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Born in 2017 147
- ◐1-800-273-8255A song titled after the phone number of the United States National Suicide Prevention Lif…
- ☠3AM ChallengeThe 2017 video format in which a creator does something ordinary — plays a game, orders a…
- ◐80s RemixA video genre in which a current pop song is rebuilt as though it had been released in th…
- ●AI CompanionA chatbot built to be a friend rather than a tool, with a name, a face and a memory of yo…
- ●AI TimelinesWhen you think it happens: the year an AI can do everything a person can, given as a date…
- ◐Adopt MeThe Roblox pet-raising game that launched in July 2017 as a role-play about adopting babi…
- ◐AdpocalypseThe 2017 crisis in which major advertisers pulled spending from YouTube after their ads a…
- ☠Alternative FactsA falsehood re-described as an alternative fact — the phrase Kellyanne Conway used on liv…
- ↺Animal Crossing: Pocket CampThe phone version of Animal Crossing, a campsite where the player collected furniture and…
- ●Anime Awards DiscourseThe annual argument about whether the right anime won — Frieren, Solo Leveling, the one y…
- ●Attention Is All You NeedThe Google paper of June 2017 that introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind ne…
- ●BetAgreed, deal, okay — 'bet' — the one-syllable yes of the late 2010s, from AAVE into unive…
- ◐Big EnoughAn EDM country track whose video puts Jimmy Barnes in the sky as a giant screaming cowboy…
- ◐BirdsiteTwitter, as called by people who had left it — 'the birdsite' — with the mild contempt of…
- ●Blinking White GuyA man blinking in disbelief, in a GIF that fits every situation. The subject uses his fam…
- ◐Boss BabeA woman running a business from her phone, in her own description, usually selling leggin…
- ●ChadThe confident, effortless man who wins — first as a bitter archetype on forums, then as a…
- ◐Chef's KissThe fingers-to-lips 'mwah' of an Italian chef, typed as '*chef's kiss*' from around 2017 …
- ●CloutOnline influence, as a currency. Chasing it is an accusation; having it is the point of e…
- ●Clout ChasingDoing anything for attention — a beef, a stunt, a fake apology — as the accusation 'clout…
- ●Cold TakeAn opinion that is obvious, late, or both — a cold take — as the opposite of the hot one,…
- ●Commentary YouTubeThe genre in which a creator, filmed against a wall or over footage, discusses another cr…
- ●CoreWeaveThe GPU cloud that began in 2017 as a cryptocurrency mining operation in New Jersey, kept…
- ☠Corporate MemphisFlat people with tiny heads and enormous purple limbs, doing teamwork. Every tech company…
- ●Course SellerAnyone whose actual business is the course about the business — the course seller — from …
- ☠CovfefeHalf a word, posted at midnight and left up for six hours. The press secretary claimed a …
- ●Crypto BroThe type: confident, tanned, a laser-eyed avatar, a thread about why you are wrong, a Mia…
- ◐CryptoKittiesCartoon cats that could be bred to produce new cartoon cats, launched in November 2017 an…
- ●CryptoPunksTen thousand 24-by-24 pixel characters — humans, zombies, apes and nine aliens — given aw…
- ◐CupheadA run-and-gun game drawn in the style of 1930s cartoons, animated by hand and inked on pa…
- ●CushioningKeeping a few backup options warm while in a relationship, in case it ends — the cushion …
- ●DYOR'Do your own research' — the disclaimer at the end of a post recommending something, whic…
- ☠DadcoreChunky white trainers, a fleece, cargo shorts, a bucket hat, tube socks and the general s…
- ◐Dead CellsA headless prisoner fights through a castle that resets when he dies, fast enough to be c…
- ☠Dear DavidAdam Ellis's Twitter thread, begun in August 2017, describing a child ghost called David …
- ◐Decentraland LandParcels of a browser-based virtual world, sold as NFTs from 2017 and treated in 2021 as r…
- ●Default (Fortnite)A player using one of Fortnite's free default skins, and therefore assumed to be new, poo…
- ●DespacitoThe Spanish-language single that took the YouTube view record and then kept taking it — f…
