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Born in 2014 103
- ☠#8days8videosA release strategy: eight music videos over eight consecutive days, each premiered on a d…
- ●100 Emoji💯 — 'keep it a hundred', total agreement, full marks — as the emoji that means 'exactly'…
- ◐2048Sliding tiles together until they reached a number. Made in a weekend, played by everyone…
- ●@channelThe notification that reaches everyone, used by people who should not have it — '@channel…
- ◐Adulting FailThe failure to do a grown-up task — forgetting the bins, burning rice — posted as an 'adu…
- ●Aesthetic (n.)A look, a mood, a colour scheme and a set of references, treated as a countable noun and …
- ☠Alex from TargetA teenage cashier photographed by a customer and famous by the evening. On Ellen within a…
- ●AlexaAmazon's voice assistant, launched inside a cylinder in November 2014 and in tens of mill…
- ●Alignment (AI)The problem of making an AI system want what its makers want, or at least do it. Stuart R…
- ●AnemoiaNostalgia for a time you never knew — the 1980s mall, the 2007 internet, the summer of 19…
- ●Apology VideoThe genre in which a creator, filmed in a plain room with no music and often no make-up, …
- ↺Assassin's Creed UnityUbisoft's Paris game, released in November 2014 with a bug that removed characters' faces…
- ●Attention (Mechanism)The operation at the heart of a transformer: for each word, compute how much every other …
- ●Aunty (Desi Internet)The aunty — any older woman with opinions about one's weight, marriage and career — as a …
- ●Bot FarmA bank of automated accounts run from one place to like, follow, retweet and trend on dem…
- ●Bottled ItTo lose from a winning position through nerves — 'bottled it', 'bottlers', 'bottle job' —…
- ●Bruh'Bro', flattened into a sound of disbelief — 'bruh' — which became a Vine sound in 2014, …
- ◐Brutalist Web DesignRaw HTML, system fonts, no decoration, on purpose. The one aesthetic in this record that …
- ☠But That's None of My BusinessA frog sipping tea after saying something pointed. Lipton got two years of free advertisi…
- ●Callout PostA post listing someone's wrongs, with evidence, for the community to judge — the callout …
- ●Cassette FuturismThe future as imagined with CRT monitors, beige plastic, chunky keyboards and reels of ta…
- ◐ChandelierA Sia song whose video — a child dancer alone in a peeling apartment, in a nude leotard a…
- ☠CortanaMicrosoft's assistant, named after the artificial intelligence in Halo and launched on Wi…
- ◐Crossy RoadA blocky chicken crosses an endless road, river and railway, one hop at a time, and a gif…
- ●Crying CatA cat with glassy, wet eyes, edited to look like it is about to cry, used for any small s…
- ●Dame TimeDamian Lillard's wrist-tap — 'Dame Time' — for a late shot that ends a game, first proper…
- ●Dark ArtsTime-wasting, tactical fouls, feigned injuries and the long walk off when substituted: th…
- ☠DestinyBungie's first game after Halo, released in September 2014 with $500 million of shipped c…
- ◐DramaAlertThe YouTube 'news' show run by Daniel Keem — Keemstar — from 2014, which reported feuds b…
- ●Ego LiftLifting more than you can for the people watching, with the form of a man falling over — …
- ◐FamFriends addressed as family. Fading in public use, though still the standard vocative of …
- ●Fellow KidsA brand or an adult trying too hard to sound young. The GIF is from 2012 and the situatio…
- ●Fire Emoji🔥 — approval, heat, excellence — as the emoji under any good photo, song or outfit, and …
- ☠Fish Plays PokémonA Twitch stream in August 2014 in which a betta fish called Grayson Hopper played Pokémon…
- ●Five Nights at Freddy'sA night guard watches security cameras in a pizzeria while animatronic animals walk towar…
- ☠Fleek'On fleek' — perfect, flawless — coined by a teenager on Vine in June 2014 about her eyeb…
- ●FloofA very fluffy animal, or the fluff itself — 'look at this floof' — as the internet's word…
