99 born · 55 peaked · 68 died · 12 blog posts
Born in 2013 99
- ●-Core (Suffix)The suffix that turns any noun into an aesthetic — -core — as the fragment that travelled…
- ☠A Dark RoomA text page with a button that says 'stoke fire', then a stranger, then wood, then a vill…
- ●AITA'Am I the asshole?' — a subreddit for moral judgement, whose verdicts (NTA, YTA, ESH) bec…
- ●ARMYBTS's fandom — ARMY, 'Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth', named on 9 July 2013 — the…
- ☠Aliens: Colonial MarinesGearbox's Aliens shooter, released in February 2013 after six years and a 2012 demo that …
- ☠AntichamberA white maze where corridors lead back to where you started, stairs go down into the room…
- ☠BaeA partner, before anyone else. Tweeted by Olive Garden and Burger King in the same month,…
- ●Bag HolderSomeone left holding an asset after everyone else has sold — the bag, the holding, the lo…
- ●Banner (Gacha)A limited-time draw in a gacha game featuring one or two characters at raised odds, named…
- ☠BasicLiking mainstream things, as an accusation. Was a pumpkin spice latte for a year and died…
- ●Brandolini's LawRefuting nonsense takes an order of magnitude more effort than producing it. Also known a…
- ◐Bullet JournalA notebook system that became an art form — the bullet journal, 'bujo' — with spreads so …
- ●Buy the DipThe instruction to buy when the price falls, said with a confidence that the fall is temp…
- ▲Bwoah'Bwoah' — the sound Kimi Räikkönen made instead of an answer, transcribed by F1 fans arou…
- ☠Candy Box!A page that counts candies, one per second, in ASCII text, and slowly grows a shop, a que…
- ●Cat LoafA cat sitting with all four paws tucked under, so that it is a loaf — a loaf of cat — and…
- ◐Chinese FoodA song and video made with ARK Music Factory, the company behind 'Friday', and marketed i…
- ●Cookie ClickerA browser page with a large cookie that you click, then buy cursors and grandmas to click…
- ◐Cyka BlyatThe Russian curse that every Western gamer learned from voice chat in Counter-Strike and …
- ◐Darude - SandstormThe standing answer to the comment 'what's the song?', regardless of what the song is: Da…
- ●Data BrokerA company you have never heard of that buys, merges and sells what is known about you — a…
- ●Davai'Come on', 'let's go' — the Russian rally cry, the other thing Western gamers learned fro…
- ☠Don't Drop That Thun ThunA track that reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the strength of a six-second V…
- ●Don't StarveA gentleman scientist called Wilson is dropped into a pen-and-ink wilderness by a demon a…
- ▲Doritos and Mountain DewThe pairing of a tortilla chip and a green soft drink as the sacred foods of the ironic '…
- ●Double TextSending a second message before the first was answered — the double text — as an act of e…
- ◐Dumb Ways to DieA railway safety campaign from Melbourne in which cheerful beans die in stupid ways to a …
- ●Early AccessPaying for a game before it is finished, as a model — some finished, some did not — and t…
- ●EmbeddingA list of numbers that stands for a word, sentence or image, arranged so that similar thi…
- ☠Flappy BirdA bird, some pipes, and one tap. Removed from sale by its author at the height of its fam…
- ●GRWM'Get ready with me' — a video of someone doing their makeup or hair while talking, which …
- ◐Game of War: Fire AgeA strategy game of empires and alliances whose real product was its advertising: a campai…
- ●Geometry DashA cube jumps to the beat through spikes, dies, and starts again, and the level editor pro…
- ●Glow UpThe dramatic improvement in looks, style or life between a 'before' and an 'after' — a 'g…
- ☠Google GlassA camera on your face that made everyone around you into an unwilling participant. Died s…
- ☠Google HangoutsGoogle's chat and video-call app, launched at I/O in May 2013 to replace Google Talk, Goo…
- ▲Google+ CommentsThe November 2013 change that required a Google+ account to comment on YouTube, delivered…