- ☠Distracted BoyfriendThree people, three labels, one joke, approximately four million times. Retired not by di…
- ◐Doki Doki Literature ClubA free dating-sim about a school poetry club with a content warning at the start that mos…
- ◐DropshippingSelling products you never touch — the order goes to a warehouse abroad, the margin goes …
- ●Dry TextingReplying with as few words as possible — 'ok', 'lol', 'nice' — as the crime of the dry te…
- ●ENS NamesHuman-readable names ending in .eth that point to an Ethereum address, launched in 2017 a…
- ☠ElsagateThe 2017 scandal over YouTube videos aimed at children — often featuring Elsa, Spider-Man…
- ●Engagement BaitA post designed to make you reply — 'tag a friend who', 'wrong answers only', a deliberat…
- ●Escape from TarkovA hardcore extraction shooter in closed beta from 2017 and sold from its own site, which …
- ◐Expanding BrainFour brains, each more luminous, each attached to a stupider idea. The last widely-used f…
- ☠Fidget SpinnerA bearing between three lobes, spun for no reason. Went from unknown to banned in classro…
- ●Flee the FacilityA Roblox round game in which one player is the Beast with a hammer and four survivors hac…
- ●FlexTo show off, particularly a purchase. 'Weird flex but ok' was the correct response for on…
- ◐For the Damaged CodaA short piano piece from 2000 by Blonde Redhead, made recognisable by Rick and Morty and …
- ●FortniteEpic's free battle royale, bolted onto a co-op building game in September 2017 and, withi…
- ●Free FireA battle royale of fifty players and ten-minute matches, built to run on cheap phones and…
- ●Frutiger AeroGlossy gradients, water droplets, tropical fish, and unearned optimism. A style that only…
- ◐Getting Over It with Bennett FoddyA man in a cauldron climbs a mountain of junk using only a sledgehammer, and one slip can…
- ●GigachadA black-and-white photograph of a man with an impossible jaw, from a Russian art project,…
- ●Glass SkinSkin so hydrated and even it looks like glass — glass skin — a Korean beauty ideal that a…
- ◐Golf It!Physics minigolf for up to eight players in which the ball can be hit as hard as the mous…
- ☠Granny (Game)A mobile horror game in which you have five days to escape a house while a grandmother wi…
- ●Gru's PlanFour panels of a villain presenting a plan, in which the third step reveals a flaw and th…
- ☠Gucci GangA Lil Pump single built on a hook that says its own name over and over, which turned out …
- ☠HQ TriviaA live quiz at 3pm and 9pm with a real host and real money. Two million people at once, f…
- ▲Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of AshA three-page chapter of Harry Potter produced in December 2017 by writers using a predict…
- ◐HavanaA slow-burning single named after Havana, where the singer was born, which climbed to num…
- ●Hollow KnightA hand-drawn game about a small bug with a nail exploring a dead kingdom of bugs, made by…
- ●HomescapesA match-three game in which a butler called Austin renovates his parents' house, advertis…
- ◐Hopepunk'The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on' — the whole of a 2017 Tumblr post by A…
- ●Hot DropLanding at the most popular, best-looted spot on a battle royale map at the start of a ma…
- ◐Howard the AlienA green-screened 3D alien dancing, cut to Lil Uzi Vert's Money Longer. Uploaded as a stoc…
- ◐Hustle CultureThe belief that constant work is a virtue — the 4 a.m. alarm, the side hustle, the 'rise …
- ◐InspiroBotA website that produces a stock-photo sunset and a slogan in the register of a motivation…
- ◐Instagram vs RealityThe side-by-side format that pairs a posed, edited photo with the same body or room un-po…
- ☠It's Everyday BroA 2017 song and video by Jake Paul and his 'Team 10' housemates — 'It's Everyday Bro' — a…
- ●Jailbreak (Roblox)A Roblox cops-and-robbers game in which prisoners break out, rob banks and trains, and po…
- ◐KittenfishingCatfishing, but small: old photos, a rounded-up height, a 'love hiking' that means one wa…
- ◐Lodi'Idol', spelled backwards — Filipino slang of 2017 for a person one admires, born of the …
