012 a…
- ◐Annoyed PicardCaptain Picard with his palm out, mid-exasperation, captioned 'Why the f*** would you…' —…
- ☠Arrow to the Knee'I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee' — the line every …
- ●BeyhiveBeyoncé's fandom — the Beyhive, named around 2011, with bee emoji as its signature — the …
- ☠Brace YourselvesNed Stark in furs, captioned 'Brace yourselves / X is coming', from the 2011 first season…
- ☠Business CatA cat in a tie, captioned with corporate instructions in a cat's priorities — 'I need tho…
- ☠Chemistry CatA cat in spectacles and a bow tie behind a rack of test tubes, delivering science puns in…
- ☠Condescending WonkaGene Wilder's Wonka, chin on hand, captioned with sarcasm — 'oh, you're a gamer? Tell me …
- ☠Conspiracy KeanuA frame of Keanu Reeves looking alarmed in Bill & Ted, used from 2011 for stoned-sounding…
- ●Cookie BannerThe box that asks you to accept cookies before every website — the cookie banner — a Euro…
- ↺Creeper, Aw ManThe opening line of 'Revenge', a Minecraft parody of Usher's 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love' …
- ●Crunchy MomThe natural-everything parent — cloth nappies, no screens, homemade purees, suspicion of …
- ●Cuffing SeasonAutumn and winter, when single people seek a partner to be 'cuffed' to until spring — cuf…
- ●Daebak'Jackpot', 'amazing' — the Korean exclamation that dramas and variety shows made unavoida…
- ●Dark SoulsFromSoftware's 2011 successor to Demon's Souls, the game that turned difficulty into a pe…
- ☠Dead IslandTechland's zombie game, announced in February 2011 with a trailer that ran in reverse, in…
- ●Dota 2Valve's version of the DotA map, made with its original maintainer, and the game whose an…
- ▲Duke Nukem ForeverThe shooter announced in 1997 and released in June 2011, after fourteen years in which it…
- ●ELI5'Explain like I'm five' — a request for a simple answer, from a subreddit that became a g…
- ●Effective AltruismA movement for doing the most good per pound, which began with bed nets and cost-effectiv…
- ●Emote (Twitch)A small image posted in chat instead of a word — an emote — as Twitch's vocabulary, from …
- ◐F4F'Follow for follow' — the offer to exchange followers, with 'L4L' for likes and 'S4S' for…
- ◐FIFA RageThe genre of videos, streams and later TikToks of people losing control after a late goal…
- ●Face RevealThe video in which a creator who has shown only a voice, an avatar or a mask finally show…
- ☠Feel Like a SirThe rage face in a top hat and monocle, captioned 'Feel like a sir', used from 2011 whene…
- ↺FridayA thirteen-year-old choosing a seat in a car. The most-disliked video on YouTube for a wh…
- ◐Funk do Mortal KombatA funk carioca remix of 'Techno Syndrome', the Mortal Kombat theme, published on 30 March…
- ◐Fus Ro DahThe shout from Skyrim that pushes things away, added to videos of anything being knocked …
- ◐Futurama Fry'Not sure if X or just Y' — Fry from Futurama squinting, as the image macro for suspicion…
- ▲Get Noscoped'Get noscoped' — shouted, captioned, or airhorned when someone is beaten quickly and styl…
- ●GhostingDisappearing from someone's life without a word — ghosting — as the defining act of app d…
- ●Git GudGet good, as the only advice on offer. The whole philosophy of a game and its fans, in fi…
- ☠Good Guy GregA smiling man with a joint, captioned with small acts of decency — 'borrows your pen, giv…
- ☠Google PlusGoogle's social network, launched in June 2011 with 'Circles', Hangouts and a forced inte…
- ☠Google+A social network that every Google account was given whether it wanted one or not. Closed…
- ●Green BubbleThe colour an iPhone gives to a text from an Android user — green instead of iMessage blu…
- ◐Half-Life 3 ConfirmedThe meme of finding proof of Valve's unannounced sequel in anything containing the number…
- ●Hide the Pain HaroldA stock-photo man smiling through something. The model, a Hungarian electrical engineer, …
- ☠Honey Badger Don't CareA nature documentary clip re-narrated in January 2011 by a man called Randall, in a camp,…
- ☠I Can't EvenAn unfinished sentence expressing being overwhelmed. Finished for everyone by a Times op-…
- ●ICYMI'In case you missed it' — the repost's excuse, from news accounts in 2011 into every bran…
- ◐If It Fits, I SitsThe cat's law — any container is a seat — as a caption from the lolcat era that outlived …
