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- ◐5-Minute CraftsThe channel of fast, wordless 'life hacks' — a hot glue gun, a plastic bottle, a result t…
- ●AI SafetyThe field of making AI systems not cause harm, from a chatbot's manners to the end of the…
- ●Alexandr WangThe founder of Scale AI, who left MIT at 19 to start a data-labelling company in 2016, wa…
- ●Algorithmic BiasSystems that reproduce the prejudices in their data: a sentencing tool that scored Black …
- ●Alignment ChartA three-by-three grid — lawful to chaotic, good to evil — with anything sorted into it: p…
- ☠AlphaGoThe DeepMind program that beat Lee Sedol four games to one in March 2016, watched by a re…
- ◐Amazon FBA GuruThe man in a rented Lamborghini who will teach you to source goods from overseas and sell…
- ●Apu Apustaja'Help Helper' — a badly drawn, innocent, worried Pepe from a Finnish board, who says thin…
- ◐Arthur FistA cartoon aardvark's clenched fist, from a 1999 episode, as the summer-2016 image for sup…
- ☠Arthur's FistA cartoon aardvark's clenched hand, used for every minor injustice. PBS asked people to k…
- ●BYF'Before you follow' — the companion to DNI: a notice, usually linked, telling would-be fo…
- ☠Baby SharkA campfire song about a family of sharks, rebuilt in neon. The most-viewed video on YouTu…
- ●Bacon HairThe default Roblox avatar whose free hair item resembles rashers of bacon, and by extensi…
- ●Bad FaithArguing without meaning it — in bad faith — as the internet's word for the opponent who i…
- ◐Bad and BoujeeA Migos single that became a meme almost entirely on the strength of its first two words.…
- ●BaddieContoured, laid edges, long nails, a matching set, a lash and a ring light — the baddie —…
- ●Banter EraThe name football Twitter gives, with hindsight, to a club's years of comic mediocrity — …
- ☠Bee Movie ScriptThe entire screenplay of an animated film about bees, posted in full, then sped up, then …
- ●BenchingKeeping someone on the bench — interested but not played — while you see who else is avai…
- ●Big If True'Big if true' — the reply to a claim that would matter if it were real, from political Tw…
- ●BitsTwitch's tipping currency, bought with real money and given in chat with an animated chee…
- ●BlackpillThe pill beyond the red one: the belief that nothing can be done, that looks are fate, th…
- ☠Bottle FlipFlipping a half-full water bottle to land upright. Banned by schools worldwide within mon…
- ●BoujeeFancy, luxurious, a bit above oneself — 'boujee' — from 'bourgeois' via AAVE and a 2016 r…
- ●BrainletA wojak with a tiny head — the brainlet — for anyone who has said something stupid, and t…
- ●BreadcrumbingSending just enough attention — a like, a 'hey', a story reply — to keep someone interest…
- ☠Cash Me OussideA teenager challenging a studio audience to a fight, in an accent that spawned a catchphr…
- ☠Chewbacca MomA woman in her car laughing helplessly inside a Wookiee mask. Facebook Live's most-viewed…
- ◐Clap EmphasisPutting 👏 between 👏 every 👏 word 👏 for emphasis, as the 2016–17 way of making a point…
- ●Clash RoyaleA real-time card game in which two players drop troops onto a small arena and try to dest…
- ●Clip It'Clip it' — the chat's instruction when something worth keeping has happened on stream, a…
- ●Cognitive OffloadingLetting a tool do the thinking so you do not have to: the calculator, the satnav, the sea…
- ●Community PostA text, poll or image post on a YouTube channel's Community tab — introduced in 2016 for …
- ●Confused Math LadyA woman frowning with equations floating around her head — a Brazilian soap actress and s…
- ◐Cringe CultureThe practice of collecting and mocking embarrassing behaviour online — the compilations, …
- ●Cursed ImageA photograph that is wrong in a way you cannot name — a bathtub full of eggs, a man in a …
- ●DNI'Do not interact' — the bio notice, from mid-2010s Tumblr and Twitter, listing the catego…
