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Born in 2012 94
- ↺AgüeroooMartin Tyler's scream as Sergio Agüero scored in the 94th minute against QPR on 13 May 20…
- ☠Ain't Nobody Got Time for ThatA woman describing escaping a fire with a line that became a chorus. The last of the auto…
- ◐ArianatorsAriana Grande's fandom — Arianators, named around her 2013 debut and at its most powerful…
- ●Backseat GamingTelling the person playing what to do, from the couch since the 1980s and from Twitch cha…
- ☠Bad Luck BrianA school photo, braces, a plaid sweater vest and a two-line tragedy. The subject sold the…
- ●Bias WreckerThe K-pop group member who is not your favourite ('bias') but keeps threatening to become…
- ●BirbA bird, especially a round one — 'birb' — and the record's entry for the misspelling that…
- ●BrigadingArriving in a group to vote something down. Prohibited everywhere and organised on the sa…
- ▲Butt FumbleMark Sanchez running into his own lineman's backside, fumbling, and watching New England …
- ●Candy Crush SagaA match-three puzzle game of sweets, lives that regenerate on a timer and a map of levels…
- ●Cat TaxThe obligation to post a photo of your cat when asking for anything — from Reddit in 2012…
- ●Clash of ClansA village-building game in which players train troops, raid other villages and wait for t…
- ●CollabA collaboration between creators, shortened — 'collab' — as the unit of internet friendsh…
- ☠Confession BearA sun bear resting its chin on a log, used from 2012 to confess things — first small and …
- ☠Counter-Strike: Global OffensiveThe fourth Counter-Strike, which invented the weapon-skin economy in 2013, spawned a gamb…
- ◐Crying JordanA basketball legend's tearful face pasted onto every loser in sport. Jordan himself is re…
- ◐DayZA zombie mod for a military simulator in which the zombies were the least of it, because …
- ●Desi MemesThe meme culture of South Asia and its diaspora — parents, exams, cricket, arranged-marri…
- ↺Diablo IIIBlizzard's 2012 Diablo, twelve years after the last, whose always-online launch produced …
- ◐Digital DetoxNot looking at your phone, as a retreat you could book. Fading because nobody completes o…
- ☠Draw SomethingPictionary by phone, fifty million downloads in fifty days, bought for $180 million in we…
- ◐Edit: Thanks for the GoldThe edit appended to a comment that received a paid award — 'edit: thanks for the gold, k…
- ●Elf on the Shelf DiscourseThe December argument about the surveillance doll, the parents who forgot to move it, and…
- ☠ErmahgerdA girl with a retainer and three paperbacks, captioned in a lisp. The subject, then a nur…
- ◐FTL: Faster Than LightA small spaceship flees a rebel fleet across a galaxy, and its crew put out fires, patch …
- ●Fake GiveawayA post promising a car, a console or a doubled deposit if you like, share and follow — th…
- ◐FezA two-dimensional platformer that rotates into three dimensions, with a language and numb…
- ▲Firework (Katy Perry and Jodi DiPiazza)A duet performed on the television special Night of Too Many Stars between Katy Perry and…
- ◐Flat DesignNo shadows, no gradients, no textures, no idea which bit was a button. Fading now that ev…
- ☠Frog FractionsA browser game that begins as a maths lesson about a frog eating flies and becomes, withi…
- ●GG EZ'Good game, easy' — the post-match taunt that is the worst thing you can type after a win…
- ●GachaPaying for a random chance at a character, from Japanese capsule toys to the phone games …
- ☠Gangnam StyleA Korean pop video that broke YouTube's view counter. Danced by the UN Secretary-General,…
- ●Geoffrey HintonThe Toronto researcher called the godfather of deep learning, co-author of the backpropag…
- ☠Grumpy CatA cat with feline dwarfism who appeared permanently displeased. Made an estimated $100 mi…
- ●Gym BroThe type: a shaker bottle, a stringer vest, a lot of advice, a creatine opinion. From a 2…