- ●InstalockTo lock in your chosen character the instant the selection screen opens, before teammates…
- ◐Is This a PigeonAn anime character misidentifying a butterfly. Dormant for seven years, then the format o…
- ◐Jetpack JoyrideA man called Barry Steakfries steals a machine-gun jetpack from a laboratory and flies ri…
- ◐KappaA greyscale man's face meaning sarcasm. Typed a million times a day at its peak; now the …
- ◐Kerbal Space ProgramSmall green astronauts called Kerbals are strapped into rockets built from parts and laun…
- ●L.A. NoireRockstar's 1947 detective game, released in May 2011 with a facial-capture system that re…
- ☠Minecraft Pocket EditionThe phone version of Minecraft, released in 2011 with a tiny world, no survival mode and …
- ☠Mother of GodThe rage-comic image of Brian Cox's police captain from Super Troopers lowering his sungl…
- ●NoFapAn online community for abstaining from pornography and masturbation, founded on Reddit i…
- ☠Not BadThe rage face with the puffed lower lip and nodding approval, traced from a May 2011 phot…
- ↺Nyan CatA pop-tart cat trailing a rainbow, looped forever. Sold for roughly $590,000 a decade aft…
- ◐OOMF'One of my followers' — the anonymous reference to a specific person everyone can guess, …
- ◐One Does Not SimplyBoromir's warning about Mordor, as the caption for anything that is not simple: 'one does…
- ☠PlankingLying face down somewhere unusual and posting the photo. Peaked in May 2011 and effective…
- ☠PogChampA face of surprise, typed millions of times a day, deleted by its landlord in an afternoo…
- ▲Pop Culture (Madeon)A seventeen-year-old French producer, one Novation launchpad, thirty-nine songs mashed li…
- ●Portal 2Valve's 2011 sequel, released after an alternate reality game in which thirteen indie tit…
- ●Praise the SunA knight raising his arms to the sun — 'praise the sun!' — from Dark Souls, as the gestur…
- ●Press X to DoubtThe interrogation prompt from a 2011 game, as the caption for any claim you do not believ…
- ●Read ReceiptsThe small notice that a message was seen — 'Read 14:02' — and the argument about whether …
- ▲Red Solo CupA country drinking song addressed to a disposable plastic cup, which gathered four millio…
- ▲Royal Wedding StreamThe live stream of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011…
- ◐SJW'Social justice warrior' — coined as praise, used as an insult for anyone who cared about…
- ●SasaengA fan who invades an idol's private life — following taxis, obtaining phone numbers, brea…
- ☠Scumbag SteveA boy in a sideways cap who borrows things. Invented a hat as a modifier; the hat outlive…
- ☠SeapunkTeal hair, dolphins, Windows 95 marble textures. Ran for about eighteen months before the…
- ●Shower ThoughtA small, odd realisation — 'your stomach thinks all potatoes are mashed' — from a subredd…
- ◐Sir, You've Been in a Coma'Sir, you've been in a coma for twenty years' — the reply to a post that is badly out of …
- ●SiriThe voice assistant Apple shipped on the iPhone 4S in October 2011, the first one hundred…
- ●Sub (Twitch)A paying subscriber to a streamer, and the word — 'sub', 'subbed', 'gifted subs' — for th…
- ◐TBT'Throwback Thursday' — the weekly permission to post an old photo, from 2011 Instagram in…
- ☠TebowingKneeling in prayer on one knee wherever you happened to be. Trademarked by the quarterbac…
- ◐Temple RunAn explorer runs from demon monkeys along a temple wall, turning by swipe and jumping by …
- ●TerrariaA two-dimensional dig-build-fight game released in May 2011 that was called a Minecraft c…
- ●That's Just a Theory'But hey, that's just a theory — a game theory!' — the closing line of every Game Theory …
- ●The Binding of IsaacA crying child flees into a basement from a mother who has heard the voice of God, and sh…
- ●The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimBethesda's open-world fantasy game, released on 11 November 2011 so that the date would l…
- ●Thirst TrapA photo posted to provoke desire — a thirst trap — as the Instagram genre that everyone p…
- ●ThirstyToo eager, especially for attention or affection — thirsty — as the 2010s word for the de…
- ☠Tiny WingsA round bird with wings too small to fly slides down hills and up the other side, gaining…
- ●Treat Yourself'Treat yo' self' — the annual day of indulgence from a sitcom, which became the internet'…