- ☠Damn DanielA boy in white Vans praised by his friend in a rising voice. Ellen gave him a lifetime su…
- ◐Dat $tickAn Indonesian teenager in a pink polo shirt and a bum bag, rapping in a voice much lower …
- ☠Dat BoiA frog on a unicycle, here he come. Meant nothing, spread for about three months on the s…
- ●Dead by DaylightThe asymmetric horror game of June 2016 in which four survivors repair generators while o…
- ●Deceased'I'm deceased' — laughing so hard you have died, in the formal register — as the successo…
- ●DemonetizedStripped of advertising revenue by YouTube's automated systems — demonetized — as the wor…
- ☠DoggoA dog, spoken of fondly in a dialect of puppers, boops and heckin. Appeared in a Purina c…
- ☠Doin Me a Frighten'Doing me a frighten' — a scared dog's caption, in the dialect where verbs are nouns and …
- ●DongleAny small adapter you did not want to need — the word, an older bit of computing slang fo…
- ●DuetA split-screen video beside someone else's — singing along, reacting, adding a harmony — …
- ◐Enter the GungeonA bullet-hell dungeon crawler in which the enemies are bullets with faces, the guns are j…
- ◐Evil KermitKermit talking to his hooded double, captioned 'me: / inner me:' — the good impulse and t…
- ●Facebook MomA mother who posts Minion memes, tags her children in things, comments 'so proud' on stra…
- ◐Fake NewsFabricated news stories built for shares — fake news — a phrase that briefly meant someth…
- ◐Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1A Kanye West track from The Life of Pablo that opens with Metro Boomin's producer tag, 'I…
- ●Fell OffTo have declined from a peak — 'he fell off' — as the internet's verdict on anyone who is…
- ◐FinstaA fake Instagram — the private second account for the real self, with the bad photos and …
- ◐FirewatchA man called Henry takes a summer job in a Wyoming fire lookout in 1989 and talks to a wo…
- ●Gentle ParentingThe parenting approach based on empathy, boundaries and narrating feelings rather than pu…
- ◐Gokuraku JodoA J-pop single released on 28 July 2016 with a dance video, which crossed to the Chinese …
- ●Golf With Your FriendsA crazy-golf game for up to twelve players with no turns, so that every ball flies at onc…
- ◐Google AssistantGoogle's voice assistant, launched in 2016 as the one that actually knew things because i…
- ☠GraphcoreThe Bristol chip company founded in 2016 to build the IPU, a processor designed for machi…
- ●GrifterSomeone whose online persona is a con — a grifter — applied since 2016 to pundits, coache…
- ●GroqThe chip company founded in 2016 by a designer of Google's TPU that built an inference ch…
- ☠HarambeA gorilla shot by a zoo, mourned first sincerely and then in a way that was not. The firs…
- ◐Heckin'Very', in DoggoLingo — 'a heckin good boy' — as the intensifier for animal captions, and…
- ●Hit the Bell'Hit the bell' — the request to press the notification-bell icon added to the subscribe b…
- ☠HousepartyGroup video calls for teenagers that briefly became group video calls for everyone. Laste…
- ●Hugging FaceThe company named after an emoji that began in 2016 as a chatbot app for teenagers, relea…
- ●Human: Fall FlatA soft white figure called Bob with a flat head and arms that grab anything wobbles throu…
- ☠HyggeCandles, wool socks, a cinnamon bun and a Danish word for cosiness that the British publi…
- ●IRL StreamStreaming from outside — a street, a shop, another country — with a phone and a backpack …
- ◐If Young Metro Don't Trust YouA producer tag — the spoken credit a beatmaker drops at the start of a track — that escap…
- ●Is This a JoJo ReferenceThe reflex of a fandom that sees its show everywhere — a pose, a name, a colour — asked s…
- ◐It's Wednesday My DudesA man in a frog mask screaming 'it's Wednesday, my dudes' — and the frog itself, the Budg…
