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- ●5am ClubWaking at five as a philosophy — the 5am club — from a self-help book into the morning-ro…
- ●AffirmationsStatements one repeats to become true — 'I am worthy', 'money flows to me' — affirmations…
- ●AlphaFoldDeepMind's protein-structure model, which won the biennial CASP competition in 2018 and e…
- ◐Among UsFinding the impostor on a spaceship, two years after release and during a lockdown. Left …
- ◐Axie InfinityA game of breeding and fighting cartoon creatures, each one an NFT, that became a job in …
- ◐BDE'Big dick energy' — a quiet, unforced confidence, named in June 2018 during a week of dis…
- ◐Baby I'm YoursA 2010 disco-pop song by Breakbot that became the soundtrack for a specific remix format:…
- ☠Baldi's BasicsA game-jam entry made to look like a 1990s educational CD-ROM, in which a maths teacher c…
- ◐Based and RedpilledThe highest approval of a certain internet — 'based and redpilled' — with 'cringe and blu…
- ●Beat SaberA VR rhythm game in which the player slices flying blocks with two lightsabers in time to…
- ●Bee Swarm SimulatorA Roblox game in which the player collects pollen with a swarm of bees, converts it to ho…
- ☠Big ChungusA fat rabbit on a fake game box, presented to a GameStop employee's mother. Meaningless b…
- ●Big SadDepression, described lightly — 'the big sad' — as the internet's way of naming a serious…
- ●BitLifeA text-based life simulator in which the player is born, presses a button to age a year, …
- ◐BloomerThe doomer who got better — a wojak with a smile, a plant and a plan — as the hopeful mem…
- ●Bloons TD 6The sixth tower-defence game about monkeys popping balloons, released on Steam in Decembe…
- ●BlursedBlessed and cursed at once — a picture that is wholesome and wrong in the same frame. The…
- ●Bongo CatA simple drawn cat hitting bongos in time to any song, which became a website, a Twitch o…
- ☠BowsetteA week in September 2018 when a new Mario item that turns Toadette into Peach was applied…
- ●Brawl StarsA top-down arena shooter of three-player teams, short matches and dozens of characters ca…
- ●BreathworkBreathing, as a discipline with a booking system — breathwork — the wellness rebrand of t…
- ●Cancel CultureThe practice of collective withdrawal of support — cancel culture — named as a phenomenon…
- ◐CapA lie — 'that's cap' — and the 🧢 emoji for calling one, from Atlanta slang into everyone…
- ◐CelesteA platformer about a young woman climbing a mountain while a purple version of herself ar…
- ◐Change My MindA man at a folding table with a sign — a claim, then 'change my mind' — as the 2018 forma…
- ●Channel MembershipA monthly subscription to a specific YouTube channel — a channel membership — for badges,…
- ●Chaotic GoodA person who does the right thing in the wrong way — from the role-playing alignment char…
- ●ChonkA fat cat, affectionately — 'a heckin' chonker' — from a 2018 chart that graded cats from…
- ●Close FriendsThe green ring: a story shared with a chosen list, which became a social hierarchy — who …
- ●CocomelonA children's YouTube channel of nursery rhymes with a baby called JJ, watched by so many …
- ●ComputeComputing power, as a mass noun and as the scarce resource of the round: chips, the elect…
- ◐CottagecoreBaking bread in a meadow in a dress, as an aspiration. Peaked in a pandemic spring when t…
- ●Crab RaveAn April Fool's release for the label Monstercat that stopped being a joke almost immedia…
- ◐Cranking 90sBuilding a spiral tower of ramps and walls at high speed in Fortnite, turning ninety degr…
- ●Crypto WinterThe long cold stretch after a boom — the phrase for 2018–19 and again for 2022–23, borrow…
- ●Cursed CommentA reply so wrong, dark or unexpected that it curses the innocent post above it — the curs…
- ●Dark ModeThe system-wide black-background setting that arrived on the Mac in September 2018 and th…
- ●Dhar MannA YouTube channel of short moral dramas — a bully learns a lesson, a rich man is humbled,…