- ☠True StoryThe image of Neil Patrick Harris nodding in a suit, captioned 'True story', that closed r…
- ↺Turntable.fmAvatars DJing for each other in a room, with a bopping-head vote. Dead in two years from …
- ●Twitch ChatThe scrolling column beside a stream, with its own language, emotes and personality — 'ch…
- ●Typing BubbleThe three dots that mean someone is typing, and the anxiety when they stop — the typing b…
- ●Unpopular Opinion'Unpopular opinion:' — the prefix for an opinion that is, in nearly every case, extremely…
- ●VlogmasThe practice of uploading a vlog every day from 1 to 25 December — Vlogmas — as the YouTu…
- ☠Watch Out, We Got a Badass Over HereA line drawing of Neil deGrasse Tyson with both hands raised, traced from a 2011 intervie…
- ☠WatsonThe IBM system that beat the two best Jeopardy champions on television in February 2011, …
- ●We're All Gonna Make ItThe motto of an Australian bodybuilder who died in 2011 and became the gym internet's pat…
- ◐Why Not Both?A small girl in an Old El Paso advert asking, in Spanish, why the family cannot have both…
- ☠Woj BombAdrian Wojnarowski's trade or signing scoop, dropped on Twitter seconds before anyone els…
- ☠YOLOYou only live once, as a justification. Twenty months from the song to teachers saying it…
- ●You DiedThe red text of the Dark Souls death screen, applied to any failure — a bad date, a burnt…
- ◐Zlatan QuotesThe third-person aphorisms of Zlatan Ibrahimović — 'I don't do auditions', 'I came like a…
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- ▲=3 (Equals Three)Ray William Johnson's three-times-weekly viral-video review show, '=3', begun in 2009, wh…
- ☠Advice AnimalsA face on a coloured background, two lines of Impact, one character trait. The industrial…
- ◐Amnesia: The Dark DescentA Swedish horror game about a man with no memory in a castle, with no weapons, a sanity m…
- ↺Angry BirdsA slingshot game in which birds are fired at structures built by egg-stealing pigs. The r…
- ▲Are You Serious FaceThe rage face with one enormous eye, one slit and a mouth clamped in disbelief, used when…
- ●AutocorrectThe software that fixes your typos and, since the iPhone of 2007, replaces the word you m…
- ☠BBMBlackBerry Messenger — the free, PIN-based chat between BlackBerry owners, launched in Au…
- ☠Bin WeevilsA British browser world in which players were weevils living in a rubbish bin, with a nes…
- ▲Cereal GuyThe rage-comic character who reads a newspaper, hears something implausible and sprays hi…
- ☠CityVilleA Facebook city-builder from the makers of FarmVille, in which players built shops, staff…
- ◐CleverbotThe website chatbot that answered by reusing what earlier visitors had said, launched in …
- ↺Content FarmA company producing thousands of cheap articles a day to catch searches and serve ads — t…
- ◐Cut the RopeA sweet on a rope has to be swung into the mouth of a small green monster called Om Nom, …
- ◐DerpThe sound of stupidity — 'derp', 'herp derp' — from a 1998 film via South Park into the r…
- ◐Do a Barrel RollPeppy Hare's advice from a 1997 game, posted under any image of a plane, a car, or a pers…
- ☠DuckfaceLips pushed out and together for the camera. Named, mocked, and gone within four years; t…
- ☠FantageA browser world of anime-style avatars, a boardwalk of shops, a level system based on wea…
- ↺Final Fantasy XIVSquare Enix's MMO, released in 2010 in a state that led the company to apologise, replace…
- ☠Forever AloneA crying face with a lumpy head, used to announce solitude with a joke attached. Sadder i…
- ☠FormspringThe anonymous-question site, launched in November 2009, where a teenager invited the worl…
- ☠Foursquare MayorThe title given to whoever checked in most at a place. Coffee shops gave mayors free drin…
- ◐Fruit NinjaFruit is thrown into the air and you slice it with a finger, and a bomb ends it. Made by …
- ▲Fuck Yea GuyThe rage face with the confident stride, jutting chin and closed-eye smirk that ended com…
- ◐Haters Gonna HateThe caption under any image of someone strutting, from 2010 onwards, dismissing criticism…
- ☠HipsterA person who liked things before you did, identified by a beard and denied by everyone. D…
- ☠Insanity WolfThe inverted, black-and-white version of Courage Wolf, created in 2009 to give the same a…
- ◐JailbreakTo break an iPhone out of Apple's restrictions so it can run software from outside the Ap…
