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Born in 2015 121
- ●#AdThe three-character disclosure that turns a post into an advert — #ad — adopted by influe…
- ☠AdultingDoing grown-up tasks, announced as an achievement. Made into a class you could pay for, w…
- ◐Agar.ioA browser game in which you are a circle, you eat smaller circles and larger circles eat …
- ☠And I OopDrag queen Jasmine Masters' startled 'and I oop—', recorded in a January 2015 YouTube ran…
- ●Andrej KarpathyThe researcher who was a founding member of OpenAI, ran Tesla's Autopilot vision team for…
- ●Arsenal (Roblox)A Roblox arena shooter in which every kill hands the player a different weapon, ending wi…
- ☠Art HoeYellow, a Fjällräven backpack, a Van Gogh print, an oversized shirt with a paint stain an…
- ●BYE'BYE' — not a goodbye but a dismissal of something too ridiculous to continue with, in ca…
- ☠Batman: Arkham KnightRocksteady's 2015 finale, a well-reviewed Batman game on consoles and a PC port so broken…
- ●BevA beverage, usually a beer — 'a bev', 'a few bevs' — and, in the 2019 series of Love Isla…
- ●BlepA cat's tongue, left out slightly, by accident — the blep — and the record's entry for th…
- ●BloodborneFromSoftware's gothic Souls game, released for the PlayStation 4 in March 2015 and never …
- ●Boop the SnootTo touch an animal's nose gently with one finger — 'boop' — and the nose itself, the 'sno…
- ●CancelledPublicly withdrawn from, as a person. Coined as a joke about a celebrity and has since be…
- ●CerebrasThe chip company that makes a processor the size of a dinner plate, the Wafer-Scale Engin…
- ●ChambaWork, a gig, the hustle — the Latin American slang for a job that bilingual internet uses…
- ◐Cheeky Nando'sA visit to a chicken restaurant, described in so much British slang that Americans asked …
- ●ChismeGossip — the Spanish word that Latino internet used untranslated because 'gossip' is too …
- ◐ChumboxThe grid of grotesque sponsored links at the bottom of news articles — 'Doctors Hate Her'…
- ☠Color SwitchA ball taps upward through spinning rings and must pass through the segment that matches …
- ◐Congratulations, You Played YourselfDJ Khaled's verdict on anyone whose scheme has backfired, from his 2015 Snapchat into the…
- ☠Content CopA series of long, documented takedowns of other YouTubers by Ian Carter — iDubbbz — begin…
- ●Crossover MemeTwo unrelated franchises, memes or people combined in one image — the crossover — with 't…
- ◐CuckA man who is weak, submissive, or on the wrong side — from a much older word, via a speci…
- ☠DabbingSneezing into your elbow, but a dance. Performed by the Speaker of the House of Represent…
- ●Dark AcademiaTweed, candlelight, Latin and a murder. The only aesthetic that requires reading, which h…
- ●DeadassSeriously, genuinely, no joke — 'deadass, that happened' — from New York into the interne…
- ▲Deep DreamThe 2015 image filter that turned any photograph into a field of dog faces, eyes and slug…
- ●Deez NutsThe punchline to a prank call in a 2015 Vine — 'deez nuts!' — which became a presidential…
- ●Default ParentThe parent who is the one the school calls, the one who knows the shoe size, the one whos…
- ▲DeflategateThe controversy over under-inflated footballs in the Patriots' 45–7 win over Indianapolis…
- ●Delete This'Delete this' — the reply to a post that is too embarrassing, too bad or too funny to rem…
- ●Diffusion ModelThe image-generation method behind the 2022 boom: train a network to remove a little nois…
- ●Discourse'The discourse' — the argument everyone is having today, named with an ironic definite ar…
- ●DistillationTraining a small model to imitate a big one, using the big model's outputs as the lessons…
- ◐Drake Hotline BlingDrake recoiling, then Drake approving. The two-panel preference format, so stable it no l…
- ●Elon Musk (AI)Musk in his AI role only: a co-founder and early funder of OpenAI in 2015, a departure fr…
- ●Everyone Disliked ThatA video game's notification that your companions disapproved of your choice — 'everyone d…
- ●ExposedRevealed as a fraud, a liar or worse — EXPOSED, in capitals, in a thumbnail — as the YouT…