- ●JapandiJapanese minimalism plus Scandinavian hygge — Japandi — as the interior style that domina…
- ●Jensen's Leather JacketThe black leather jacket Jensen Huang wears to every keynote, every interview and, by pub…
- ☠Juju on That BeatA song and dance made by two Detroit teenagers, spread through the #TZAnthem Challenge as…
- ☠Ken BoneA man in a red jumper asking a sensible question about energy. Beloved for four days, unt…
- ◐Lemonade (Beyoncé)Beyoncé's sixth solo album, released without warning on 23 April 2016 as an hour-long fil…
- ●Link in BioThe instruction that ended every post for a decade because the platform would not allow a…
- ●LinktreeThe one-page list of links that Instagram's single-link bio made necessary, built by a Me…
- ●LocalsPeople who are not in the fandom, encountered when a post escapes — 'the locals found it'…
- ●Lowercase AestheticTyping entirely in lowercase, including 'i', as a tone: casual, soft, a little sad. The r…
- ●Ludo KingA phone version of the board game Ludo, with online rooms, voice chat and a small studio …
- ☠Mannequin ChallengeEveryone freezing in place while a camera moves through the room. Performed by a presiden…
- ●Masayoshi SonThe SoftBank founder who ran the largest venture fund in history, bought the chip designe…
- ◐MeepCityA Roblox social game of houses, fishing and a round pet called a Meep, and the first game…
- ●MicroinfluencerAn influencer with a small following — a few thousand — sold to brands as more authentic,…
- ☠MiitomoNintendo's first smartphone app, a social toy in which the player's Mii answered question…
- ●Milkshake DuckA thing the internet adores for five minutes before discovering it is unforgivable. Coine…
- ☠Millennial PinkA dusty salmon somewhere between Rose Quartz and a Glossier bag — millennial pink — as th…
- ●Mobile Legends: Bang BangA five-a-side arena game in the League of Legends mould, built for phones and for South-E…
- ●Mood'Mood' — a caption meaning 'this is how I feel', on a picture of a raccoon in a bin — and…
- ↺No Man's SkyHello Games' procedurally generated space game, promised on chat shows by its lead develo…
- ●NormieA normal person, as an insult from people who spend too long online — someone who uses me…
- ●NotionThe everything-document app, released in 2016 and rebuilt in 2018, in which pages contain…
- ●OMEGALULA Twitch emote — a streamer's laughing face stretched into a circle — spammed in chat whe…
- ●On GodI swear — an oath of sincerity, from hip-hop into general use, and one of the most-used p…
- ●One Bite Pizza ReviewDave Portnoy's format — stand outside a pizzeria, take one bite, give a score to one deci…
- ●OnlyFansThe subscription site, launched in London in November 2016, that became during the 2020 l…
- ●OvercookedUp to four cooks in a kitchen that is on a moving lorry, or on ice, or splitting in two, …
- ☠OverwatchBlizzard's hero shooter, released in May 2016 after a beta that had already made its char…
- ▲PPAPA Japanese earworm running about forty-five seconds, in which a man in a leopard-print ou…
- ◐ParasocialA one-sided relationship with someone who does not know you exist. Coined about televisio…
- ●PepeHandsA crying Pepe holding its hands up in despair, for the moment a streamer loses, a chat's …
- ●Per My Last Email'Per my last email' — the phrase that means 'I already told you this and I am furious', i…
- ●Persona 5Atlus's stylish high-school heist RPG, released in Japan in September 2016 and worldwide …
- ●Pick Me GirlA woman who performs not being like other girls for the benefit of men in the room — the …
- ●Ping (Discord)A notification from being @mentioned — a ping — and 'don't ping me' as the boundary, and …
- ●Pinned CommentThe comment a creator fixes to the top — usually their own, sometimes a fan's, occasional…
- ☠Pokemon Go SongA cash-in song about the augmented-reality game, released at the height of its summer, wh…