- ◐GANGenerative adversarial network: two networks trained against each other, a forger making …
- ●GOTY DiscourseThe annual December argument about which game of the year was the game of the year, which…
- ◐Gang BeastsGelatinous figures in costumes grab each other and try to throw one another off a roof, o…
- ☠GirlbossA female founder, as a brand identity. Died in the summer of 2020 when several of the fou…
- ◐Goat SimulatorA Swedish studio's game-jam joke about being a goat, released on Steam on 1 April 2014 wi…
- ↺Halo: The Master Chief CollectionMicrosoft's 2014 compilation of four Halo games, whose online matchmaking failed at launc…
- ●HangryAngry because hungry. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018 and survived the hon…
- ◐HearthstoneA Warcraft-themed digital card game, made by a small Blizzard team, that became the bigge…
- ●Hellsite'This hellsite' — the affectionate name for any platform by the people who cannot leave i…
- ☠I Am BreadA slice of bread crawls across a kitchen trying to become toast, controlled one corner at…
- ☠Ice Bucket ChallengeCold water, a nomination, a donation. Raised $115 million for ALS in eight weeks and fund…
- ●Icon'Icon', 'iconic', 'an icon' — the stan internet's word for anything memorable, applied to…
- ●Jackbox Party PackA bundle of party games played on one screen with everyone's phone as the controller, fro…
- ☠Kim Kardashian: HollywoodA celebrity-simulator game in which the player climbs from E-list to A-list by attending …
- ●Mamba MentalityKobe Bryant's name for his own obsessive work ethic — 'Mamba Mentality', after his Black …
- ●Mario Kart 8Nintendo's kart racer, released for the Wii U in May 2014 with anti-gravity tracks and Lu…
- ◐Monument ValleyA princess called Ida walks through Escher buildings that rearrange when you turn them, i…
- ●Murder Mystery 2A Roblox round game with one murderer, one sheriff and a room of innocents, and a trading…
- ●MutingSilencing someone without their knowledge — a mute — as the polite alternative to blockin…
- ☠Netflix and ChillAn invitation with a euphemism inside it. Explained in every newspaper's lifestyle sectio…
- ☠NidhoggTwo fencers in flat colours fight a tug-of-war across a set of screens, and the winner is…
- ●Not Your Keys, Not Your CoinsThe warning that anything held on someone else's platform is theirs, not yours — said aft…
- ☠Octodad: Dadliest CatchAn octopus in a suit pretends to be a human father, with each limb steered separately and…
- ☠On FleekPerfectly done, of eyebrows. Coined in a six-second video, used by IHOP within a year, an…
- ◐Oui Oui Baguette'Oui oui baguette' — the anglophone internet's entire impression of the French language, …
- ●Peach and Eggplant🍑🍆 — the two fruits that the internet made into anatomy, so thoroughly that Instagram b…
- ●Pessi and PenaldoThe insult names each side of the Messi–Ronaldo war gives the other — 'Pessi' for a Messi…
- ◐Piano TilesBlack tiles fall in four columns and you tap them and not the white ones, faster and fast…
- ●Press F to Pay RespectsA game's instruction to press F at a funeral, which the internet found so absurd that 'F'…
- ◐REEE'REEEEE' — a scream of rage, typed, associated with a furious Pepe and used to mock anyon…
- ●Red Arrow ThumbnailThe thick red arrow pointing at something in a thumbnail — a small object, a face, nothin…
- ●Renaissance Painting MemeAny photograph of a crowd, a pitch or a brawl with the composition of a Baroque painting,…
- ◐Rush BThe Counter-Strike call to run straight at bombsite B with no plan, typically attributed …
- ●Same'Same' — agreement with a feeling, in one word, as the reply to a picture of a dog asleep…
- ☠Sample TextThe words 'Sample Text' in a default font, floating across an MLG parody video where a ca…
- ●Satya NadellaMicrosoft's chief executive since 2014, who backed OpenAI in 2019 when it was a research …
- ●Saudade (Meme)The Portuguese word for longing for something absent — which the internet's 'untranslatab…