- ●Eye Roll Emoji🙄 — the eye roll, which the internet had been asking for since 2010 and used, when it ar…
- ●Eyes Emoji👀 — 'I'm watching', 'this is interesting', 'say more' — as the reaction to gossip, a hin…
- ●Facts'Facts' — agreement stated as a verdict — with 'big facts', 'straight facts' and 'facts, …
- ●Fate/Grand OrderA gacha role-playing game in which historical and mythological figures are summoned as se…
- ●FeelsBadManA sad Pepe, and the phrase — 'feels bad, man' — from the Boy's Club comic into a Twitch e…
- ●Gift Card ScamAny scam whose final step is 'go to the shop, buy gift cards and read me the numbers' — t…
- ●Greg BrockmanOpenAI's co-founder and president, formerly Stripe's chief technology officer, who resign…
- ●Grimace Emoji😬 — the grimace, teeth bared — as the emoji for awkwardness, secondhand embarrassment an…
- ●Gut HealthThe microbiome, as sold: kefir, kimchi, fibre, 'thirty plants a week' and a probiotic in …
- ●Habibi'My darling', 'my dear' — the Arabic endearment, used to friends and strangers, that meme…
- ◐Hello (Adele)Adele on a telephone, filmed in sepia, which became the first song to sell a million unit…
- ◐Her StoryA police database from 1994 with hundreds of video clips of one woman being interviewed, …
- ●Highkey'Openly', 'very much' — 'highkey' — as the back-formation from lowkey for the feeling you…
- ☠Hit the QuanA song that existed to start a hashtag, and did: the #HitTheQuanChallenge put a very larg…
- ●Honor of KingsA five-a-side arena game played by more people than almost any other game on Earth, mostl…
- ◐HoomanA human, as spoken by a dog — 'hooman' — in the captions the internet writes for its pets…
- ●Ilya SutskeverOpenAI's co-founder and chief scientist, co-author of the 2012 AlexNet paper that started…
- ●InfluencerA person paid for being watched. Objected to by every person it describes and used by all…
- ●IntingDying on purpose to ruin a game — inting, from 'intentional feeding' — as the MOBA's word…
- ◐It's Time to Stop'It's time to stop' — shouted by Filthy Frank, the character played by George Miller, in …
- ◐Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel BeamsThe line from 9/11 conspiracy theories — that jet fuel burns too cool to melt steel — quo…
- ●John SchulmanAn OpenAI co-founder, the author of the reinforcement-learning algorithm PPO and the rese…
- ●Just Checking In'Just checking in' — the email that means 'you have not replied', softened until it sound…
- ◐Keep Talking and Nobody ExplodesOne person sees a bomb and the others have a printed manual, and nobody can see both. Bui…
- ◐LM3ALLEMA Moroccan pop single released on 2 May 2015 that became, in 2022, the first Arabic-langu…
- ☠LeafyIsHereThe channel of Calvin Vail, whose 2015–2016 videos — a chin, a Counter-Strike background,…
- ☠Left SharkA backing dancer in a shark costume who had forgotten the choreography. Katy Perry's lawy…
- ☠LitExciting, of a party. Said by a Prime Minister's spokesperson about a manifesto launch, w…
- ☠Llama DramaTwo llamas loose in a retirement community, chased live on television. The biggest thing …
- ●LowkeyQuietly, a bit, secretly — 'I lowkey love it' — with its sibling 'highkey' for the opposi…
- ☠Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainThe 2015 Metal Gear, released as its director's name was scrubbed from the marketing and …
- ☠Milly RockA 2014 song by 2 Milly whose dance went viral the following summer and then detached from…
- ◐Minion MemesYellow cartoon henchmen with a motivational quote in a bad font, shared by mothers on Fac…
- ●Natty or NotThe eternal gym question — is that physique natural, or not — as a genre of video, commen…
- ◐Nephew'Nephew' — the address for a younger, sillier person, said with an uncle's exasperation, …
- ●Nerd Emoji🤓 — the nerd face, adopted around 2021 as the reply to anyone being too pedantic, too co…
- ◐Notification SquadThe commenters who arrive within a minute of upload because the bell told them — 'notific…
- ●OT7'One true seven' — the BTS fan who loves all seven members equally and will say so in the…
- ●Open Mouth ThumbnailThe creator's face in the thumbnail, mouth wide, eyebrows up, as if the object beside the…
- ●OpenAIThe company behind ChatGPT, founded in December 2015 as a non-profit with a stated missio…