- ●Diablo ImmortalA mobile Diablo game announced at BlizzCon 2018 to a room expecting a PC sequel, and reme…
- ●Diff'Difference' — the reason a game was lost, blamed on one position: 'jungle diff', 'suppor…
- ◐DilbarA Hindi remake of a 1999 Bollywood number, rebuilt with Arabic and Moroccan influences an…
- ◐DoomerA wojak in a black hoodie smoking, with a playlist of sad songs and no hope: the doomer, …
- ●DoomscrollingContinuing to read bad news past the point of information. The rare coinage that named a …
- ☠DramageddonThe name given to the 2018–2020 series of feuds among beauty YouTubers — Dramageddon 1 (2…
- ☠Edmond de BelamyA blurred portrait of a fictional gentleman in a dark coat, generated by a GAN, printed o…
- ◐Emergency MeetingThe button in Among Us that halts the game so the crew can argue about who is the imposto…
- ●Emote DanceAny dance that exists mainly because it is in Fortnite — the floss, the griddy, the Orang…
- ●Engagement FarmingPosting whatever produces replies — polls, wrong opinions, 'name a better one', an image …
- ●Essay (Too Long)'Not reading your essay' — a reply of more than two lines, dismissed as an essay, as the …
- ◐FOBO'Fear of a better option' — the inability to commit to a plan in case a better one arrive…
- ↺Fallout 76Bethesda's online Fallout, released in November 2018 with no human characters, a great ma…
- ●Fear & HungerA dungeon role-playing game of extreme cruelty made in RPG Maker by one Finnish developer…
- ●FediverseThe federated universe of servers that talk to each other — Mastodon, and its cousins — a…
- ●FemcelThe female incel — first as a serious forum term, then, by 2022, as a TikTok aesthetic of…
- ●Fine-TuningTaking a model that has already been trained on everything and training it a little more …
- ●Floor Here Is Made of FloorA man inspecting the ground, captioned with a tautology — 'hmm yes, the floor here is mad…
- ●For You PageA feed of things you did not ask for, from people you do not follow, correctly guessing w…
- ●Gacha LifeA character-dressing app in which players build anime-style avatars and pose them in scen…
- ☠Gen Z YellowThe bright, custard yellow declared by the fashion press in 2018 to be the successor to m…
- ●GlowieA federal agent, or anyone suspected of being one, on a board — 'glowie', from a late pro…
- ●God of War (2018)Sony's reboot of a series about rage, in which Kratos became a father, spoke quietly and …
- ◐God's PlanA Drake number one whose video consists largely of him giving money away on camera — cheq…
- ●Gods UnchainedA digital card game in the Hearthstone mould whose cards are NFTs, built by the Australia…
- ◐Google DuplexThe Google demo of May 2018 in which the Assistant telephoned a hair salon and a restaura…
- ☠Google PodcastsA podcast app that did the job, retired so that podcasts could be shown inside a music ap…
- ●Harry Potter: Hogwarts MysteryA story game in which the player attends Hogwarts as a new student, with an energy meter …
- ☠Helix JumpA ball bounces down a spiral tower and you rotate the tower so it lands on the right colo…
- ☠Hit or Miss'Hit or miss, I guess they never miss, huh?' — a cosplayer lip-syncing in a shop, which b…
- ☠Humane (Company)The company founded in 2018 by two former Apple designers that raised around $230m, kept …
- ◐HunA woman selling a multi-level-marketing product in your messages — 'hey hun!' — as the na…
- ☠I Forced a Bot to WatchThe opening line of a 2018 joke script, 'I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Oliv…
- ☠In My Feelings ChallengeA dance challenge attached to Drake's 2018 single, replicated by Odell Beckham Jr., Will …
- ●Influencer BoxingYouTubers fighting YouTubers in a boxing ring, for money, in front of an audience who had…
- ↺It's Coming HomeThe chorus of 'Three Lions' (1996) reborn as an internet meme during England's run to the…
- ◐JOMO'Joy of missing out' — the wellness industry's 2018 answer to FOMO, for people who had de…