- ●Grand Theft Auto VRockstar's Los Santos crime game, released in September 2013, which reached $1 billion in…
- ◐GrowtopiaA 2D sandbox of worlds built from blocks in which players trade items and run shops, casi…
- ▲GwiyomiA K-pop single released on 18 February 2013 built on the Gwiyomi Player, a counting hand-…
- ●HODLHolding a cryptocurrency through a crash, from a typo in a drunken forum post. The typo h…
- ☠Harlem ShakeOne person dancing, then everyone dancing, then a cut. The first meme to complete its ent…
- ☠Health GothBlack sportswear worn as an aesthetic rather than for sport. Died of a trend piece, like …
- ▲Illuminati ConfirmedThe caption at the end of a joke conspiracy video — a triangle, a green-tinted image, the…
- ●KenopsiaThe eeriness of a place that is usually full and is now empty — a school at night, a mall…
- ●Latent SpaceThe compressed internal space in which a model represents things, where every point is a …
- ●Left on ReadA message that has been seen and not answered — left on read — as the small cruelty that …
- ●Let It GoThe song from Frozen, sung by Idina Menzel as Elsa, which spread past the film and into e…
- ●Lurker (Twitch)A viewer who watches without chatting, and, on Twitch, a valued one — 'thanks for the lur…
- ▲MLG AirhornThe blaring stadium airhorn sample dropped into a video at the moment of a headshot, a jo…
- ●Meta AI (FAIR)Facebook's research lab, founded in December 2013 with Yann LeCun as its first director a…
- ●NTA'Not the asshole' — the verdict — and its family: YTA, ESH (everyone sucks here), NAH (no…
- ☠NormcoreDressing deliberately unremarkably. Began as a joke inside a consultancy report and was t…
- ◐Notice Me SenpaiThe 2013 Tumblr cry of the overlooked — a plea to be seen by someone one admires, cast in…
- ●Oddly SatisfyingVideo of things fitting, cutting, pouring or peeling perfectly — oddly satisfying — as th…
- ◐OutlastA journalist with a camcorder walks into a Colorado asylum and spends the rest of the gam…
- ●Pack OpeningThe video genre of a person opening virtual packs — FIFA, then Hearthstone, Pokémon, anyt…
- ◐Papers, PleaseYou are a border inspector in the fictional state of Arstotzka in 1982, checking passport…
- ●PatreonThe membership platform, founded in May 2013 by musician Jack Conte, where fans pay a cre…
- ●ProblematicHaving done or said something wrong — problematic — as Tumblr's word for it in 2013, from…
- ●Problematic FaveA favourite you know you should not have — a problematic fave — as the confession that fa…
- ●Queen'Queen' — the address for any woman doing anything approvingly, and, with 'yaaas', the wh…
- ☠QuizUpA real-time quiz against a stranger in one of hundreds of topics, from Icelandic startup …
- ◐Rage BaitContent designed to make you angry enough to reply. Word of the Year in 2025, which in th…
- ●ReceiptsScreenshots proving what someone said. The reason nobody deletes anything and the reason …
- ☠Red Wedding ReactionsThe videos of people watching the ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, f…
- ◐RoarA 2013 Katy Perry single that topped charts across the world and then settled into a seco…
- ●RobinhoodThe commission-free trading app that taught a generation to buy stocks from a phone, then…
- ●RustYou wake naked on a beach with a rock, and the other players are the danger. Released int…
- ●Screenshot NotificationThe alert Snapchat sends when someone screenshots your snap — the small betrayal receipt …
- ●ShitcoinAny coin with no purpose beyond being traded, which in practice means most of them. Coine…
- ☠Shrek Is Love'Shrek is love, Shrek is life' — the refrain of a 2013 greentext story, later animated fo…
- ◐Side-Eye ChloeA two-year-old's unimpressed glance at her sister's joy, as the 2013–14 reaction image fo…
- ☠SimCity (2013)EA's 2013 SimCity, an always-online reboot whose servers failed for its first week, whose…
- ●SiuuuCristiano Ronaldo's jump-spin-and-shout celebration — 'siiiiuuu', Spanish for 'yes' stret…