- ●Passive-Aggressive Smiley🙂 — the slightly smiling face, which is not a smile but a warning, especially from a man…
- ☠PeriscopeLive video from a phone, with hearts floating up the screen. Bought by Twitter before it …
- ●Phantom ForcesA Roblox first-person shooter with real-world weapon names, bullet drop and a rank grind,…
- ☠Pivot to VideoNewsrooms firing writers to make videos nobody watched, because a platform's numbers said…
- ☠Pizza RatA rat dragging a slice down the subway steps. New York recognised itself, then made a cos…
- ●Prayer Hands🙏 — thanks, please, blessed, or a high five, depending on who you ask — as the emoji tha…
- ↺Rare PepeA Pepe drawn in a style nobody had seen before, watermarked and traded as if it were a co…
- ●Rocket LeaguePsyonix's football-with-cars game, released in July 2015 as a free PlayStation Plus title…
- ●Role (Discord)A coloured label on a Discord user — admin, mod, regular, 'certified goblin' — as the ser…
- ◐SavageBrutally honest, approvingly. Was a Megan Thee Stallion single, and the single outlived t…
- ◐See You AgainThe Furious 7 song written as a tribute to Paul Walker, who died during production. It re…
- ●Server (Discord)A community on Discord, called a server though it is not one — 'join my server' — as the …
- ●Side HustleA second job, rebranded as ambition — the side hustle — as the 2015–19 way of describing …
- ●Smol'Small', but smaller — 'smol' — as the internet's word for anything tiny and beloved: a k…
- ●SnapstreakThe fire emoji and number that appear next to a Snapchat friend when you have snapped eac…
- ●SnekA snake, made adorable by a misspelling — 'snek' — with 'danger noodle' as its full title…
- ●Spill the TeaShare the gossip. Borrowed, like most of the last decade's good phrases, from people who …
- ●SplatoonNintendo's paint-based shooter, released for the Wii U in May 2015 and one of the few goo…
- ●SplootAn animal lying flat with its back legs stretched out behind — the sploot — first named f…
- ●Stan TwitterThe fan side of Twitter — the pop girls, the K-pop groups, the charts, the wars — with it…
- ●Super LikeTinder's blue star, launched in October 2015 — a swipe-up that tells the other person you…
- ●Tactical TimeoutThe thirty-second pause a team can call in Counter-Strike (added to the game in 2015) and…
- ●TendiesChicken tenders, as the reward a mother gives a grown son in a 2015 greentext, and, from …
- ☠The DressBlue and black, or white and gold. The entire internet arguing about one photograph for o…
- ☠The Order: 1886Sony's Victorian werewolf game, released in February 2015 with black bars across the scre…
- ●The Witcher 3: Wild HuntCD Projekt's 2015 open-world role-playing game, which sold six million copies in six week…
- ●Troll FarmAn office of paid humans posting as ordinary people to shift opinion — a troll farm — nam…
- ◐Troom TroomA YouTube channel of pastel 'DIY' videos — how to sneak sweets into class, how to prank y…
- ●UltShort for 'ultimate' — a fan's ult bias or ult group is the one above all others, the fav…
- ●Virtue SignallingExpressing an opinion to look good rather than to do good — virtue signalling — coined in…
- ●Volcel'Voluntary celibate' — celibate by choice, as the counter-term to incel, said sincerely b…
- ●Wait, WhatThe reply to a sentence that had a surprise in the middle — 'wait, what?' — and the recor…
- ●WashedPast it, finished, no longer good — washed — as the verdict on an athlete, a gamer, or a …
- ☠Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)A song that functions as an instruction manual: it names each move as it arrives, so the …
- ●WeRateDogsMatt Nelson's Twitter account, started in November 2015, that posts a photograph of a dog…
- ◐Webinar FunnelA 'free training' that is in fact a ninety-minute sales pitch ending in a countdown timer…
- ●Wellness InfluencerA creator whose product is a life that looks healthy — smoothie bowls, supplements, retre…
- ●What I Eat in a DayThe diary-of-meals video: a creator films every plate from oat bowl to bedtime snack, nar…
- ●Who Hurt You'Who hurt you?' — the reply to a take so bitter it must have a backstory, as the internet…