- ◐Logan Paul Forest VideoThe vlog uploaded by Logan Paul on 31 December 2017, filmed in Japan's Aokigahara forest,…
- ◐Look What You Made Me DoThe comeback single released on 27 August 2017 whose video took the 24-hour viewing recor…
- ●Mafia CityA mafia-themed strategy game whose advertising, a chart of a boy in a hoodie becoming a s…
- ☠Man's Not HotA freestyle by the British comedian Michael Dapaah, delivered in character, whose deliber…
- ☠Mass Effect: AndromedaBioWare's 2017 Mass Effect, released in a state whose facial animations, all wide eyes an…
- ◐Mine (Bazzi)A Bazzi song that reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 largely because one line of …
- ●Misinformation vs DisinformationThe distinction the careful insist on: misinformation is false and shared in good faith; …
- ☠MixerMicrosoft's Twitch rival, born as Beam in 2016 and renamed Mixer in May 2017, which in Au…
- ●Mocking SpongeBobA sponge crouched like a chicken, plus text in aLtErNaTiNg CaSe. The only meme that added…
- ●Monk ModeA period of self-imposed isolation — no socialising, no phone, no dating, only work, gym …
- ☠NBA 2K18The 2017 basketball game in which the Virtual Currency system reached the point of buying…
- ◐Nani?!'What?!' — the Japanese interjection, shouted, as it was in a 1984 anime whose famous exc…
- ◐Night in the WoodsA cat called Mae drops out of college and comes home to a Pennsylvanian mining town where…
- ●NitroDiscord's paid subscription — bigger uploads, animated avatars, custom emoji everywhere —…
- ◐No CapNo lie, seriously — from 'cap' meaning exaggeration, out of Atlanta and into every senten…
- ●Noam ShazeerThe Google engineer who joined in 2000, co-wrote the Transformer paper in 2017, built ear…
- ◐NotchThe black cut-out at the top of a phone screen housing the camera and Face ID, introduced…
- ●Ok And?'Okay, and?' — the reply to a statement offered as damning that the replier does not find…
- ◐Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru'You are already dead' — 'nani?!' — a 1984 anime's catchphrase, revived in 2017 as the fo…
- ●OpenSeaThe marketplace where most of the NFT boom happened: founded in 2017, valued at a reporte…
- ●PUBGPlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the Steam Early Access game that turned the battle royale …
- ◐Petmalu'Excellent', 'fierce' — 'malupit' with its syllables swapped, the 2017 Filipino slang tha…
- ☠Pink SeasonA comedy album released by a YouTube performer under a costume persona, made of deliberat…
- ●Pity SystemThe guarantee that, after enough failed pulls, you get the thing — the mechanism that mak…
- ◐PoggersExcitement, expressed by a frog. Survived the removal of its parent emote by about two ye…
- ●Pump and DumpThe classic: buy a thinly traded asset, promote it until the price rises, sell into the b…
- ●RLHFReinforcement learning from human feedback: the method of showing people pairs of model o…
- ●Raid (Twitch)Sending one's audience to another stream at the end of one's own — a raid — as Twitch's k…
- ●RatioTo attract more replies than approval, and to be told so. A metric repurposed as an insul…
- ☠Redbone (Girl Scout Cookies)A six-year-old selling Girl Scout cookies with her father, filmed to Childish Gambino's R…
- ●RektWrecked — liquidated, wiped out, done — spelled the way a gamer spells it, and the scene'…
- ●ReplikaThe companion chatbot that began as one founder's memorial to a friend who had died and b…
- ☠Rolex (Ayo & Teo)A song by the duo Ayo & Teo built around a dance and a hashtag, the #RolexChallenge, whic…
- ◐Roll SafeA man tapping his temple — 'you can't be broke if you don't check your bank account' — as…
- ●Royale HighA Roblox fantasy school of fairies and royals in which players attend lessons, farm diamo…
- ☠Salt BaeA chef sprinkling salt down his forearm. Turned into a restaurant chain charging $1,000 f…
- ☠Scooby Doo PapaA song and dance video by the New York DJ DJ Kass, recreated widely across social media b…
- ▲Shooting StarsA 2009 Australian synth-pop song that went viral in 2017 as the soundtrack to clips of pe…
- ●SituationshipA relationship that neither party will name. Named, therefore, by everyone else.