- ●SlackThe workplace chat app, launched in 2013 from the ruins of a failed video game, that repl…
- ●Smash That Like ButtonThe YouTuber's request — 'smash that like button, hit subscribe, ring the bell' — said so…
- ●Soft BlockBlocking and immediately unblocking someone, so that they are forced to unfollow you with…
- ◐Space Oddity (Chris Hadfield)A Canadian astronaut singing and playing David Bowie's Space Oddity in zero gravity, with…
- ●StoriesThe 24-hour vertical slideshow — invented by Snapchat in October 2013, copied by Instagra…
- ◐Surgeon SimulatorA game in which you control each finger of a surgeon's hand separately and attempt a hear…
- ◐The Stanley ParableAn office worker called Stanley finds his colleagues gone and a narrator telling him whic…
- ●This Is FineA dog in a bowler hat drinking coffee in a burning room. Drawn in 2013, adopted by 2016, …
- ●Timed OutTemporarily silenced in chat by a moderator — timed out — as the stream's minor punishmen…
- ●To the MoonThe destination of any price that is going up — 'to the moon!' — with the rocket emoji, f…
- ☠TowerFallFour archers on a single screen with three arrows each, and a rule that you can catch an …
- ◐Trivia CrackA wheel is spun, a category comes up, and a quiz question is answered against a friend, w…
- ●Two Sentence HorrorA horror story in two sentences — the first sets up, the second turns — as a Reddit form …
- ●U Up?'You up?' — the 2 a.m. text that has one purpose and asks it in two characters, as the re…
- ●Unicorn (Startup)A private company valued at a billion dollars, named for its rarity in 2013, when there w…
- ☠VineSix seconds, looping. Still supplying the shared reference library of an entire generatio…
- ●WaifuA fictional character one loves as one would a wife — 'my waifu' — from a 2002 anime's jo…
- ●WebcoreTiled backgrounds, blinking GIFs, visitor counters, 'under construction' signs, a guestbo…
- ●Whale (Gacha)A player who spends so much that the game is, financially, for them — the casino word, im…
- ☠What Does the Fox SayTwo Norwegian brothers asking a question nobody had. Number six on the Billboard chart an…
- ☠Xbox One RevealMicrosoft's May 2013 unveiling of the Xbox One, a console described as an all-in-one ente…
- ◐Yaaas'Yes', extended, with a hand — 'yaaas' — from ballroom through a 2013 Vine to every brand…
- ●Yann LeCunMeta's chief AI scientist, inventor of the convolutional network that read cheques in the…
- ↺Yik YakAnonymous posts visible only within a few miles. Beloved on campuses, banned by campuses,…
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- ☠#blessedGrateful, in a way that showed the boat. Used sarcastically by 2014 and then not at all.
- ●360 No-ScopeSpinning a full circle and killing an opponent with a sniper rifle without using the scop…
- ◐Ask.fmThe Latvian anonymous-question site, launched in June 2010, that took over from Formsprin…
- ●Be Me'>be me' — the opening line of a greentext, establishing that the narrator is the narrato…
- ●Betteridge's LawAny headline ending in a question mark can be answered with no. Older than Betteridge, bu…
- ●BloatwareSoftware you did not ask for and cannot remove — a 1990s term for programs that had grown…
- ◐Bro FistThe closed fist pushed at the camera at the end of every early PewDiePie video, with the …
- ▲Butt FumbleMark Sanchez running into his own lineman's backside, fumbling, and watching New England …
- ●Cake DayThe anniversary of a Reddit account, marked with a cake icon and a post asking for upvote…
- ●Candy Crush SagaA match-three puzzle game of sweets, lives that regenerate on a timer and a map of levels…
- ●CatfishA person pretending to be someone else online, usually for romance — a catfish — from a 2…
- ☠Confession BearA sun bear resting its chin on a log, used from 2012 to confess things — first small and …
- ●CopypastaA block of text pasted verbatim across the web until it wears smooth. Oral tradition with…