- ◐Wine MomA mother whose posts are about needing wine — 'mommy's juice', 'it's five o'clock somewhe…
- ●Yer Da'Your dad' — as the subject of a Scottish insult about a hypothetical father who sells Av…
- ●YouTube KidsYouTube's separate app for children, launched in February 2015 with a promise of curated,…
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- ●AU'Alternate universe' — a fanfiction in which the characters are the same and everything e…
- ●Allow It'Stop', 'leave it', 'don't' — 'allow it' — as the London phrase that means the opposite o…
- ●Alt AccountA second account, for a second self — an alt — used for a different character, a differen…
- ●Alter'Old man', but really 'dude' or 'whoa' — the German interjection ('Alter!') that opens a …
- ●Animal JamA virtual world of animal avatars in a nature-themed land, made with National Geographic …
- ●BanterTeasing between friends, as a culture — 'banter', 'bantz' — which the 2010s British inter…
- ●BikesheddingArguing at length about something trivial because it is the only part everyone understand…
- ●CarryTo win a game for a team that did not deserve it — to carry — and 'carried' as the state …
- ●Clash of ClansA village-building game in which players train troops, raid other villages and wait for t…
- ●ClutchWinning when it counts, against the odds — a clutch play, to clutch it — from sport into …
- ☠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 Laughing Emoji😂 — the face with tears of joy, the most-used emoji on Earth for a decade and the Oxford…
- ●Cuffing SeasonAutumn and winter, when single people seek a partner to be 'cuffed' to until spring — cuf…
- ●DTR'Define the relationship' — the conversation nobody wants to start, named as a thing to s…
- ▲Doritos and Mountain DewThe pairing of a tortilla chip and a green soft drink as the sacred foods of the ironic '…
- ●Dr. GoogleThe habit of searching one's symptoms and arriving, in three clicks, at a diagnosis and a…
- ●ELI5'Explain like I'm five' — a request for a simple answer, from a subreddit that became a g…
- ●ETA?'When?' — as a question about a person, a delivery, or a promised feature, from the aviat…
- ◐Edit: Thanks for the GoldThe edit appended to a comment that received a paid award — 'edit: thanks for the gold, k…
- ◐FIFA RageThe genre of videos, streams and later TikToks of people losing control after a late goal…
- ●FOH'F*** outta here' — dismissal, from AAVE into general use by 2015 as the reply to anythin…
- ●Fantasy FootballThe game of drafting real NFL players onto an imaginary roster and scoring their weekly s…
- ●FeedingDying repeatedly to the enemy, making them stronger — feeding — as the MOBA's worst crime…
- ●Five Nights at Freddy'sA night guard watches security cameras in a pizzeria while animatronic animals walk towar…
- ◐Flat DesignNo shadows, no gradients, no textures, no idea which bit was a button. Fading now that ev…
- ☠Fleek'On fleek' — perfect, flawless — coined by a teenager on Vine in June 2014 about her eyeb…
- ◐Game of War: Fire AgeA strategy game of empires and alliances whose real product was its advertising: a campai…
- ●GassedExcited, or overexcited about oneself — 'gassed' — as the London word for both, and 'gass…
- ▲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…
- ●Grand (Irish)'Fine', 'okay', 'adequate' — 'grand' — as the Irish word that means the opposite of grand…
- ●Haha vs LolThe hierarchy of typed laughter — 'haha' is warm, 'ha' is cold, 'hahaha' is sincere, 'lol…
- ●HaulShowing the camera what you bought — the bags, the try-on, the price — as a YouTube genre…
- ◐Hey, Vsauce, Michael HereThe opening line of every Vsauce video — 'Hey, Vsauce, Michael here' — delivered by Micha…
- ●Hot TakeAn opinion published faster than it was thought. Coined as an insult and adopted as a job…
- ☠I Am BreadA slice of bread crawls across a kitchen trying to become toast, controlled one corner at…
- ●ICYMI'In case you missed it' — the repost's excuse, from news accounts in 2011 into every bran…
- ●IMY'I miss you' — the three-letter confession, from late-2000s texting, which manages to say…
- ●IRL'In real life' — the world outside the screen, named as if it were the other place. From …