- ●Slay the SpireA card game in which you build a deck as you climb a tower, and lose it all when you die.…
- ●Snap MapSnapchat's map, launched June 2017, on which your Bitmoji stands wherever your phone is, …
- ◐SoftboiA man who uses feelings, records and Bukowski the way a fuckboy uses abs — the softboi — …
- ●SoyjakA wojak with an open mouth, glasses and a beard, pointing at something with excessive ent…
- ●Spam AccountA second Instagram account, private and low-effort, where a young person posts fourteen t…
- ●Spitting FactsSpeaking truth rapidly and well — 'he's spitting' — from the rap word for delivering bars…
- ●Spooky Month CountdownThe September ritual of counting down to October with a specific cartoon — 'it's spooky m…
- ☠Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)EA's 2017 Star Wars shooter, whose progression through paid loot boxes produced the most …
- ◐StonksA smooth grey figure in a suit in front of a rising chart with the word 'stonks' — the jo…
- ●Streamer ModeA setting that hides personal information while live — streamer mode — and, by extension,…
- ●Streaming PartyAn organised session in which a fandom streams a song at the same time — the streaming pa…
- ◐SubmariningDisappearing and resurfacing without explanation — the submarine — as a 2017 dating word …
- ●SubstackThe paid-newsletter platform, founded in 2017, on which journalists who had been fired, o…
- ●Super ChatA paid message in a YouTube live chat — a Super Chat — highlighted in colour and pinned f…
- ●Super Mario OdysseyNintendo's 2017 Mario, in which a hat named Cappy let players possess a dinosaur, a frog …
- ●Take the LAccept the loss — 'take the L' — from gaming into everything, and the Fortnite emote that…
- ●Task Failed SuccessfullyA genuine Windows error message that said the task had failed successfully, screenshotted…
- ●The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildNintendo's open-world Zelda, released the same day as the Switch in March 2017 and the re…
- ●Third-PartiedTo be attacked by a third team while finishing a fight with a second one in a battle roya…
- ◐Toot (Mastodon)A post on Mastodon, called a 'toot' because an elephant does, until the platform quietly …
- ●TransformerThe neural-network architecture behind almost every model in this round, introduced in a …
- ●Truck-kunThe truck that hits the protagonist of an isekai and sends him to another world, personif…
- ☠Ugandan KnucklesA misshapen echidna asking whether you know the way. Lasted one winter and got people ban…
- ◐Understandable, Have a Nice DayThe polite exit from a conversation that has gone nowhere — 'understandable, have a nice …
- ●Undertaker 1998The Reddit copypasta ending — 'in nineteen ninety eight, the Undertaker threw Mankind off…
- ☠Universal PaperclipsA button that makes a paperclip, then an AI that makes paperclips, then an AI that has co…
- ●Victory RoyaleFortnite's on-screen phrase for winning a match, from the mode's launch in September 2017…
- ◐Virgin vs ChadTwo figures — one hunched, one striding — with a list of traits each: the virgin walk, th…
- ●Visible Confusion'[Visible confusion]' — a subtitle from a game cutscene, adopted as the caption for any f…
- ◐Wen Lambo'When Lamborghini?' — the question that follows any price rise, spelled wrong on purpose,…
- ◐Winner Winner Chicken DinnerPUBG's victory message, borrowed from old Las Vegas craps-table slang and shown to the la…
- ●r/placeA blank canvas on which any user could place one pixel every few minutes, which produced,…
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- ●Andrew NgThe Stanford professor who co-founded Google Brain in 2011, co-founded Coursera in 2012 a…
- ●AntiA person in a fandom who is against a character, a ship, or a celebrity — an anti — and, …
- ◐Bad and BoujeeA Migos single that became a meme almost entirely on the strength of its first two words.…
- ●BenchingKeeping someone on the bench — interested but not played — while you see who else is avai…
- ●BirbA bird, especially a round one — 'birb' — and the record's entry for the misspelling that…