- ☠Joseph DucreuxAn eighteenth-century self-portrait of the French painter Joseph Ducreux, pointing and sm…
- ☠KinectMicrosoft's camera controller, announced as Project Natal with a demo of a boy called Mil…
- ☠Lame Pun CoonA raccoon on a green background grinning at its own terrible pun, a 2010 Advice Animal wh…
- ☠Le (Reddit)'Le' — the French article, put in front of English words for no reason — 'le me, walking …
- ▲Learn to FlyA penguin who has read that penguins cannot fly builds a ramp, buys a glider, and launche…
- ◐Like a BossThe tag from the Lonely Island's 2009 SNL short, appended to any everyday action to make …
- ◐Little MonstersLady Gaga's fandom, the Little Monsters, named during the Monster Ball tour of 2009–2011 …
- ☠MegauploadFour per cent of all internet traffic, one New Zealand mansion, and a police helicopter. …
- ◐Mods AsleepPost whatever the rules forbid, because the enforcers are in bed. Faded as moderation sto…
- ☠Moshi MonstersA British browser world in which children adopted a monster, solved daily puzzles and col…
- ☠Musically Oblivious 8th GraderA 2010 Advice Animal — a teenage girl on a pink background who thinks 'Smells Like Teen S…
- ☠Narwhal Bacons at Midnight'The narwhal bacons at midnight' — a password for redditors to recognise each other in pu…
- ●OCOriginal content, as opposed to a repost. The distinction that separates a poster from a …
- ◐OP DeliveredThe rare moment a thread's original poster actually provided what they promised — 'OP del…
- ▲Okay GuyThe sad, slumped rage face with downcast eyes and a small 'okay' — the reaction to being …
- ☠Paranoid ParrotA wide-eyed parrot on a purple background, the 2010 Advice Animal for irrational fear: th…
- ☠PhilosoraptorA velociraptor, thinking, captioned with a pseudo-profound question — 'if you enjoy wasti…
- ▲Poker Face (Rage Comic)The straight-mouthed, half-lidded rage face used to end a comic where the narrator has be…
- ▲QWOPA browser game in which Q, W, O and P control a sprinter's thighs and calves independentl…
- ☠Rage ComicCrude faces in panels, drawn badly on purpose. The last meme format that required its aud…
- ▲Rage GuyThe crudely drawn screaming head that closed the first rage comic in 2008 — a four-panel …
- ●Rage QuitLeaving a game in anger, mid-match. Extended to jobs, relationships and group chats witho…
- ◐Sent From My iPhoneThe default signature that became a status symbol, an excuse for typos, and a joke — 'Sen…
- ☠Sheltering Suburban MomA 2010 Advice Animal featuring a smiling suburban woman on a yellow background whose capt…
- ↺SkeuomorphismSoftware pretending to be leather, felt and glass. Removed in 2013 as childish, and retur…
- ☠Socially Awkward PenguinA penguin walking away from a difficult moment. Died in 2015 when the photograph's owner …
- ☠Success KidA toddler clenching a fistful of sand in triumph. Used in a congressman's fundraising in …
- ◐Super Meat BoyA cube of meat runs through saw blades to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from a foetu…
- ☠SwagConfidence, as an accessory. The word of 2011, worn on hats in 2012, and explained by gra…
- ●Team Fortress 2Nine cartoon mercenaries, a Pixar look and, from 2009, hats. Valve's class shooter became…
- ◐TekkersShort for 'technique', popularised by the Saturday morning show Soccer AM in the 2000s: '…
- ☠U Mad Bro'You mad, bro?' — the troll's question to a victim, asked with a Trollface, as the 2009–1…
- ☠Witch HouseSlowed hip-hop drums, occult imagery, triangles, crosses, and band names made of Unicode …
- ◐Words with FriendsScrabble by another name, played by turn on a phone against friends or strangers over day…
- ☠X All the YThe stick-figure with the broom and the manic grin from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Hal…
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- ▲Abbottabad Live-TweetThe night a resident of Abbottabad, Sohaib Athar, posted on Twitter about a helicopter ov…
- ☠Advice DogA puppy on a rainbow background giving terrible guidance. Spawned an entire taxonomy of a…
- ☠Bed IntruderA local news interview about a break-in, auto-tuned into a Billboard hit. The subject bou…
- ☠Boom Headshot'BOOM, HEADSHOT!' — the catchphrase of a fictional gamer in a 2005 web series, shouted by…
- ▲Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareThe Call of Duty that left the Second World War and invented the modern multiplayer templ…