- ▲Illuminati ConfirmedThe caption at the end of a joke conspiracy video — a triangle, a green-tinted image, the…
- ◐Instructions Unclear'Instructions unclear, got my hand stuck in the toaster' — the comment under any tutorial…
- ●JFC'Jesus f***ing Christ' — exasperation with a blasphemy, compressed, and the record's entr…
- ●JugaadAn ingenious, improvised, slightly alarming fix — the Hindi word for making it work with …
- ●Jungle (MOBA)The forest between the lanes of a MOBA map, and the role of the player who farms its mons…
- ◐Kerbal Space ProgramSmall green astronauts called Kerbals are strapped into rockets built from parts and laun…
- ●LMAO'Laughing my ass off' — the laugh above LOL and below ROFL, from the 1990s to now, and th…
- ●LMK'Let me know' — the acronym of the mild request, born in mid-2000s texting and now the wa…
- ●Lewis's LawThe comments on any article about feminism justify feminism. Filed as a law because it ha…
- ●Like, Comment, SubscribeThe three-part request at the end of every YouTube video — 'like, comment and subscribe' …
- ●LongTedious, too much effort — 'that's long' — as the London word for anything that takes tim…
- ▲MLG AirhornThe blaring stadium airhorn sample dropped into a video at the moment of a headshot, a jo…
- ●Mate'Friend', or 'person I am about to disagree with' — 'mate' — as the British word that is …
- ☠Minecraft Pocket EditionThe phone version of Minecraft, released in 2011 with a tiny world, no survival mode and …
- ◐Monument ValleyA princess called Ida walks through Escher buildings that rearrange when you turn them, i…
- ●Nae Bother'No problem' — 'nae bother' — as the Scottish acknowledgement that the internet adopted a…
- ●Navy Seal CopypastaA paragraph of escalating military threats — 'I have over 300 confirmed kills', 'you are …
- ☠Netflix and ChillAn invitation with a euphemism inside it. Explained in every newspaper's lifestyle sectio…
- ●Nice Guy™A man who describes himself as nice and behaves otherwise when refused — the Nice Guy, wi…
- ●NutmegPutting the ball through an opponent's legs. The term goes back at least to the 1970s in …
- ●OG'Original gangster' — an original, a founder, someone who was there first — from a 1991 r…
- ●OOTD'Outfit of the day' — the daily mirror photo, from fashion blogs in 2010 into a TikTok ge…
- ☠On FleekPerfectly done, of eyebrows. Coined in a six-second video, used by IHOP within a year, an…
- ●PC Master RaceThe PC gamer's self-mocking (then unironic, then self-mocking again) title, coined as a j…
- ●PSA'PSA:' — the prefix for an announcement the poster believes is important: a warning, a co…
- ●Pause'Pause' — said after an accidental double entendre to flag it, as the successor to a wors…
- ●PentakillKilling all five enemy players in quick succession in League of Legends, announced by the…
- ↺Pepe the FrogA comic frog that was community property until it wasn't. The clearest case study of a me…
- ●Pivot (Startup)Changing a company's entire purpose while claiming continuity — the pivot — from a 2009 s…
- ●Platinum TrophyThe top trophy on PlayStation, awarded for earning every other trophy in a game, introduc…
- ●Pls'Please', with the vowels removed — 'pls', 'plz' — as the request that is also slightly d…
- ●RNG'Random number generator' — luck, in a game, as a thing to blame: 'RNG hates me', 'RNGesu…
- ●Reply AllThe button that sends your reply to everyone, pressed by mistake — reply all — as the sou…
- ●Rubber Duck DebuggingExplaining your code, line by line, to a rubber duck until you find the mistake yourself …
- ◐SJW'Social justice warrior' — coined as praise, used as an insult for anyone who cared about…
- ●Salty (Slang)Bitter, annoyed, a sore loser — 'salty' — from 1930s American slang via AAVE into gaming …
- ☠Sample TextThe words 'Sample Text' in a default font, floating across an MLG parody video where a ca…
- ◐SanicA badly drawn Sonic the Hedgehog — a blue scribble with one eye and the caption 'Sanic' —…
- ●Self-InsertA character who is the author, put into the story — the self-insert — as fanfiction's old…
- ●ShoutoutA public mention — 'shoutout to my mum' — from radio into the creator economy, where it i…
- ◐Shovel KnightA blue knight with a shovel fights eight other knights in a game that looks like it is fr…