- ●PokéStopA real-world landmark — a mural, a church, a plaque nobody had read — turned into a spinn…
- ◐Pokémon GoWalking around outside to catch cartoons. One summer in which every park was full and eve…
- ☠Pony IslandA pastel arcade game about a running pony that turns out to be a corrupted machine built …
- ◐PupperA small dog, in DoggoLingo — the dialect in which a dog is a doggo, a small one a pupper,…
- ◐Quote Tweet DunkReposting someone's post with a comment designed to humiliate it, to your own audience — …
- ●Rec RoomA social platform of user-built games and rooms with stick-limbed avatars, started in VR …
- ●RedboneA 2016 Childish Gambino single that became a meme in early 2017 through remixes fitting t…
- ●Reward HackingA system finding a way to score highly that its designers did not intend: the boat in a r…
- ●Ring CultureThe NBA argument that a player is only as good as their championship count — 'ringz', 'no…
- ◐RinstaA 'real' Instagram — the polished, public account a teenager keeps for grandparents, coll…
- ☠Rise and GrindWaking early to work, announced. Died in the spring of 2020 when the grind stopped and it…
- ●SIM SwapPersuading a phone company to move your number to the attacker's SIM, so that your two-fa…
- ◐Say It Louder for the People in the BackThe instruction to repeat a good point for those who missed it — 'say it louder for the p…
- ●Scale AIThe data-labelling company founded in 2016 that supplied the annotated data and, later, t…
- ●Self-CareLooking after oneself, as a practice with a hashtag — self-care — from a radical idea in …
- ●ShithouseryThe British term for the dark arts done with style. A player who wins a free kick by fall…
- ◐Slither.ioSnake, but with everybody else's snakes on the same board, and dying when your head touch…
- ◐SnatchedLooking extremely good, tightly — 'snatched' — from drag vocabulary into the beauty inter…
- ◐SnowflakeA person too fragile to hear disagreement — a snowflake — from a Fight Club line into the…
- ☠Sophia the RobotA silicone-faced humanoid with a transparent skull who told a CNBC interviewer in 2016 th…
- ●Stardew ValleyA farming game built by one person over four and a half years in Seattle because the Harv…
- ●StorytimeA video of a person telling a story to camera — 'STORYTIME: my roommate…' — as a YouTube …
- ●Sundar PichaiGoogle's chief executive, who called the company 'AI-first' in 2016, was reported to have…
- ▲SunspringA nine-minute science-fiction short whose script was written entirely by a recurrent neur…
- ◐Super Mario RunNintendo's first Mario game on a phone, an auto-runner in which the player only taps to j…
- ●Super Max!A chant recorded as a song by a Dutch fan group in 2016 and carried by the orange grandst…
- ●TPUGoogle's in-house AI chip, used internally from 2015 and announced in May 2016, which for…
- ▲TayMicrosoft's Twitter chatbot, launched on 23 March 2016 to talk like a teenager and taken …
- ◐Tenda BiruAn older Indonesian song by the actress and singer Desy Ratnasari that went viral again i…
- ●The AlgorithmWhatever decides what you see, referred to in the singular and with resentment. The first…
- ◐Titanfall 2Respawn's 2016 shooter, released by EA in the seven days between Battlefield 1 and a Call…
- ▲To Be ContinuedA short clip that freezes at the worst possible moment while Roundabout by Yes comes in a…
- ◐Totally Accurate Battle SimulatorWobbly ragdoll armies from different centuries collapse into each other on a green field,…
- ◐Ultimate Chicken HorseFour animals take turns placing a trap on a platform level, then all of them have to run …
- ●VTuberA streamer represented by an animated avatar — the body is a rig, the voice is real — fro…
- ●Void CatA black cat, especially in a photo where only the eyes are visible — the void — and the r…
- ●WBK'We been knew' — the stan-Twitter acronym for 'this is not news', deployed under any anno…