- ●Scottish TwitterThe Scots dialect, typed phonetically, applied to everyday disasters — 'ma maw', 'a wee',…
- ●Screaming'Screaming' — typed in capitals, alone, by a person who is not screaming, as the reaction…
- ●SealioningPersistent, polite requests for evidence intended to exhaust rather than learn. Named for…
- ☠SecretAnonymous confessions from people in your contacts. Raised $35 million, ran for sixteen m…
- ◐Shia LaBeouf LiveA song by Rob Cantor narrating, in mounting detail, a version of the actor Shia LaBeouf w…
- ◐Shovel KnightA blue knight with a shovel fights eight other knights in a game that looks like it is fr…
- ◐Sitya LossThe Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo's song, carried worldwide by the video's dancers: four boys…
- ●Slide Into DMsTo open a private message to someone you fancy, on a platform where you had been merely a…
- ●SoulslikeA genre named after a game: any action game with bonfires-by-another-name, stamina, a dod…
- ●Starter Pack (Meme)A collage of objects that define a type — 'the guy who peaked in high school starter pack…
- ●Stream SnipingWatching a streamer's broadcast to find and attack them in the game — stream sniping — as…
- ●The Sims 4The life simulator that outlived its own sequel plans, released in September 2014 without…
- ●Thread (Twitter)A chain of tweets telling a longer story — a thread — marked with '1/' or a 🧵 and, at it…
- ◐ThreesA sliding number puzzle where ones and twos become threes and threes double up, built ove…
- ●Toe BeansThe pads on a cat's paw, which look like beans, and are called beans, and are photographe…
- ◐TriggeredA clinical word for a trauma response, turned by 2016 into a mockery — 'triggered' as a j…
- ●Try Not to LaughThe compilation format — 'Try Not to Laugh Challenge', a dozen short clips of falls, anim…
- ◐Turn Down for WhatA DJ Snake and Lil Jon track whose entire viral function is the two seconds after Lil Jon…
- ☠Twitch Plays PokémonEighty thousand people controlling one Game Boy by typing commands in chat. Sixteen days,…
- ●Two ButtonsA sweating man choosing between two buttons — a comic panel from 2014 that became the for…
- ●USB-CThe oval, reversible connector finalised in August 2014, which promised one cable for eve…
- ●Unsubscribe HellThe experience of trying to leave a subscription that was one click to join — a phone lin…
- ◐UnturnedA free zombie survival game with blocky characters, made by a sixteen-year-old in Canada …
- ●VRChatA social platform of user-made worlds and avatars, playable in a headset or on a monitor,…
- ☠Watch DogsUbisoft's hacking game, shown at E3 2012 in a demo that made the audience believe a new c…
- ●Welcome to BloxburgA Roblox life simulator of jobs, houses and neighbourhoods, famous for charging 25 Robux …
- ▲When Mama Isn't HomeA father on trombone and his son on an oven door, playing along to Freaks. Filmed in Octo…
- ☠WokeAlert to injustice. Taken up, then taken over, then used exclusively by its opponents, wh…
- ◐YeetTo throw with force and joy — from a Vine dance in 2014 to a verb every child used and ev…
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- ◐1v1 MeThe challenge to a duel, issued over Xbox Live in the late 2000s by anyone who had just l…
- ☠A Dark RoomA text page with a button that says 'stoke fire', then a stranger, then wood, then a vill…
- ☠BaeA partner, before anyone else. Tweeted by Olive Garden and Burger King in the same month,…
- ☠BasicLiking mainstream things, as an accusation. Was a pumpkin spice latte for a year and died…
- ●ClickbaitA headline that promises more than the article. Named in 2006, industrialised by 2013, an…
- ●Context CollapseEvery audience you have, in the same room, reading the same post. Named by academics and …
- ●Cunningham's LawThe best way to get a right answer online is to post a wrong one. Still the fastest resea…
- ●Daebak'Jackpot', 'amazing' — the Korean exclamation that dramas and variety shows made unavoida…