- ●Shower ThoughtA small, odd realisation — 'your stomach thinks all potatoes are mashed' — from a subredd…
- ◐Sitya LossThe Ugandan singer Eddy Kenzo's song, carried worldwide by the video's dancers: four boys…
- ●SmurfAn experienced player on a new account, beating beginners — a smurf — named after two War…
- ●Source?'Source?' — the one-word demand for evidence, which is sometimes a request and usually an…
- ●Straya'Straya' — Australia, as its citizens say it and as the internet spells it when captionin…
- ●Sugoi'Amazing', 'wow' — the Japanese exclamation that every subtitle left untranslated and eve…
- ●SwattingCalling armed police to a stranger's address as a prank. The only entry here with a mansl…
- ●TAS'Tool-assisted speedrun' — a run made with save states and frame advance, perfect and imp…
- ●TBF'To be fair' — the acronym that softens a disagreement before it lands, born on late-2000…
- ●TBH'To be honest' — the prefix for opinions, and, in 2015, a whole teenage Instagram genre: …
- ●TW'Trigger warning' — the content label, from 2000s feminist blogging and LiveJournal, that…
- ●Technical DebtThe cost of doing something quickly now that must be repaid slowly later — technical debt…
- ●ThirstyToo eager, especially for attention or affection — thirsty — as the 2010s word for the de…
- ◐Thought LeaderA person paid to have opinions in public, self-described. Fading because nobody now admit…
- ●Tilde~ — the tilde at the end of a word, for a sing-song tone: 'hello~', 'thanks~'. From anime…
- ●TimepassSomething done merely to pass the time — a film, a scroll, a conversation — as the Indian…
- ●Touch Base'Let's touch base' — to have a brief conversation — as the meeting request that never say…
- ◐Trivia CrackA wheel is spun, a category comes up, and a quiz question is answered against a friend, w…
- ☠Uber for XAn app that summoned a stranger to do a thing. Uber for laundry, for dog walking, for par…
- ●Underrated Comment'Underrated comment' — the reply to a comment that deserves more likes, posted by someone…
- ◐UnturnedA free zombie survival game with blocky characters, made by a sixteen-year-old in Canada …
- ☠VineSix seconds, looping. Still supplying the shared reference library of an entire generatio…
- ●WastemanA useless person — 'wasteman' — as the London slang's verdict on a man who contributes no…
- ▲When Mama Isn't HomeA father on trombone and his son on an oven door, playing along to Freaks. Filmed in Octo…
- ●Wi-Fi PasswordThe string of letters on the bottom of a router, and the first thing a guest asks for in …
- ☠WunderlistThe Berlin to-do app, launched in November 2010, that was clean, fast and beloved, and th…
- ●kkkk (Brazilian Laugh)'kkkkk' — the Brazilian laugh, from the sound 'ca-ca-ca', which alarms English speakers w…
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- ☠#8days8videosA release strategy: eight music videos over eight consecutive days, each premiered on a d…
- ☠A Dark RoomA text page with a button that says 'stoke fire', then a stranger, then wood, then a vill…
- ↺Assassin's Creed UnityUbisoft's Paris game, released in November 2014 with a bug that removed characters' faces…
- ☠Batman: Arkham KnightRocksteady's 2015 finale, a well-reviewed Batman game on consoles and a PC port so broken…
- ↺Blue Screen of DeathThe full-screen blue crash of Windows — white text, a hexadecimal code, everything unsave…
- ▲Butt FumbleMark Sanchez running into his own lineman's backside, fumbling, and watching New England …
- ☠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…
- ☠CityVilleA Facebook city-builder from the makers of FarmVille, in which players built shops, staff…
- ☠Close EnoughThe rage face with the raised eyebrow and the lopsided mouth, captioned 'Close enough', u…
- ☠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' …
- ☠Digital NativeA person who grew up online and therefore understood it. Killed when the natives turned o…
- ↺DogeA Shiba Inu annotated in coloured Comic Sans. Outlived its own irony, then outlived its o…
- ☠Don't Drop That Thun ThunA track that reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the strength of a six-second V…