- ●Crack ShipA pairing so unlikely it must be a joke — a crack ship — and 'rarepair' for one that is m…
- ◐Dash (Tumblr)The Tumblr dashboard, shortened — 'my dash' — as the feed of the platform that had feelin…
- ◐DayZA zombie mod for a military simulator in which the zombies were the least of it, because …
- ◐DirectionersOne Direction's fandom — Directioners — from the band's X Factor run in late 2010, the fi…
- ↺DogeA Shiba Inu annotated in coloured Comic Sans. Outlived its own irony, then outlived its o…
- ◐EvernoteThe elephant-logo note app, launched in June 2008 with the promise to 'remember everythin…
- ●FOMOFear of missing out. The rare business-school coinage that turned out to describe a real …
- ●FanonSomething so widely believed by fans that it feels official and is not — fanon — as the c…
- ◐Friend ZoneThe place where a person is kept as a friend by someone they wanted more from — the frien…
- ●GreentextA story told in green lines beginning with '>' — '>be me, >go to shop' — as the board's s…
- ☠Growth HackingMarketing, done by people who wanted to be engineers. Died when everyone realised it mean…
- ☠Grumpy CatA cat with feline dwarfism who appeared permanently displeased. Made an estimated $100 mi…
- ◐Half-Life 3 ConfirmedThe meme of finding proof of Valve's unannounced sequel in anything containing the number…
- ◐Happy WheelsA browser physics game in which a man on a Segway, a father on a bicycle with a child sea…
- ●HashtagA word with a hash in front of it, proposed by a user and initially rejected by the compa…
- ●HeadcanonSomething you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that…
- ●HitmarkerThe small white cross that flashes on the crosshair in Call of Duty when a shot lands, in…
- ◐Hotline MiamiA man in a letterman jacket gets answerphone messages telling him to go to an address and…
- ☠I Can't EvenAn unfinished sentence expressing being overwhelmed. Finished for everyone by a Times op-…
- ◐I Feel FantasticA promotional video for a singing animatronic called Tara the Android, built by John Berg…
- ☠KabosuThe Shiba Inu in the Doge photograph, rescued from a shelter by Atsuko Sato in Sakura, Ja…
- ●LadA young man who drinks, jokes and does not think — the lad — as a 1990s British type that…
- ●Let's PlayWatching someone play a game and talk. Started as text with screenshots, became an indust…
- ◐ListicleAn article that is a numbered list. Fading with the sites that lived on it, though this d…
- ◐MFW'My face when' — the caption for a reaction image, from 4chan's reaction-image culture in…
- ●MaccasMcDonald's — as Australians have called it since at least the 1980s, and as the company i…
- ☠Matrix MorpheusLaurence Fishburne in the sunglasses, captioned 'What if I told you' above a truth the re…
- ◐NeckbeardA man with a beard on his neck and not his face, as a type: socially inept, opinionated, …
- ●NightcoreExisting songs remixed to a higher pitch, usually with a faster beat, almost always by fa…
- ●Pay to WinA game where the shop beats the skill. The accusation has become so broad that it now app…
- ●PouA virtual pet in the shape of a brown blob with large eyes, fed, washed, dressed and put …
- ●ReblogTo repost with a comment attached, so that the post grows as it travels — the reblog — as…
- ☠Soft GrungeNirvana shirts with flower crowns. The Tumblr aesthetic, before Tumblr had many; killed b…
- ◐SpelunkyA man with a whip descends through caves that are different every time, and a shopkeeper …
- ◐TFW No GF'That feel when no girlfriend' — the phrase that gave the world the wojak, drawn to illus…
- ☠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…
- ●Throwaway AccountAn account created for one confession, then abandoned — a throwaway — as Reddit's mechani…
- ◐TweetA post on Twitter. Officially renamed 'post' by the platform's new owner in 2023 and igno…
- ↺VaporwaveSlowed-down mall music, Roman busts, and Japanese text. A genre about the feeling of a sh…
- ●Wat'What', with the h removed and the meaning changed — 'wat' — as the reaction to something…