- ●BlepA cat's tongue, left out slightly, by accident — the blep — and the record's entry for th…
- ●Boop the SnootTo touch an animal's nose gently with one finger — 'boop' — and the nose itself, the 'sno…
- ●BoujeeFancy, luxurious, a bit above oneself — 'boujee' — from 'bourgeois' via AAVE and a 2016 r…
- ●Brandolini's LawRefuting nonsense takes an order of magnitude more effort than producing it. Also known a…
- ◐Brutalist Web DesignRaw HTML, system fonts, no decoration, on purpose. The one aesthetic in this record that …
- ◐Bullet JournalA notebook system that became an art form — the bullet journal, 'bujo' — with spreads so …
- ●Callout PostA post listing someone's wrongs, with evidence, for the community to judge — the callout …
- ☠Cash Me OussideA teenager challenging a studio audience to a fight, in an accent that spawned a catchphr…
- ●Cat LoafA cat sitting with all four paws tucked under, so that it is a loaf — a loaf of cat — and…
- ◐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…
- ☠Content CopA series of long, documented takedowns of other YouTubers by Ian Carter — iDubbbz — begin…
- ◐CuckA man who is weak, submissive, or on the wrong side — from a much older word, via a speci…
- ●Davai'Come on', 'let's go' — the Russian rally cry, the other thing Western gamers learned fro…
- ☠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 …
- ●Emote (Twitch)A small image posted in chat instead of a word — an emote — as Twitch's vocabulary, from …
- ●FTC DisclosureThe legal requirement that paid endorsements say so, clearly and near the endorsement — t…
- ◐Fake NewsFabricated news stories built for shares — fake news — a phrase that briefly meant someth…
- ●FeelsBadManA sad Pepe, and the phrase — 'feels bad, man' — from the Boy's Club comic into a Twitch e…
- ●Fellow KidsA brand or an adult trying too hard to sound young. The GIF is from 2012 and the situatio…
- ●Finna'About to' — 'finna', from 'fixing to' — as the AAVE future tense that the internet adopt…
- ●Fire Emoji🔥 — approval, heat, excellence — as the emoji under any good photo, song or outfit, and …
- ●FloofA very fluffy animal, or the fluff itself — 'look at this floof' — as the internet's word…
- ◐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…
- ◐Gokuraku JodoA J-pop single released on 28 July 2016 with a dance video, which crossed to the Chinese …
- ◐Heckin'Very', in DoggoLingo — 'a heckin good boy' — as the intensifier for animal captions, and…
- ●Highkey'Openly', 'very much' — 'highkey' — as the back-formation from lowkey for the feeling you…
- ●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…
- ☠HyggeCandles, wool socks, a cinnamon bun and a Danish word for cosiness that the British publi…
- ◐If Young Metro Don't Trust YouA producer tag — the spoken credit a beatmaker drops at the start of a track — that escap…
- ◐It's Time to Stop'It's time to stop' — shouted by Filthy Frank, the character played by George Miller, in …
- ◐It's Wednesday My DudesA man in a frog mask screaming 'it's Wednesday, my dudes' — and the frog itself, the Budg…
- ●Left on ReadA message that has been seen and not answered — left on read — as the small cruelty that …
- ◐Loot BoxPaying for a random reward inside a game. Regulated as gambling in several countries; fad…
- ●Mario Kart 8Nintendo's kart racer, released for the Wii U in May 2014 with anti-gravity tracks and Lu…
- ●Me IRL'Me in real life' — the caption under a picture of a sad animal, a broken object or a car…
- ☠Millennial PinkA dusty salmon somewhere between Rose Quartz and a Glossier bag — millennial pink — as th…
- ●Natural Disaster SurvivalA Roblox game in which players stand on a small map and wait to see whether the round's d…
- ◐Nephew'Nephew' — the address for a younger, sillier person, said with an uncle's exasperation, …
- ●NormieA normal person, as an insult from people who spend too long online — someone who uses me…
- ◐Notification SquadThe commenters who arrive within a minute of upload because the bell told them — 'notific…
- ●Oddly SatisfyingVideo of things fitting, cutting, pouring or peeling perfectly — oddly satisfying — as th…