- ☠Feel Like a SirThe rage face in a top hat and monocle, captioned 'Feel like a sir', used from 2011 whene…
- ▲Firework (Katy Perry and Jodi DiPiazza)A duet performed on the television special Night of Too Many Stars between Katy Perry and…
- ☠FriendsterThe first social network to be popular, and the first to be too slow to stay that way. Tu…
- ☠Google GlassA camera on your face that made everyone around you into an unwilling participant. Died s…
- ▲Google+ CommentsThe November 2013 change that required a Google+ account to comment on YouTube, delivered…
- ↺GyaruTan, bleached hair, dramatic lashes, platform boots, and a deliberate rejection of Japane…
- ↺Halo: The Master Chief CollectionMicrosoft's 2014 compilation of four Halo games, whose online matchmaking failed at launc…
- ☠Health GothBlack sportswear worn as an aesthetic rather than for sport. Died of a trend piece, like …
- ☠HipsterA person who liked things before you did, identified by a beard and denied by everyone. D…
- ☠I Can't EvenAn unfinished sentence expressing being overwhelmed. Finished for everyone by a Times op-…
- ☠Left SharkA backing dancer in a shark costume who had forgotten the choreography. Katy Perry's lawy…
- ☠Llama DramaTwo llamas loose in a retirement community, chased live on television. The biggest thing …
- ▲Metal Gear SolidA stealth game in which a boss reads your memory card, comments on your other games and m…
- ☠Mother of GodThe rage-comic image of Brian Cox's police captain from Super Troopers lowering his sungl…
- ☠NormcoreDressing deliberately unremarkably. Began as a joke inside a consultancy report and was t…
- ☠Not BadThe rage face with the puffed lower lip and nodding approval, traced from a May 2011 phot…
- ☠Pizza RatA rat dragging a slice down the subway steps. New York recognised itself, then made a cos…
- ☠PlayStation HomeA 3D lobby where avatars queued to bowl. Shut in 2015 with almost no one noticing, which …
- ▲Pop Culture (Madeon)A seventeen-year-old French producer, one Novation launchpad, thirty-nine songs mashed li…
- ▲Red Solo CupA country drinking song addressed to a disposable plastic cup, which gathered four millio…
- ☠Ridiculously Photogenic GuyA runner photographed mid-race in April 2012 looking like a catalogue model while everyon…
- ▲Robot Unicorn AttackA robot unicorn runs right across a purple sky, dashes through stars, and dies against a …
- ▲ScreensaverThe animation that took over an idle monitor to stop images burning into the phosphor — f…
- ☠SecretAnonymous confessions from people in your contacts. Raised $35 million, ran for sixteen m…
- ☠Soft GrungeNirvana shirts with flower crowns. The Tumblr aesthetic, before Tumblr had many; killed b…
- ☠Sudden Clarity ClarenceA party photograph of a young man frozen mid-realisation, captioned from January 2012 wit…
- ☠The DressBlue and black, or white and gold. The entire internet arguing about one photograph for o…
- ☠The Order: 1886Sony's Victorian werewolf game, released in February 2015 with black bars across the scre…
- ☠Thomas Was AloneColoured rectangles jump through platform levels while a narrator gives each of them a pe…
- ☠True StoryThe image of Neil Patrick Harris nodding in a suit, captioned 'True story', that closed r…
- ☠Watch Out, We Got a Badass Over HereA line drawing of Neil deGrasse Tyson with both hands raised, traced from a 2011 intervie…
- ☠X All the YThe stick-figure with the broom and the manic grin from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Hal…
- ☠Yao Ming FaceThe line drawing of basketball player Yao Ming mid-laugh, traced from a 2009 press confer…
From the blog, 2015
Data Leak [VIDEO]10 Dec 2015
"Micropenis" comment under NBC News's Facebook Post10 Dec 2015
That's about right [COMIC]10 Dec 2015
Fluctuation is one thing, but frankly going from 80tb/s to 130KB/s is ridiculous. - Steam8 Dec 2015
It was worth a shot. [PIC]7 Dec 2015
HACKERMAN [PIC]6 Dec 2015
We challenged this man... [PIC]5 Dec 2015
Dude, what is your street name? [PIC]4 Dec 2015
Albanian Virus [PIC]4 Dec 2015
Who's your favourite Star Wars characters?4 Dec 2015
Jennifer Bang’s NEW Video Might Be The Hottest Thing You’ve Ever Seen4 Dec 2015
Enough internet for today4 Dec 2015