- ☠We Are Number OneA song from a children's show, remixed thousands of times to fund the actor's cancer trea…
- ●Who's Here AfterThe comment that explains a sudden spike in views — 'who's here after the trailer', 'who'…
- ●Wholesome MemeA meme format used for kindness instead of a joke at someone's expense — the wholesome me…
- ◐Wholesome MemesMemes that are kind on purpose — the format used to be nice instead of cruel — which emer…
- ●monkaSA sweating, wide-eyed Pepe, spammed in chat when something tense is happening — a boss fi…
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- ●/sThe sarcasm tag — '/s' at the end of a sentence — from a joke HTML closing tag into the i…
- ●100 Emoji💯 — 'keep it a hundred', total agreement, full marks — as the emoji that means 'exactly'…
- ☠AdultingDoing grown-up tasks, announced as an achievement. Made into a class you could pay for, w…
- ◐Adulting FailThe failure to do a grown-up task — forgetting the bins, burning rice — posted as an 'adu…
- ●AegyoA performed cuteness — pouting, a squeaky voice, a small hand-heart — that Korean idols d…
- ☠Art HoeYellow, a Fjällräven backpack, a Van Gogh print, an oversized shirt with a paint stain an…
- ●BeyhiveBeyoncé's fandom — the Beyhive, named around 2011, with bee emoji as its signature — the …
- ●BlockedCut off entirely — 'blocked and reported', 'blocked so fast' — as the internet's ultimate…
- ☠Blue CheckA badge meaning the account was who it said it was. Sold for $8 a month from November 202…
- ●BrigadingArriving in a group to vote something down. Prohibited everywhere and organised on the sa…
- ●Caught FeelingsTo develop feelings for someone you had agreed not to — 'caught feelings' — as if they we…
- ◐ChumboxThe grid of grotesque sponsored links at the bottom of news articles — 'Doctors Hate Her'…
- ●CivilizationTake a tribe from 4000 BC to the space race, one turn at a time, for longer than intended…
- ☠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…
- ◐Crying JordanA basketball legend's tearful face pasted onto every loser in sport. Jordan himself is re…
- ◐Cyka BlyatThe Russian curse that every Western gamer learned from voice chat in Counter-Strike and …
- ☠DabbingSneezing into your elbow, but a dance. Performed by the Speaker of the House of Represent…
- ◐Darude - SandstormThe standing answer to the comment 'what's the song?', regardless of what the song is: Da…
- ◐Digital DetoxNot looking at your phone, as a retreat you could book. Fading because nobody completes o…
- ●Don't StarveA gentleman scientist called Wilson is dropped into a pen-and-ink wilderness by a demon a…
- ◐Drake Hotline BlingDrake recoiling, then Drake approving. The two-panel preference format, so stable it no l…
- ●Eco RoundA round in Counter-Strike (and later Valorant) in which a team buys nothing, or almost no…
- ●ExtraOver the top, dramatic, too much — 'she's so extra' — as the 2015–17 word for a person wh…
- ◐FamFriends addressed as family. Fading in public use, though still the standard vocative of …
- ●Filter BubbleOnly being shown what you already agree with. A warning that became an architecture, and …
- ●GG EZ'Good game, easy' — the post-match taunt that is the worst thing you can type after a win…
- ●GN'Good night' — the two-letter sign-off, born on MSN and the flip phone, that ends the day…
- ●GOAT'Greatest of all time' — from a boxer's company name to a rapper's album to the argument …
- ●Ganbatte'Do your best', 'hang in there' — the Japanese encouragement that fandom lifted from spor…
- ●Gish GallopMaking more bad arguments than can be answered in the time. Coined about a creationist an…
- ☠Google HangoutsGoogle's chat and video-call app, launched at I/O in May 2013 to replace Google Talk, Goo…
- ●GrimdarkFiction where everything is bleak, everyone is morally compromised and hope is a rookie m…
- ◐GrowtopiaA 2D sandbox of worlds built from blocks in which players trade items and run shops, casi…