- ●Happy Black History MonthThe greeting that opens February on the American internet, and the annual meme cycle that…
- ●Hay DayA farm game of crops, animals and a roadside shop, played on a slower clock than almost a…
- ●Hot TakeAn opinion published faster than it was thought. Coined as an insult and adopted as a job…
- ◐Hotline MiamiA man in a letterman jacket gets answerphone messages telling him to go to an address and…
- ◐IbA nine-year-old girl visits an art gallery with her parents and finds herself inside the …
- ◐Instructions Unclear'Instructions unclear, got my hand stuck in the toaster' — the comment under any tutorial…
- ●Intermittent FastingEating only within a window — sixteen hours off, eight on, or two low days a week — inter…
- ◐Journey (Thatgamecompany)A robed figure walks toward a mountain across a desert, and partway through another playe…
- ●Ko-fiThe tip jar, founded in 2012, whose whole pitch is 'buy me a coffee' — a one-off few doll…
- ☠Kony 2012A thirty-minute film asking you to make a warlord famous, viewed a hundred million times …
- ●Lewis's LawThe comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. Filed as a law because it ha…
- ●Like If You're Watching in 2026The comment left under any video older than a fortnight — 'like if you're watching in 202…
- ●Load ManagementResting a healthy star for a regular-season game — first a Popovich habit in San Antonio,…
- ◐M'lady'M'lady' — said with a tip of a fedora, as the 2012–14 meme about the man who thinks chiv…
- ☠MCM / WCW'Man crush Monday' and 'woman crush Wednesday' — the weekly permission to post someone at…
- ☠MLG MontageAirhorns, Doritos, Mountain Dew, a hit marker and Snoop Dogg. A parody of hype that becam…
- ▲Mass Effect 3BioWare's 2012 finale, whose three-colour ending prompted the first mass fan campaign aga…
- ☠Matrix MorpheusLaurence Fishburne in the sunglasses, captioned 'What if I told you' above a truth the re…
- ☠McKayla Is Not ImpressedGymnast McKayla Maroney's sideways pout on the London 2012 silver-medal podium, pasted in…
- ●Me IRL'Me in real life' — the caption under a picture of a sad animal, a broken object or a car…
- ☠MiiverseA social network drawn in handwriting by children about video games. The gentlest communi…
- ●Model Off DutyThe look of a model between shows — jeans, white tee, oversized blazer, sunglasses, coffe…
- ●My Singing MonstersA collecting game in which monsters on islands each sing a part of a song, and the song g…
- ●Navy Seal CopypastaA paragraph of escalating military threats — 'I have over 300 confirmed kills', 'you are …
- ●Neutral Face😐 — the neutral face, which is never neutral: it is the reply to a bad joke, a bad excus…
- ●Omo'Wow', 'oh boy', 'mate' — the Yoruba word for 'child' repurposed as the Nigerian internet…
- ▲One Pound FishA market trader's sales patter, sung at a fish stall in London and filmed by passers-by, …
- ●One-TapA kill with a single click, one bullet to the head, in Counter-Strike and its descendants…
- ●OppAn opponent, an enemy, a rival — 'opp', plural 'opps' — from Chicago drill English around…
- ☠Overly Attached GirlfriendA stare, a smile, a hundred thousand captions about checking your phone. The subject reti…
- ☠Pastel GothLilac hair, inverted crosses, a bat-shaped bag, creepers and everything in pink — pastel …
- ●Plague Inc.A disease starts in one country and the player evolves it to infect and kill everyone bef…
- ●PouA virtual pet in the shape of a brown blob with large eyes, fed, washed, dressed and put …
- ◐Preach'Preach!' — enthusiastic agreement, from the call-and-response of the Black church into t…
- ◐Puzzle & DragonsA match-three puzzle combined with a monster-collecting gacha, played on a board of orbs …
- ●Review BombingFlooding a game's user reviews with negative scores as a protest about something — an end…
- ☠Ridiculously Photogenic GuyA runner photographed mid-race in April 2012 looking like a catalogue model while everyon…