- ●Pack OpeningThe video genre of a person opening virtual packs — FIFA, then Hearthstone, Pokémon, anyt…
- ●Persona 5Atlus's stylish high-school heist RPG, released in Japan in September 2016 and worldwide …
- ●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…
- ●ProblematicHaving done or said something wrong — problematic — as Tumblr's word for it in 2013, from…
- ◐PupperA small dog, in DoggoLingo — the dialect in which a dog is a doggo, a small one a pupper,…
- ◐REEE'REEEEE' — a scream of rage, typed, associated with a furious Pepe and used to mock anyon…
- ●ReceiptsScreenshots proving what someone said. The reason nobody deletes anything and the reason …
- ●Red PillThe pill from The Matrix that shows the truth, adopted by online communities — first abou…
- ●RedboneA 2016 Childish Gambino single that became a meme in early 2017 through remixes fitting t…
- ●Same'Same' — agreement with a feeling, in one word, as the reply to a picture of a dog asleep…
- ●Scottish TwitterThe Scots dialect, typed phonetically, applied to everyday disasters — 'ma maw', 'a wee',…
- ●ShookShocked, rattled, unable to cope — 'I'm shook' — from a 1995 rap record into the 2016–18 …
- ●Smash That Like ButtonThe YouTuber's request — 'smash that like button, hit subscribe, ring the bell' — said so…
- ●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…
- ◐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…
- ●StanTo support obsessively. Began as a cautionary tale about a fan who drives into a river an…
- ●Super LikeTinder's blue star, launched in October 2015 — a swipe-up that tells the other person you…
- ●Thirst TrapA photo posted to provoke desire — a thirst trap — as the Instagram genre that everyone p…
- ▲To Be ContinuedA short clip that freezes at the worst possible moment while Roundabout by Yes comes in a…
- ●Try Not to LaughThe compilation format — 'Try Not to Laugh Challenge', a dozen short clips of falls, anim…
- ●Two ButtonsA sweating man choosing between two buttons — a comic panel from 2014 that became the for…
- ●Typing BubbleThe three dots that mean someone is typing, and the anxiety when they stop — the typing b…
- ●U Up?'You up?' — the 2 a.m. text that has one purpose and asks it in two characters, as the re…
- ◐Ultimate Chicken HorseFour animals take turns placing a trap on a platform level, then all of them have to run …
- ●Virtue SignallingExpressing an opinion to look good rather than to do good — virtue signalling — coined in…
- ●VlogmasThe practice of uploading a vlog every day from 1 to 25 December — Vlogmas — as the YouTu…
- ●WeRateDogsMatt Nelson's Twitter account, started in November 2015, that posts a photograph of a dog…
- ☠Wenger OutThe banner, the hashtag, and the grudge — 'Wenger Out' — from Arsenal supporters wanting …
- ●WhataboutismAnswering a criticism with a different criticism — 'what about…' — as a Cold War term the…
- ●Yer Da'Your dad' — as the subject of a Scottish insult about a hypothetical father who sells Av…
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- ☠AIMScreen names, away messages, the door-opening sound. Twenty years of teenage life logged …
- ☠AdultingDoing grown-up tasks, announced as an achievement. Made into a class you could pay for, w…
- ☠AlphaGoThe DeepMind program that beat Lee Sedol four games to one in March 2016, watched by a re…
- ☠Bee Movie ScriptThe entire screenplay of an animated film about bees, posted in full, then sped up, then …
- ☠Bottle FlipFlipping a half-full water bottle to land upright. Banned by schools worldwide within mon…
- ☠Buddy ListA short list of people who might be online right now. Every social graph since has been a…
- ☠Cash Me OussideA teenager challenging a studio audience to a fight, in an accent that spawned a catchphr…
- ☠Club PenguinA snowy island of penguins where a generation learned to type and to be banned. Closed by…
- ☠CovfefeHalf a word, posted at midnight and left up for six hours. The press secretary claimed a …
- ☠DMOZVolunteers categorising the entire web by hand, for nineteen years, in a hierarchy nobody…