- ●HBD'Happy birthday' — the acronym of the Facebook wall, where from about 2008 the notificati…
- ◐HearthstoneA Warcraft-themed digital card game, made by a small Blizzard team, that became the bigge…
- ●Heel TurnA wrestling good guy becoming a bad guy — the heel turn — the oldest trick in the busines…
- ●Hide the Pain HaroldA stock-photo man smiling through something. The model, a Hungarian electrical engineer, …
- ●HusbandoThe male counterpart of 'waifu': a fictional character (anime, game, occasionally a carto…
- ●Hwaiting'Fighting!' — the Korean-English cheer, spelled 'hwaiting' or 'fighting', meaning 'you ca…
- ●IDEK'I don't even know' — the acronym of exhausted confusion, one step past 'idk', which appe…
- ●Incognito ModeChrome's private-browsing window, launched in December 2008 with a little spy in a hat, w…
- ●Instagram (2010)The photo-sharing app Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released on 6 October 2010: a square…
- ◐Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel BeamsThe line from 9/11 conspiracy theories — that jet fuel burns too cool to melt steel — quo…
- ◐KappaA greyscale man's face meaning sarcasm. Typed a million times a day at its peak; now the …
- ●KayfabeWrestling's word for the pretence that the show is real — kayfabe — old carnival slang th…
- ◐Keep Talking and Nobody ExplodesOne person sees a bomb and the others have a printed manual, and nobody can see both. Bui…
- ◐Kek'Lol', as it appeared to the other faction in World of Warcraft, adopted by 4chan as its …
- ◐KikThe username-only messenger from Waterloo, Ontario, launched in October 2010, that reache…
- ◐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,…
- ●Legend'Legend' — a person who did something slightly above the ordinary: got the round in, repl…
- ☠LitExciting, of a party. Said by a Prime Minister's spokesperson about a manifesto launch, w…
- ☠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…
- ●Model Off DutyThe look of a model between shows — jeans, white tee, oversized blazer, sunglasses, coffe…
- ●Moist (British)Weak, pathetic, soft — 'moist' — as the London slang insult that turned the internet's mo…
- ●Ninja DefuseDefusing the bomb in Counter-Strike while enemy players are still alive and nearby but no…
- ●Peach and Eggplant🍑🍆 — the two fruits that the internet made into anatomy, so thoroughly that Instagram b…
- ●PengAttractive, excellent — 'peng' — from London youth slang into the national vocabulary via…
- ☠PeriscopeLive video from a phone, with hearts floating up the screen. Bought by Twitter before it …
- ◐Post-TruthDescribing a public sphere in which feeling outweighs fact — post-truth — coined by Steve…
- ●Praise the SunA knight raising his arms to the sun — 'praise the sun!' — from Dark Souls, as the gestur…
- ◐Preach'Preach!' — enthusiastic agreement, from the call-and-response of the Black church into t…
- ●Press F to Pay RespectsA game's instruction to press F at a funeral, which the internet found so absurd that 'F'…
- ●Problematic FaveA favourite you know you should not have — a problematic fave — as the confession that fa…
- ●RN'Right now' — the two letters that add urgency to anything: 'I need coffee rn', 'crying r…
- ↺Rare PepeA Pepe drawn in a style nobody had seen before, watermarked and traded as if it were a co…
- ●Read ReceiptsThe small notice that a message was seen — 'Read 14:02' — and the argument about whether …
- ●Rocket LeaguePsyonix's football-with-cars game, released in July 2015 as a free PlayStation Plus title…
- ◐Rush BThe Counter-Strike call to run straight at bombsite B with no plan, typically attributed …
- ●SaltyBitter about losing. Older than the internet as sailors' slang and given a second, perman…
- ◐SavageBrutally honest, approvingly. Was a Megan Thee Stallion single, and the single outlived t…