- ↺Sad GirlLana Del Rey lyrics over film stills, a cigarette, a tear, a caption about being tired — …
- ●SaltyBitter about losing. Older than the internet as sailors' slang and given a second, perman…
- ●SenpaiAn upperclassman or senior — the Japanese honorific that anglophone fandom around 2012 tu…
- ●ShadowbanBeing hidden without being told. Denied by every platform and experienced by every user, …
- ☠Slender: The Eight PagesA free first-person game in which you collect eight pages from a dark forest while a tall…
- ☠Soft GrungeNirvana shirts with flower crowns. The Tumblr aesthetic, before Tumblr had many; killed b…
- ●SonderThe realisation that every stranger has a life as complex as your own — coined in 2012 by…
- ●Sponsored PostAn ordinary-looking post that a brand has paid for — the sponsored post — the base unit o…
- ●Subscription TrapA 'free trial' that quietly becomes a monthly charge, buried in a checkout you did not re…
- ☠Sudden Clarity ClarenceA party photograph of a young man frozen mid-realisation, captioned from January 2012 wit…
- ●Sunday LeagueBritish amateur weekend football — muddy pitch, hangovers, a centre-half called Baz — use…
- ◐Super HexagonA small triangle rotates in a spinning hexagon while walls close in, and the goal is to s…
- ●TIFU'Today I f***ed up' — the confession subreddit, and the prefix for any self-inflicted dis…
- ●Talking AngelaA white cat in Paris that chats with the player by text, and the subject of a 2013 and 20…
- ☠The Simpsons: Tapped OutA town-builder in which Homer's negligence has blown up Springfield and the player rebuil…
- ☠Thomas Was AloneColoured rectangles jump through platform levels while a narrator gives each of them a pe…
- ☠Uber for XAn app that summoned a stranger to do a thing. Uber for laundry, for dog walking, for par…
- ●WSBWallStreetBets — the subreddit where retail traders gamble and post the result, which in …
- ●WhaleA player who spends thousands. The one per cent who pay for the ninety-nine, in a busines…
- ☠Wii UNintendo's 2012 console with a tablet controller, whose name was assumed by a large share…
- ●xG'Expected goals' — a number for how likely a shot was to score, published by Opta's Sam G…
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- ●1-ClickAmazon's ordering button, introduced in 1997, that charges a saved card and posts to a sa…
- ●AMA'Ask me anything' — the interview format in which the internet asks and the subject answe…
- ▲Ai Se Eu Te PegoA Brazilian sertanejo song that escaped Brazil through goal celebrations and holiday club…
- ◐Ancient Aliens GuyA man with remarkable hair, from a television programme about aliens building pyramids, c…
- ◐Annoyed PicardCaptain Picard with his palm out, mid-exasperation, captioned 'Why the f*** would you…' —…
- ●App StoreApple's software shop, opened on 10 July 2008 with 500 apps including a $999 'I Am Rich' …
- ☠Arrow to the Knee'I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee' — the line every …
- ●Bare'A lot', 'very' — 'bare people', 'bare jokes' — as the Multicultural London English inten…
- ◐BeliebersJustin Bieber's fandom — Beliebers — from around 2009, the first YouTube-born fan base an…
- ●BoganThe Australian word for an uncouth, flannel-wearing, ute-driving compatriot — an insult s…
- ●BotchA wrestling move gone wrong — a botch — and, since Maffew's 'Botchamania' compilations st…
- ☠Brace YourselvesNed Stark in furs, captioned 'Brace yourselves / X is coming', from the 2011 first season…
- ●BuffAn improvement to a character's stats — a buff — and, as a verb, to make anything stronge…
- ●Buff (British)Attractive — 'buff' — as the London slang word that predates 'peng' and means the same, a…
- ☠Business CatA cat in a tie, captioned with corporate instructions in a cat's priorities — 'I need tho…
- ●ButtersUgly — 'butters' — as the London slang's cruellest adjective, with an etymology nobody ag…
- ●CanonWhat officially happened in a story — canon — as opposed to headcanon, fanon, and what sh…