- ◐DisruptionDestroying an industry and calling it progress — disruption — from a 1997 business theory…
- ●DoxxingPublishing someone's real name and address. Older than the web and now in the dictionary,…
- ◐F4F'Follow for follow' — the offer to exchange followers, with 'L4L' for likes and 'S4S' for…
- ●FeelsEmotions, as a plural noun — 'the feels', 'right in the feels' — from the board that inve…
- ☠Flappy BirdA bird, some pipes, and one tap. Removed from sale by its author at the height of its fam…
- ●Garry's ModA sandbox built on Half-Life 2 in which players spawn props, weld them together, and pose…
- ●GmailGoogle's webmail, announced on 1 April 2004 with a gigabyte of free storage at a time whe…
- ▲Google+ CommentsThe November 2013 change that required a Google+ account to comment on YouTube, delivered…
- ●HMU'Hit me up' — the invitation to contact, from 2009 texting into Instagram bios and dating…
- ●Hay DayA farm game of crops, animals and a roadside shop, played on a slower clock than almost a…
- ☠Health GothBlack sportswear worn as an aesthetic rather than for sport. Died of a trend piece, like …
- ◐Humans of New YorkBrandon Stanton's project of photographing strangers in New York and posting the picture …
- ◐If It Fits, I SitsThe cat's law — any container is a seat — as a caption from the lolcat era that outlived …
- ●K.The single letter reply — 'k' — that means 'I have read this and I am not happy', with a …
- ●Let It GoThe song from Frozen, sung by Idina Menzel as Elsa, which spread past the film and into e…
- ◐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…
- ☠MiiverseA social network drawn in handwriting by children about video games. The gentlest communi…
- ◐MovieStarPlanetA Danish browser world in which children play film stars, make short animations, buy clot…
- ☠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…
- ●OFC'Of course' — the acronym of easy agreement, from mid-2000s chat, whose tone runs from wa…
- ◐OOMF'One of my followers' — the anonymous reference to a specific person everyone can guess, …
- ◐OutlastA journalist with a camcorder walks into a Colorado asylum and spends the rest of the gam…
- ☠Pastel GothLilac hair, inverted crosses, a bat-shaped bag, creepers and everything in pink — pastel …
- ●PhotobombAppearing uninvited in a stranger's photograph. Given a permanent place in the language b…
- ◐Puzzle & DragonsA match-three puzzle combined with a monster-collecting gacha, played on a board of orbs …
- ☠QuizUpA real-time quiz against a stranger in one of hundreds of topics, from Icelandic startup …
- ●Roko's BasiliskA thought experiment from a 2010 forum post: a future superintelligence might punish ever…
- ↺Sad GirlLana Del Rey lyrics over film stills, a cigarette, a tear, a caption about being tired — …
- ●SelfieA photograph of yourself, by yourself, at arm's length. Word of the Year in 2013 and has …
- ●SenpaiAn upperclassman or senior — the Japanese honorific that anglophone fandom around 2012 tu…
- ☠Sharing EconomyRenting things to strangers, described as generosity. Died when it became clear that noth…
- ☠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…
- ◐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 …
- ●SlendermanA tall figure in the treeline. The first folk monster in history with a documented birth …
- ◐SubtweetA complaint about someone who is not named but will know. Fading with the platform it was…
- ●Super Smash Bros. MeleeA GameCube party game that became a competitive fighting game against its publisher's wis…
- ◐TBT'Throwback Thursday' — the weekly permission to post an old photo, from 2011 Instagram in…
- ●TFW'That feel when' — the caption for a shared feeling, usually a sad one, from 4chan's 'tfw…
- ●TIL'Today I learned' — the prefix for a fact you found on the internet and are now presentin…
- ●Talking AngelaA white cat in Paris that chats with the player by text, and the subject of a 2013 and 20…