- ☠Wii UNintendo's 2012 console with a tablet controller, whose name was assumed by a large share…
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- ↺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…
- ☠Aliens: Colonial MarinesGearbox's Aliens shooter, released in February 2013 after six years and a 2012 demo that …
- ☠AltaVistaThe first search engine that indexed the whole web, and the first to be beaten by a clean…
- ☠Arrow to the Knee'I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee' — the line every …
- ↺Awesome FaceThe yellow smiley with the enormous grin and eyes pointed off to one side, born around 20…
- ☠BeboThe British teenager's MySpace, sold to AOL for $850 million and bought back for $1 milli…
- ☠Blink TagText that flashed on and off. Its own inventor apologised for it, and browsers took ninet…
- ▲BoxxyA teenage girl's hyperactive 2008 vlog, rediscovered by 4chan in January 2009 and fought …
- ↺Brain AgeSums, Stroop tests and reading aloud, with a floating polygon head of a Japanese neurosci…
- ▲Brick Breaker (BlackBerry)A Breakout clone pre-installed on every BlackBerry, played with the trackball or the scro…
- ☠CanabaltA man in a suit runs across rooftops in a grey city while something large destroys it beh…
- ↺CaramelldansenA loop of two anime girls waving their hands over their heads, set to a sped-up 2001 Swed…
- ☠ChillwaveWashed-out, reverb-heavy, lo-fi summer pop — chillwave — as the genre named by the anonym…
- ☠Cool Story BroA response indicating nobody had asked. Printed on so many T-shirts that the T-shirt beca…
- ▲David After DentistA seven-year-old in the back of a car, still under dental anaesthesia, asking 'Is this re…
- ▲Defense of the AncientsA custom map for Warcraft III, passed between anonymous developers, that invented the fiv…
- ▲Desktop Tower DefenseCreeps walk across a drawing of a desk and you place towers to stop them, with no fixed p…
- ↺Diablo IIIBlizzard's 2012 Diablo, twelve years after the last, whose always-online launch produced …
- ☠DuckfaceLips pushed out and together for the camera. Named, mocked, and gone within four years; t…
- ☠Epic (2000s)'Epic' — the mid-2000s' word for anything good, from a battle to a sandwich: 'epic win', …
- ☠ErmahgerdA girl with a retainer and three paperbacks, captioned in a lisp. The subject, then a nur…
- ☠Fail WhaleA whale carried by birds, shown whenever Twitter was down, which was often. Retired when …
- ↺FirefliesA 2009 synth-pop single that returned in May 2017 as a meme in which the opening bars are…
- ☠FormspringThe anonymous-question site, launched in November 2009, where a teenager invited the worl…
- ☠Gangnam StyleA Korean pop video that broke YouTube's view counter. Danced by the UN Secretary-General,…
- ☠Google ReaderA tool for reading every site you cared about in one place, killed for being used by the …
- ↺Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasThree cities, a countryside, a gym, a jetpack and a protagonist called CJ. The 2004 game …
- ☠Harlem ShakeOne person dancing, then everyone dancing, then a cut. The first meme to complete its ent…
- ☠HotmailThe first big free webmail, launched on American Independence Day 1996 as a symbol of fre…
- ▲I Dreamed a Dream (Susan Boyle)A 47-year-old unknown singer walks onto a talent show, the judges pull faces, she sings t…
- ☠Imma Let You FinishKanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift's 2009 VMA speech — 'Imma let you finish, but B…
- ▲JK Wedding Entrance DanceA wedding party dancing up the aisle to Chris Brown's Forever instead of processing to it…
- ☠JejemonA Filipino subculture of 2010 — named for its 'jejeje' laugh — that wrote in a maximal SM…
- ☠Le (Reddit)'Le' — the French article, put in front of English words for no reason — 'le me, walking …
- ▲Literal Music VideoA music video re-sung with new lyrics that describe, deadpan, exactly what is happening o…
- ☠MSN MessengerWhere the world outside America instant-messaged. Retired into Skype in 2013, which was r…