- ☠DabbingSneezing into your elbow, but a dance. Performed by the Speaker of the House of Represent…
- ☠DeliciousSocial bookmarking with tags, back when a link was worth keeping. Sold four times, redesi…
- ☠DestinyBungie's first game after Halo, released in September 2014 with $500 million of shipped c…
- ▲Doritos and Mountain DewThe pairing of a tortilla chip and a green soft drink as the sacred foods of the ironic '…
- ☠Fidget SpinnerA bearing between three lobes, spun for no reason. Went from unknown to banned in classro…
- ☠Fleek'On fleek' — perfect, flawless — coined by a teenager on Vine in June 2014 about her eyeb…
- ☠GchatThe chat box inside Gmail — officially Google Talk from August 2005, but never called tha…
- ▲Get Noscoped'Get noscoped' — shouted, captioned, or airhorned when someone is beaten quickly and styl…
- ☠Hit the QuanA song that existed to start a hashtag, and did: the #HitTheQuanChallenge put a very larg…
- ▲Illuminati ConfirmedThe caption at the end of a joke conspiracy video — a triangle, a green-tinted image, the…
- ☠KinectMicrosoft's camera controller, announced as Project Natal with a demo of a boy called Mil…
- ☠MCM / WCW'Man crush Monday' and 'woman crush Wednesday' — the weekly permission to post someone at…
- ▲MLG AirhornThe blaring stadium airhorn sample dropped into a video at the moment of a headshot, a jo…
- ☠Mannequin ChallengeEveryone freezing in place while a camera moves through the room. Performed by a presiden…
- ☠Mass Effect: AndromedaBioWare's 2017 Mass Effect, released in a state whose facial animations, all wide eyes an…
- ☠MiiverseA social network drawn in handwriting by children about video games. The gentlest communi…
- ☠Minecraft Pocket EditionThe phone version of Minecraft, released in 2011 with a tiny world, no survival mode and …
- ↺No Man's SkyHello Games' procedurally generated space game, promised on chat shows by its lead develo…
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- ▲SunspringA nine-minute science-fiction short whose script was written entirely by a recurrent neur…
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- ☠VineSix seconds, looping. Still supplying the shared reference library of an entire generatio…
- ☠We Are Number OneA song from a children's show, remixed thousands of times to fund the actor's cancer trea…
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From the blog, 2017
Amazon fail [PIC]15 Oct 2017
Bing app won't allow you to enter a location to find restaurants. Location services must be turned on.21 Apr 2017
As a developer, I don't always get to make choices about the content. All I can really do at this point is apologize sincerely.21 Apr 2017
Daily reminder to wear a helmet20 Apr 2017
Bill O'Reilly's WE'LL DO IT LIVE video20 Apr 2017
After me, a human, uninstalled it, there was still an active extension in Chrome19 Apr 2017
Let's make them register to download a soundtrack, then change our minds and make them pay to download it!19 Apr 2017
Mirror.co.uk makes you answer questions to access an article19 Apr 2017
Email option for boarding pass is a link19 Apr 2017
I never even subscribed.19 Apr 2017
Quora never cease to drive me crazy from the beginning.12 Apr 2017
The "X" in this ad is not a real button. fuck you.12 Apr 2017
Bing app won't allow you to enter a location to find restaurants. Location services must be turned on.21 Apr 2017
As a developer, I don't always get to make choices about the content. All I can really do at this point is apologize sincerely.21 Apr 2017
Daily reminder to wear a helmet20 Apr 2017
Bill O'Reilly's WE'LL DO IT LIVE video20 Apr 2017
After me, a human, uninstalled it, there was still an active extension in Chrome19 Apr 2017
Let's make them register to download a soundtrack, then change our minds and make them pay to download it!19 Apr 2017
Mirror.co.uk makes you answer questions to access an article19 Apr 2017
Email option for boarding pass is a link19 Apr 2017
I never even subscribed.19 Apr 2017
Quora never cease to drive me crazy from the beginning.12 Apr 2017
The "X" in this ad is not a real button. fuck you.12 Apr 2017