- ●Cargo CultCopying the form of something without understanding why it works — cargo cult programming…
- ◐Challenge AcceptedThe grinning, chin-up rage face saying 'Challenge accepted', used from 2010 to announce t…
- ☠Chemistry CatA cat in spectacles and a bow tie behind a rack of test tubes, delivering science puns in…
- ▲Chum Drum BedrumThe Russian singer Vitas performing The 7th Element, retitled after what English speakers…
- ☠Close EnoughThe rage face with the raised eyebrow and the lopsided mouth, captioned 'Close enough', u…
- ☠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…
- ↺Creeper, Aw ManThe opening line of 'Revenge', a Minecraft parody of Usher's 'DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love' …
- ●CreepypastaHorror fiction that circulates as rumour. The genre in which authorship is not just unkno…
- ◐DAE'Does anyone else' — the opening of a post seeking company in a private habit, which beca…
- ●Dark SoulsFromSoftware's 2011 successor to Demon's Souls, the game that turned difficulty into a pe…
- ☠Deal With ItA GIF in which pixel sunglasses drop onto any face, followed by the words 'Deal with it' …
- ●DieselpunkSteampunk's younger, grimier sibling: the aesthetic of the 1920s–40s run forward — art de…
- ☠DolanA grotesquely misdrawn Donald Duck, speaking in misspelled captions ('gooby pls'), who be…
- ◐DropboxThe folder that syncs — Drew Houston's 2008 answer to forgetting a USB stick, which grew …
- ◐DubsA post number ending in repeated digits — 22, 777, 8888 — treated as a lucky omen and gre…
- ◐Elo HellThe rank a player believes they are trapped in by bad teammates rather than by their own …
- ●EndsOne's neighbourhood — 'my ends' — as the London slang word for home turf, and the record'…
- ●FFS'For f***'s sake' — British exasperation in three letters, typed about trains, weather an…
- ●FanficFiction written by fans about someone else's characters — fanfic — from 1960s zines into …
- ☠Feel Like a SirThe rage face in a top hat and monocle, captioned 'Feel like a sir', used from 2011 whene…
- ◐Fireboy and WatergirlTwo characters share one keyboard: one is fire and cannot touch water, the other is water…
- ◐First World ProblemsA trivial complaint, acknowledged as trivial — 'my phone charger won't reach the bed, fir…
- ◐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…
- ●GLHF'Good luck, have fun' — the pre-match courtesy of competitive gaming, typed at the start …
- ●GankTo ambush a player, usually with numbers — to gank — from MMO player-killing into the MOB…
- ●Going ViralSpreading uncontrollably — viral — as the word for anything seen by millions in a day, fr…
- ☠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…
- ●GrindingDoing a repetitive task for a reward — the grind — from MMO levelling into work, gym and …
- ◐HerobrineMinecraft's ghost: a white-eyed version of the player character said to haunt single-play…
- ●Hover HandA man's hand not quite touching the woman he is photographed with, hovering an inch from …
- ◐HumblebragA boast disguised as a complaint. Named by a comedian who died in 2015; the word is fadin…
- ●IDC'I don't care' — indifference in three letters, and, with a G and an A and an F, indiffer…
- ●IKR'I know, right?' — agreement with an upward inflection, in three letters, from mid-2000s …
- ●ILY'I love you' — in three letters, and 'ilysm' for 'so much' — as the affection of the text…
- ◐Implying'>implying' — the greentext reply that mocks an assumption by stating it: '>implying anyo…
- ●Inb4'In before' — pre-empting a predictable reply by posting it first: 'inb4 someone says ski…
- ◐Inbox ZeroMerlin Mann's 2006 doctrine of processing every email to an empty inbox — the 'zero' bein…
- ●JajajaThe Spanish typed laugh — 'ja' being 'ha' — which anglophones first met in mixed chatroom…
- ◐Jetpack JoyrideA man called Barry Steakfries steals a machine-gun jetpack from a laboratory and flies ri…
- ●K/D RatioKills divided by deaths — the number by which shooter players have measured their worth s…