- ●Talking TomA grey cat that repeats what the player says in a high voice and can be poked, fed and dr…
- ●The Binding of IsaacA crying child flees into a basement from a mother who has heard the voice of God, and sh…
- ☠TowerFallFour archers on a single screen with three arrows each, and a rule that you can catch an …
- ●UnfollowTo stop following, and the small social death of noticing you have been unfollowed, track…
- ●WBU'What about you' — the return question, in three letters, that keeps a text conversation …
- ◐White KnightA man who defends a woman online in the hope of reward — the white knight — as the 2008–1…
- ●YandereThe tsundere's dangerous cousin: a character who is sweet ('dere') and sick with it ('yan…
- ↺Yik YakAnonymous posts visible only within a few miles. Beloved on campuses, banned by campuses,…
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- ↺009 Sound SystemAn electronic project whose tracks became the default sound of amateur YouTube because Au…
- ☠Advice AnimalsA face on a coloured background, two lines of Impact, one character trait. The industrial…
- ▲Ai Se Eu Te PegoA Brazilian sertanejo song that escaped Brazil through goal celebrations and holiday club…
- ☠Alex from TargetA teenage cashier photographed by a customer and famous by the evening. On Ellen within a…
- ▲Animal Crossing: Wild WorldA village of animals, a mortgage to a raccoon, and a clock that ran in real time so the s…
- ▲Are You Serious FaceThe rage face with one enormous eye, one slit and a mouth clamped in disbelief, used when…
- ☠Bad Luck BrianA school photo, braces, a plaid sweater vest and a two-line tragedy. The subject sold the…
- ☠Battlefield 1942Sixty-four players, tanks, planes and boats on Second World War maps, in a game where the…
- ☠Business CatA cat in a tie, captioned with corporate instructions in a cat's priorities — 'I need tho…
- ☠Candy Box!A page that counts candies, one per second, in ASCII text, and slowly grows a shop, a que…
- ▲Cereal GuyThe rage-comic character who reads a newspaper, hears something implausible and sprays hi…
- ☠Condescending WonkaGene Wilder's Wonka, chin on hand, captioned with sarcasm — 'oh, you're a gamer? Tell me …
- ☠Courage WolfA snarling wolf on a colour-wheel background dispensing violent encouragement in Impact f…
- ☠DolanA grotesquely misdrawn Donald Duck, speaking in misspelled captions ('gooby pls'), who be…
- ↺Epic Sax GuySergey Stepanov, saxophonist for Moldova's SunStroke Project, thrusting his hips through …
- ☠Fish Plays PokémonA Twitch stream in August 2014 in which a betta fish called Grayson Hopper played Pokémon…
- ☠Flappy BirdA bird, some pipes, and one tap. Removed from sale by its author at the height of its fam…
- ☠Forever AloneA crying face with a lumpy head, used to announce solitude with a joke attached. Sadder i…
- ☠Foul Bachelor FrogAn Advice Animal of 2009 — a frog on a green colour wheel confessing the domestic habits …
- ☠Foursquare MayorThe title given to whoever checked in most at a place. Coffee shops gave mayors free drin…
- ☠Free RealmsA free online world for children from the makers of EverQuest, with jobs, kart racing, a …
- ▲Fuck Yea GuyThe rage face with the confident stride, jutting chin and closed-eye smirk that ended com…
- ☠Good Guy GregA smiling man with a joint, captioned with small acts of decency — 'borrows your pen, giv…
- ☠Honey Badger Don't CareA nature documentary clip re-narrated in January 2011 by a man called Randall, in a camp,…
- ▲I Can Has CheezburgerThe site that turned lolcats into a business with a headcount. Still online; nobody has n…
- ▲I Wanna Be the GuyA small boy called The Kid tries to become The Guy through a set of levels that kill him …
- ☠Ice Bucket ChallengeCold water, a nomination, a donation. Raised $115 million for ALS in eight weeks and fund…
- ☠Insanity WolfThe inverted, black-and-white version of Courage Wolf, created in 2009 to give the same a…