- ☠MSN NudgeA button that shook your friend's window to get their attention. The last piece of softwa…
- ↺Marvel vs. Capcom 2Three-on-three tag fighting with fifty-six characters, a jazz soundtrack about taking you…
- ☠McKayla Is Not ImpressedGymnast McKayla Maroney's sideways pout on the London 2012 silver-medal podium, pasted in…
- ▲Milhouse Is Not a MemeThe 4chan paradox of 2007: a campaign to make Milhouse a meme, met by the reply 'Milhouse…
- ☠Narwhal Bacons at Midnight'The narwhal bacons at midnight' — a password for redditors to recognise each other in pu…
- ▲Noob TubeAn under-barrel grenade launcher used by people who could not aim. The most hated weapon …
- ☠Pet SocietyA Facebook game in which the player kept a round pet in a house, visited friends' pets an…
- ☠Pixie HollowA Disney browser world in which players were fairies in Tinker Bell's valley, with talent…
- ▲QWOPA browser game in which Q, W, O and P control a sprinter's thighs and calves independentl…
- ↺RSSSubscribing to a site directly, without an intermediary deciding what you see. Declared o…
- ☠Rage ComicCrude faces in panels, drawn badly on purpose. The last meme format that required its aud…
- ☠Red Wedding ReactionsThe videos of people watching the ninth episode of the third season of Game of Thrones, f…
- ☠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…
- ☠SimCityThe city-building game that made zoning a hobby and 'Sim' a prefix. Its trend moment ran …
- ↺SkeuomorphismSoftware pretending to be leather, felt and glass. Removed in 2013 as childish, and retur…
- ☠SwagConfidence, as an accessory. The word of 2011, worn on hats in 2012, and explained by gra…
- ▲Techno VikingA shirtless, muscled man at Berlin's 2000 Fuckparade who stops a fight, points down the s…
- ▲Thriller (Cebu Dancing Inmates)Hundreds of prisoners at a detention centre in Cebu performing Michael Jackson's Thriller…
- ↺Toontown OnlineA cartoon world where children fought robots with cream pies. Closed by Disney in Septemb…
- ☠TrololoA 1976 Soviet television clip of baritone Eduard Khil performing a wordless song with a f…
- ↺Turntable.fmAvatars DJing for each other in a room, with a bopping-head vote. Dead in two years from …
- ▲United Breaks GuitarsA country song by Sons of Maxwell about United Airlines breaking Dave Carroll's guitar an…
- ▲Video ResponseA video posted as a reply to another video and linked beneath it — a video response — as …
- ☠What Does the Fox SayTwo Norwegian brothers asking a question nobody had. Number six on the Billboard chart an…
- ▲Wii SportsTennis, bowling, golf, baseball and boxing played by waving a remote, packed in with the …
- ↺WinampIt really whipped the llama's ass. Killed by AOL in 2013, bought by a Belgian company nob…
- ☠Witch HouseSlowed hip-hop drums, occult imagery, triangles, crosses, and band names made of Unicode …
- ☠XangaA blog with eProps, where every teenager wrote a diary in public and nobody's parents kne…
- ☠Xbox One RevealMicrosoft's May 2013 unveiling of the Xbox One, a console described as an all-in-one ente…
- ☠YOLOYou only live once, as a justification. Twenty months from the song to teachers saying it…
From the blog, 2013
Siri your voice is a little different [PIC]19 Sep 2013
Anon deals with kids at GTA launch - 4chan [PIC]18 Sep 2013
Need some ice for that burn? [PIC]18 Sep 2013
Yes! That, or pineapple juice. - What goes good with Cocunut Vodka? [PIC]18 Sep 2013
Cry for attention [PIC]14 Sep 2013
Enough with this site! [PIC]10 Sep 2013
Never read office e-mail twice before sending it. [PIC]9 Sep 2013
Always read office email twice before sending it. [PIC]9 Sep 2013
Interesting Project at Kickstarter [PIC]9 Sep 2013
Twitter schmitter..... Excuse me Miss Wadjet, can I take you on a lady date? [10 PICS]2 Sep 2013
Guy hits on girl by commenting on the status mourning her deceased boyfriend. [PIC]30 Aug 2013
If Romeo and Juliet was written in modern times [PIC]30 Aug 2013