- ●Karma (Reddit)Points from upvotes, which cannot be spent and are pursued anyway — karma — and 'karma wh…
- ●Kawaii'Cute' — the Japanese adjective that became a whole aesthetic (Hello Kitty, rounded handw…
- ●Kekeke (Korean Laugh)ㅋㅋㅋ — the Korean typed laugh, a row of the consonant 'k', born in PC-bang chat and Sta…
- ●Keyboard WarriorA person who is brave only when typing — the keyboard warrior — as the mid-2000s name for…
- ▲Lord BendtnerNicklas Bendtner, Arsenal's spectacularly self-assured striker, elevated by football foru…
- ●MandemOne's group of male friends — 'the mandem' — with 'gyaldem' for the women, as the London …
- ◐Manic Pixie Dream GirlThe quirky, colourful, ukulele-adjacent woman who exists in a film only to teach a sad ma…
- ☠Me GustaA face of disturbing pleasure, captioned 'me gusta' — 'I like it', in Spanish — as the ra…
- ◐Mid or FeedThe threat, typed in a MOBA lobby, that the speaker will play the middle lane or delibera…
- ◐Mods Are Asleep, Post Cats'Mods are asleep, post X' — the call to post forbidden content while the moderators are a…
- ☠Mother of GodThe rage-comic image of Brian Cox's police captain from Super Troopers lowering his sungl…
- ☠Move Fast and Break ThingsA company's official permission to itself. Retired by the company in 2014 in favour of Mo…
- ☠Not BadThe rage face with the puffed lower lip and nodding approval, traced from a May 2011 phot…
- ●OMW'On my way' — the text sent by a person who is not yet on their way, as a promise rather …
- ●OOC'Out of character' — the roleplay marker, from 1990s MUDs and forum games, that separates…
- ●OP (Overpowered)'Overpowered' — too strong, unfair, in need of a nerf — as the gamer's complaint about a …
- ●OTPOne true pairing. The couple you would defend to a stranger, and have.
- ☠OmegleTalk to strangers, on camera, at random. Ran for fourteen years and closed with a letter …
- ◐One Does Not SimplyBoromir's warning about Mordor, as the caption for anything that is not simple: 'one does…
- ☠One Weird TrickA promise of a secret that doctors hated. Ran the advertising economy of the low-quality …
- ●Oppa'Older brother' — the Korean term a woman uses for an older male, including the boyfriend…
- ◐PTDR'Pété de rire' — bursting with laughter — the stronger French typed laugh, one rung above…
- ●Park the BusTo defend with every player behind the ball and no intention of leaving. José Mourinho us…
- ●PermabannedBanned forever — permabanned, 'perma'd' — as the forum's capital punishment, and the reco…
- ●Power UserA user who uses a thing more than it was designed for — a power user — from software into…
- ▲Red Solo CupA country drinking song addressed to a disposable plastic cup, which gathered four millio…
- ●RepostSomething already posted, posted again. Also the mechanism by which everything in this di…
- ◐RootingThe Android version of jailbreaking — gaining administrator access to your own phone so y…
- ●Rule 63For every character, there is a version of the opposite sex. Less famous than its neighbo…
- ●SMH'Shaking my head' — disappointment, compressed — from AAVE text culture into general use …
- ●SasaengA fan who invades an idol's private life — following taxis, obtaining phone numbers, brea…
- ●SauceA request for where an image came from. Now asked about everything, and answered about al…
- ☠SeapunkTeal hair, dolphins, Windows 95 marble textures. Ran for about eighteen months before the…
- ●ShippingWanting two characters to be in a relationship. The founding verb of fandom, and now also…
- ◐Shut Up and Take My MoneyFry from Futurama thrusting a wad of dollars at the screen, from a 2010 episode about a p…
- ●SiriThe voice assistant Apple shipped on the iPhone 4S in October 2011, the first one hundred…
- ●SoundGood, decent, reliable — 'he's sound' — as the Northern and Irish word for the highest pr…
- ◐StarCraft IIThe sequel Korea waited twelve years for, released in three parts across 2010 to 2015. It…