- ☠Joseph DucreuxAn eighteenth-century self-portrait of the French painter Joseph Ducreux, pointing and sm…
- ☠Lame Pun CoonA raccoon on a green background grinning at its own terrible pun, a 2010 Advice Animal wh…
- ▲Leeroy JenkinsA man shouting his own name and ruining a plan. Was staged, which nobody minded, then app…
- ▲Lip DubA video in which a group mimes a song in one continuous take, usually with the camera wal…
- ☠Me GustaA face of disturbing pleasure, captioned 'me gusta' — 'I like it', in Spanish — as the ra…
- ☠Move Fast and Break ThingsA company's official permission to itself. Retired by the company in 2014 in favour of Mo…
- ▲Muppets Bohemian RhapsodyThe Muppets performing a rearranged Bohemian Rhapsody, with Animal on the operatic sectio…
- ☠Musically Oblivious 8th GraderA 2010 Advice Animal — a teenage girl on a pink background who thinks 'Smells Like Teen S…
- ↺Nyan CatA pop-tart cat trailing a rainbow, looped forever. Sold for roughly $590,000 a decade aft…
- ▲Okay GuyThe sad, slumped rage face with downcast eyes and a small 'okay' — the reaction to being …
- ▲One Pound FishA market trader's sales patter, sung at a fish stall in London and filmed by passers-by, …
- ☠One Weird TrickA promise of a secret that doctors hated. Ran the advertising economy of the low-quality …
- ☠Open DiaryThe first site where strangers could comment on your diary. Everything about the social w…
- ☠OrkutGoogle's first social network, enormous in Brazil and India and invisible to the people w…
- ☠Overly Attached GirlfriendA stare, a smile, a hundred thousand captions about checking your phone. The subject reti…
- ☠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…
- ▲Rage GuyThe crudely drawn screaming head that closed the first rage comic in 2008 — a four-panel …
- ☠Sad KeanuA paparazzi photograph of Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich alone on a bench in New York, wh…
- ☠Sheltering Suburban MomA 2010 Advice Animal featuring a smiling suburban woman on a yellow background whose capt…
- ☠SimCity (2013)EA's 2013 SimCity, an always-online reboot whose servers failed for its first week, whose…
- ☠Slender: The Eight PagesA free first-person game in which you collect eight pages from a dark forest while a tall…
- ☠Socially Awkward PenguinA penguin walking away from a difficult moment. Died in 2015 when the photograph's owner …
- ▲The DecisionLeBron James's one-hour ESPN special of 8 July 2010 — 'I'm going to take my talents to So…
- ☠Tiny WingsA round bird with wings too small to fly slides down hills and up the other side, gaining…
- ▲TrollfaceA grin drawn in MS Paint that meant the whole thing was a setup. One of the few memes wit…
- ☠Twitch Plays PokémonEighty thousand people controlling one Game Boy by typing commands in chat. Sixteen days,…
- ☠U Mad Bro'You mad, bro?' — the troll's question to a victim, asked with a Trollface, as the 2009–1…
- ▲Unregistered HyperCam 2The watermark 'Unregistered HyperCam 2' in the top-left corner of a screen recording — as…
- ☠Watch DogsUbisoft's hacking game, shown at E3 2012 in a demo that made the audience believe a new c…
- ☠Y U No'Y U NO' — a screaming face from a manga, captioned with a complaint in broken English: '…
- ☠Yahoo DirectoryTwo graduate students listing every website by hand, in categories. Worked until the web …
From the blog, 2014
Russian 'Humanitarian Convoy' Heads for Separatist Moldovan Region14 Nov 2014
Watch President Obama on Zach Galifianakis` Between Two Ferns12 Nov 2014
RECAP: The Bachelor Watch Juan Pablo Makes His Pick And One It`s Okay?11 Oct 2014
100 Stangers Were Asked to Kiss For the First Time and It Was Strangely Beautiful10 Oct 2014
Snake Skin Change [PIC]17 Sep 2014
If Rammstein did code [PIC]17 Sep 2014
R [GIF]17 Sep 2014
Every time [GIF]17 Sep 2014
If you open more than a hundred tabs in mobile Chrome, something special happens. [PIC]17 Sep 2014
When you see it... [GIF]10 Aug 2014
The Truth about BuzzFeed. [PIC]10 Aug 2014
Wasn't expecting that one [PIC]10 Aug 2014