- ●Screenshot NotificationThe alert Snapchat sends when someone screenshots your snap — the small betrayal receipt …
- ●SealioningPersistent, polite requests for evidence intended to exhaust rather than learn. Named for…
- ◐SelenatorsSelena Gomez's fandom — Selenators — from around 2010, at their peak during the 'Revival'…
- ●ShillA person paid to praise something as if they were not — a shill — from carnival slang int…
- ●ShitpostingPosting deliberately low-effort or derailing content, as a craft. Now the dominant regist…
- ●Slide Into DMsTo open a private message to someone you fancy, on a platform where you had been merely a…
- ●SnopesThe internet's original urban-legend reference desk, founded in 1994 to debunk email hoax…
- ●Sort by ControversialThe setting that shows the most-argued comments first — sort by controversial — as the ad…
- ●SpeedrunFinishing a game as fast as possible, timed and ruled. The one form of play that turned i…
- ●Starter Pack (Meme)A collage of objects that define a type — 'the guy who peaked in high school starter pack…
- ●SynthwaveAnalog synth arpeggios, gated drums, a purple sunset with a grid, a Testarossa and a palm…
- ●TIFU'Today I f***ed up' — the confession subreddit, and the prefix for any self-inflicted dis…
- ●Tech Support ScamA fraud in which 'Microsoft' phones to say your computer has a virus, or a pop-up screams…
- ●That's Just a Theory'But hey, that's just a theory — a game theory!' — the closing line of every Game Theory …
- ●This Is FineA dog in a bowler hat drinking coffee in a burning room. Drawn in 2013, adopted by 2016, …
- ●ThrowingLosing a game you were winning — a throw — from the sporting idea of throwing a match int…
- ●TiltedPlaying badly because you are angry — on tilt, tilted — from poker into every competitive…
- ●Treat Yourself'Treat yo' self' — the annual day of indulgence from a sitcom, which became the internet'…
- ◐TriggeredA clinical word for a trauma response, turned by 2016 into a mockery — 'triggered' as a j…
- ●TryhardA player who takes a casual game seriously — the tryhard — as an insult from people who a…
- ●Two Sentence HorrorA horror story in two sentences — the first sets up, the second turns — as a Reddit form …
- ●UnboxingOpening a box on camera, slowly, with commentary — from phones in 2006 to toys in 2016 (w…
- ●Unpopular Opinion'Unpopular opinion:' — the prefix for an opinion that is, in nearly every case, extremely…
- ●WYD'What you doing' — the opener of a text that wants something, usually at night, and the r…
- ●WallbangShooting an opponent through a wall, door or crate that the game's bullets can penetrate,…
- ●WeebA non-Japanese person too into Japanese culture — from a 4chan word filter in 2005 to a g…
- ●Wey'Dude', 'mate' — the Mexican vocative (also 'güey'), attached to the end of every sentenc…
- ●WhaleA player who spends thousands. The one per cent who pay for the ninety-nine, in a busines…
- ●WhiffTo miss an attack entirely — a swing that touches nothing — borrowed from baseball into f…
- ☠WokeAlert to injustice. Taken up, then taken over, then used exclusively by its opponents, wh…
- ●Woke (Original)'Stay woke' — aware, especially of racial injustice — from a 1938 blues recording via AAV…
- ●Work at a Pizza PlaceA Roblox game in which players take shifts as cashier, cook, delivery driver or boxer at …
- ◐Yaaas'Yes', extended, with a hand — 'yaaas' — from ballroom through a 2013 Vine to every brand…
- ●Yeah Nah'Yeah, nah' — the Australian and New Zealand 'no', which acknowledges the question before…
- ●YouTube Makeup TutorialA video in which someone applies makeup to a face, on camera, so that viewers can copy th…
- ◐Zlatan QuotesThe third-person aphorisms of Zlatan Ibrahimović — 'I don't do auditions', 'I came like a…
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- ☠#blessedGrateful, in a way that showed the boat. Used sarcastically by 2014 and then not at all.