- ◐Sub4Sub'Sub4sub' — subscribe to me and I'll subscribe to you — as the late-2000s comment-section…
- ◐Temple RunAn explorer runs from demon monkeys along a temple wall, turning by swipe and jumping by …
- ☠The Most Interesting Man in the WorldThe bearded gentleman from the Dos Equis beer adverts, captioned 'I don't always X / but …
- ●This ^'This' — with an arrow pointing up at the post above — as the forum's way of agreeing wit…
- ☠True StoryThe image of Neil Patrick Harris nodding in a suit, captioned 'True story', that closed r…
- ◐VaguebookingPosting something deliberately vague to provoke concern — 'some people just don't get it'…
- ●Wall of TextA post with no paragraph breaks, presented as an assault — a wall of text — and the reply…
- ☠Watch Out, We Got a Badass Over HereA line drawing of Neil deGrasse Tyson with both hands raised, traced from a 2011 intervie…
- ◐Why Not Both?A small girl in an Old El Paso advert asking, in Spanish, why the family cannot have both…
- ●Works on My MachineThe developer's defence when code fails for everyone else — 'works on my machine' — as th…
- ☠Y U No'Y U NO' — a screaming face from a manga, captioned with a complaint in broken English: '…
- ☠YOLOYou only live once, as a justification. Twenty months from the song to teachers saying it…
- ●Yak ShavingDoing a small task that is necessary for a task that is necessary for a task, until you a…
- ☠Yao Ming FaceThe line drawing of basketball player Yao Ming mid-laugh, traced from a 2009 press confer…
- ▲YouTube AnnotationsThe clickable text boxes, arrows and speech bubbles laid over a YouTube video — annotatio…
- ●iPhone (2007)The first iPhone, announced in January 2007 and sold from 29 June, which put a real web b…
- ●tl;drToo long; didn't read, first as an insult, then as a courtesy summary. The rare term that…
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- ↺AI WinterA period when funding, faith and jobs in AI dry up after the promises fail. Named at a 19…
- ▲Angry German KidA 2006 video of a German teenager smashing his keyboard and screaming at a slow-loading U…
- ☠BlogosphereThe idea that independent sites linking to each other formed a single conversation. Died …
- ▲Boom Goes the DynamiteA Ball State student sportscaster's four-minute ordeal on college TV in March 2005, in wh…
- ▲Charlie the UnicornJason Steele's 2005 Flash cartoon in which two manic unicorns drag a grumpy one to Candy …
- ↺CybergothNeon dreadfalls, goggles, gas masks, platform boots and a dance that looks like stamping …
- ↺DecoraDozens of hair clips, layered neon, plastic toys pinned to a cardigan, and a colour count…
- ☠Demotivational PosterA black border, a photo, a caption, a subtitle that undermined it. The meme format that c…
- ↺Diablo IIClick, loot, repeat, over a modem, in a dungeon crawler that defined the action RPG and r…
- ▲Dramatic ChipmunkFive seconds of a prairie dog on a Japanese television show turning to the camera, with a…
- ☠Draw SomethingPictionary by phone, fifty million downloads in fifty days, bought for $180 million in we…
- ↺Final Fantasy XIVSquare Enix's MMO, released in 2010 in a state that led the company to apologise, replace…
- ☠First!A comment announcing that it was the first comment. A race to be seen having nothing to s…
- ☠Forum SignatureA block of quotes, banners and a Naruto GIF under every post you made. The last place on …
- ▲GOFAIGood Old-Fashioned AI: the philosopher John Haugeland's 1985 name for the approach that t…
- ↺GowallaChecking in to places, with better stamps than Foursquare. Bought and closed by Facebook …
- ▲I Like TurtlesA local-news reporter asks a boy in zombie face-paint what he thinks of his makeup; he re…
- ▲Indian ThrillerA dance scene from the Indian film Donga, given English subtitles that phonetically appro…
- ☠KazaaThe file-sharing program that inherited Napster's users in 2001 and handed them, in excha…
- ☠Keyboard CatA cat in a blue shirt playing someone off after a failure. The pistachio adverts arrived …