- ▲Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)Infinity Ward's 2009 sequel, the biggest entertainment launch in history at the time, wit…
- ☠Ceiling CatA cat looking through a hole in a ceiling, captioned as God — 'Ceiling Cat is watching yo…
- ↺Content FarmA company producing thousands of cheap articles a day to catch searches and serve ads — t…
- ▲Crank That (Soulja Boy)The debut single built on a looping steel drum riff, with a dance whose steps were taught…
- ☠Dead IslandTechland's zombie game, announced in February 2011 with a trailer that ran in reverse, in…
- ☠Double RainbowA man overcome by a double rainbow, asking what it means. Microsoft put him in a Windows …
- ▲Duke Nukem 3DA shooter with a wisecracking hero in a vest, strippers, a toilet you could drink from an…
- ▲Duke Nukem ForeverThe shooter announced in 1997 and released in June 2011, after fourteen years in which it…
- ▲Evolution of DanceJudson Laipply's six-minute medley of fifty years of dance moves, uploaded in April 2006 …
- ☠FAILA single word stamped on a picture of something going wrong. Ran an entire blog empire an…
- ▲Floppy DiskThe removable disk — 8-inch in 1971, 5.25-inch in the late 1970s, and the rigid 3.5-inch …
- ↺FridayA thirteen-year-old choosing a seat in a car. The most-disliked video on YouTube for a wh…
- ☠Google BuzzA social feed switched on inside everyone's inbox that published your most-emailed contac…
- ☠Guitar HeroA plastic guitar with five coloured buttons and a game that made a living room feel like …
- ☠Hi5The social network that was, for a couple of years around 2007, the biggest site in Latin…
- ↺Katamari DamacyRoll a sticky ball around a house until it picks up the house, then the town, then the sk…
- ▲LeekspinA Flash loop from 2006 of an anime girl twirling a leek to a Finnish folk group's scat-su…
- ☠LolrusA walrus with a bucket, and the saga — 'I has a bucket', 'NOOO they be stealin my bucket'…
- ▲MySpaceCustomisable profiles, autoplay music and a friend called Tom. Lost every song uploaded b…
- ▲NintendogsA puppy on the bottom screen that you stroked with a stylus and called by name into the m…
- ☠PlankingLying face down somewhere unusual and posting the photo. Peaked in May 2011 and effective…
- ▲PortalA three-hour puzzle game in a testing facility, with a gun that made two connected holes …
- ☠Scene KidNeon, side fringes, raccoon tails and a MySpace name with an X in it. The last subculture…
- ▲Serious CatA grey cat with a level stare, captioned 'I am serious cat / this is serious thread', pos…
- ▲ShoesLiam Kyle Sullivan's 2006 video in which his character Kelly, a sullen teenager in a wig,…
- ☠SidekickThe flip-out-keyboard phone, sold by T-Mobile from October 2002, that was the first devic…
- ↺Skate 3 RevivalA 2010 skateboarding game whose physics glitches and ragdoll falls became a YouTube forma…
- ↺The Elder Scrolls IV: OblivionAn open fantasy world with a face-generation system that produced potato people, guards w…
- ▲The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate DestinyNeil Cicierega's 2005 song, animated for Newgrounds, in which Godzilla, Batman, Abraham L…
- ☠This Is SpartaGerard Butler's roar as he kicks a Persian messenger into a pit in the 2007 film 300, re-…
- ☠Wall PostA public message left on someone's profile for everyone to read. Replaced by the Timeline…
- ☠Watch InstantlyThe name under which Netflix, then a DVD-by-post service founded in 1997, first let membe…
- ☠We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube Edition)A charity single assembled from 57 geographically scattered unsigned and independent sing…
- ☠ZuneMicrosoft's iPod, launched in November 2006 in brown, with a Wi-Fi song-sharing feature t…
From the blog, 2011
YouTube, you never cease to amaze me [PIC]28 Dec 2011
Siri Fail [PIC]27 Dec 2011
The Sky is Burning [PIC]27 Dec 2011
Angry Planes [PIC]27 Dec 2011
Luckiest Baseball catch ever! [VIDEO]26 Dec 2011
FedEx At It Again (Hilarious) [VIDEO]26 Dec 2011
Lousy FedEx Delivery Guys - Conan on TBS24 Dec 2011
You got his hopes up [PIC]23 Dec 2011
Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger Without Teeth [ANIMATED GIF]23 Dec 2011
Made plans. Cancelled before hand as I was drinking and did not want to drive. 11 days later.. [PIC]23 Dec 2011
End of Earth [PIC]23 Dec 2011
Facebook Needs This [PIC]23 Dec 2011