- ▲=3 (Equals Three)Ray William Johnson's three-times-weekly viral-video review show, '=3', begun in 2009, wh…
- ☠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,…
- ☠BasicLiking mainstream things, as an accusation. Was a pumpkin spice latte for a year and died…
- ☠Brace YourselvesNed Stark in furs, captioned 'Brace yourselves / X is coming', from the 2011 first season…
- ☠But That's None of My BusinessA frog sipping tea after saying something pointed. Lipton got two years of free advertisi…
- ☠Chewbacca MomA woman in her car laughing helplessly inside a Wookiee mask. Facebook Live's most-viewed…
- ☠Confession BearA sun bear resting its chin on a log, used from 2012 to confess things — first small and …
- ☠Damn DanielA boy in white Vans praised by his friend in a rising voice. Ellen gave him a lifetime su…
- ☠Dat BoiA frog on a unicycle, here he come. Meant nothing, spread for about three months on the s…
- ☠Deal With ItA GIF in which pixel sunglasses drop onto any face, followed by the words 'Deal with it' …
- ▲Deep DreamThe 2015 image filter that turned any photograph into a field of dog faces, eyes and slug…
- ▲DeflategateThe controversy over under-inflated footballs in the Patriots' 45–7 win over Indianapolis…
- ☠Frog FractionsA browser game that begins as a maths lesson about a frog eating flies and becomes, withi…
- ☠Growth HackingMarketing, done by people who wanted to be engineers. Died when everyone realised it mean…
- ▲GwiyomiA K-pop single released on 18 February 2013 built on the Gwiyomi Player, a counting hand-…
- ☠HarambeA gorilla shot by a zoo, mourned first sincerely and then in a way that was not. The firs…
- ☠I Am BreadA slice of bread crawls across a kitchen trying to become toast, controlled one corner at…
- ☠Ken BoneA man in a red jumper asking a sensible question about energy. Beloved for four days, unt…
- ☠Kuro5hinCollaborative editing of stories before they were posted, and a community that took the q…
- ☠MLG MontageAirhorns, Doritos, Mountain Dew, a hit marker and Snoop Dogg. A parody of hype that becam…
- ☠Matrix MorpheusLaurence Fishburne in the sunglasses, captioned 'What if I told you' above a truth the re…
- ☠Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainThe 2015 Metal Gear, released as its director's name was scrubbed from the marketing and …
- ☠Netflix and ChillAn invitation with a euphemism inside it. Explained in every newspaper's lifestyle sectio…
- ☠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…
- ↺Pepe the FrogA comic frog that was community property until it wasn't. The clearest case study of a me…
- ▲Pics or It Didn't HappenA demand for proof, back when a picture was proof. Retired as a phrase when it became cle…
- ☠Shrek Is Love'Shrek is love, Shrek is life' — the refrain of a 2013 greentext story, later animated fo…
- ▲Street Fighter IVThe sequel that returned after nine years and revived the fighting game genre and its tou…
- ▲TayMicrosoft's Twitter chatbot, launched on 23 March 2016 to talk like a teenager and taken …
- ☠The Most Interesting Man in the WorldThe bearded gentleman from the Dos Equis beer adverts, captioned 'I don't always X / but …
- ↺VaporwaveSlowed-down mall music, Roman busts, and Japanese text. A genre about the feeling of a sh…
- ☠Wisdom of CrowdsGroups guessing better than experts. Held up for ox-weighing and collapsed for everything…
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What Immigrants Are Really Like - The New Europeans - National Geographic4 Oct 2016
19 Funniest Kids Sayings4 Oct 2016
It can wait [COMIC]2 Oct 2016
Best Video Game Soundtracks to help YOU get work2 Oct 2016
Funniest Whatsapp Messages - October 2016 [16 PICS]2 Oct 2016
Mythical Creatures that you may not heard of [ LARGE COLLECTION]2 Oct 2016
18 of the Best Cartoons on Toonhole1 Oct 2016
How to read the DC New 52 Events in the correct order [17 PICS]30 Sep 2016
All of Tina’s Moans from “Bob’s Burgers”30 Sep 2016
Shark stubbed its toe on a coral reef. [VIRAL PIC]29 Sep 2016
Deep Dark Fears Comics29 Sep 2016