- ☠Kony 2012A thirty-minute film asking you to make a warlord famous, viewed a hundred million times …
- ▲Little SuperstarA break-dancing sequence from a 1990 Tamil film, performed by the short-statured actor kn…
- ☠LolcatCat photograph plus deliberately broken grammar. Taught the web that a caption is a langu…
- ☠Lolwut'Lol, what?' — amused confusion, in one word, with a painting of a pear as its image — as…
- ☠Long TailThe theory that niche products would together outsell the hits. Right about the shape of …
- ☠LongcatA white cat held vertically, described as long. Its real name was Nobiko, and it lived un…
- ▲Mass Effect 3BioWare's 2012 finale, whose three-colour ending prompted the first mass fan campaign aga…
- ☠MegauploadFour per cent of all internet traffic, one New Zealand mansion, and a police helicopter. …
- ▲MinesweeperThe grid of hidden mines that came free with every copy of Windows from 3.1 in 1992 to 7,…
- ▲Pants on the GroundA chant performed by 'General' Larry Platt at an American Idol audition in Atlanta on 13 …
- ▲Penguin of Doom'hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork*' — the opening of a mid-2000s copypasta written…
- ☠Ping (Apple)Apple's music social network, bolted into iTunes 10 in September 2010, in which you could…
- ↺PokeA button that notified someone you had pressed a button. Nobody could ever explain it; Fa…
- ▲Pool's ClosedThe 2006 catchphrase of 4chan's raids on Habbo Hotel, in which identical suited avatars w…
- ▲PwnedDefeated, from a missed key. Kept alive past its natural span by a security website that …
- ▲RevoLucianLucian Piane, a producer who took leaked audio of celebrities losing their temper and cut…
- ▲Rules of the InternetA numbered list of joke commandments, of which only 34 and 63 survived. The rest are of i…
- ▲Shoop Da WhoopA crudely drawn face with enormous lips that fires a beam from its mouth while shouting '…
- ↺Silent Hill 2A man receives a letter from his dead wife and goes to a foggy town to find her. The 2001…
- ▲Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)Beyoncé and two dancers in black and white, in leotards, performing choreography that peo…
- ▲SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that matters, with the first comment moderation system that worked.…
- ▲Slashdot EffectA small site collapsing under sudden attention from a large one. The concept survives; on…
- ▲Sneezing Baby PandaA mother panda chewing quietly until her cub sneezes and she jumps out of her skin — sixt…
- ↺Solitaire (Windows)Klondike solitaire, written by a Microsoft intern who was never paid for it and shipped w…
- ▲T9'Text on 9 keys' — the predictive typing on a numeric keypad, from 1997, that let a perso…
- ☠TebowingKneeling in prayer on one knee wherever you happened to be. Trademarked by the quarterbac…
- ▲The Lazer CollectionDom Fera's 2008 series of animated sketches in which anyone, at any moment, fires a laser…
- ▲The Mysterious Ticking NoiseNeil Cicierega's 2007 puppet sketch in which Snape, Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione and Harry c…
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From the blog, 2012
The meme will NEVER die. Miss you Steve... [PIC]21 Sep 2012
My dad's not so good with texting. [PIC]14 Aug 2012
I Guess She Forgot My Name - Starbucks [PIC]13 Aug 2012
Seems Legit [PIC]13 Aug 2012
Bob Marley CD Collection [PIC]13 Aug 2012
Teddy the Asshole Cat [VIDEO]13 Aug 2012
Me - Internet - Life Goals [COMIC]1 Aug 2012
Browser Wars in a Nutshell [PIC]1 Aug 2012
Forever A-bagel [PIC]23 Jul 2012
Awkward into awesome [PIC]23 Jul 2012
If trees had eyes [COMIC]23 Jul 2012
Kanye West's next music video [PIC]23 Jul 2012
Me - Internet - Life Goals [COMIC]1 Aug 2012
Browser Wars in a Nutshell [PIC]1 Aug 2012
Forever A-bagel [PIC]23 Jul 2012
Awkward into awesome [PIC]23 Jul 2012
If trees had eyes [COMIC]23 Jul 2012
Kanye West's next music video [PIC]23 Jul 2012