- ●JapaTo leave the country — the Yoruba word for running away, made a slogan by a 2018 song and…
- ●Just ChattingTwitch's category for streams with no game — a person talking — which became the platform…
- ●Kai-Fu LeeThe former head of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia whose 2018 book 'AI Superpowe…
- ◐Kawhi LaughKawhi Leonard's laugh at his first Raptors media day, 24 September 2018 — 'I'm a fun guy'…
- ●Last to LeaveThe challenge format in which contestants stay in, on or near something — a circle, a poo…
- ◐Laung LaachiThe title song of a Punjabi film that became the most-viewed song video in India by Decem…
- ◐LigmaA fake disease that exists to be asked about — 'what's ligma?' — with a punchline that th…
- ◐Lolly BombA Russian rave band's video in which an impersonator of Kim Jong-un, Howard X, falls in l…
- ●Loss PornScreenshots of catastrophic trading losses, posted for the community's admiration — loss …
- ●MLM DiscourseThe internet's turn against multi-level marketing — the subreddit, the screenshots of 'hu…
- ●Marvel's Spider-ManInsomniac's PlayStation Spider-Man, released in September 2018 to the fastest sales of an…
- ◐Modern Problems Require Modern SolutionsDave Chappelle's line from 2004, as the 2018–19 caption for any absurd fix: a phone taped…
- ☠Momo ChallengeA bird-woman sculpture supposedly telling children to hurt themselves via WhatsApp. Never…
- ●Monster Hunter: WorldCapcom's 2018 Monster Hunter, the first in the series built for the West, which became th…
- ☠Mooo!A novelty song built around the assertion that the singer is a cow and not a cat, filmed …
- ●Morning RoutineThe genre of video in which someone shows you how they start the day — the 5 a.m. alarm, …
- ☠Nicolas Cage DeepfakesThe comic strand of the original deepfake wave: Nicolas Cage's face swapped onto Amy Adam…
- ◐Nine-Year-OldsPewDiePie's 2018 onward name for his own audience — 'my 9-year-olds', the 'nine-year-old …
- ●Nobody's Gonna Read This ButThe opening line of a comment that hopes very much to be read — 'nobody's gonna read this…
- ◐Nobody: FormatA caption format in which 'Nobody:' (or 'Literally nobody:') is followed by a blank line …
- ●Notes App ApologyA screenshot of a phone's notes app containing an apology, posted by a celebrity as if th…
- ☠Obama Deepfake PSAA public-service video in which a deepfaked Barack Obama warns that 'we are entering an e…
- ☠Ole's at the WheelThe Manchester United chant — 'Ole's at the wheel, tell me how good does it feel' — from …
- ●OrbitingWatching someone's stories and liking their posts after ghosting them — staying in orbit …
- ●Original SoundTikTok's label for audio recorded in the app rather than pulled from its library — 'origi…
- ●Overcooked! 2A co-operative kitchen game in which four players shout ingredients at each other across …
- ●PUBG MobileThe phone version of the battle royale that started the genre, built by Tencent and relea…
- ●PepegaA Pepe with a lopsided face, spammed in Twitch chat when a streamer does something stupid…
- ◐Perfectly Balanced'Perfectly balanced, as all things should be' — Thanos's justification for halving the un…
- ●Pleading Face🥺 — the big wet eyes, for asking for something, for being touched by something, and, wit…
- ●Polite CatA cat with a small, closed-mouth smile of great restraint, used for the moment you are be…
- ●Post and GhostPosting something and logging off before the replies — 'post and ghost' — as the only hea…
- ●Pummel PartyA board game with minigames in the manner of Mario Party, but on PC, online, and with ite…
- ●RaftA co-op survival game on a raft, in which flotsam is hooked out of the sea and a shark ea…
- ●Red Dead Redemption 2Rockstar's slow western, released in October 2018 to the biggest opening weekend in enter…
- ●Reply GuyA man who replies to every post by one woman. Catalogued in nine types in 2018 and none o…
- ◐Return of the Obra DinnAn insurance investigator boards a ship that has drifted back to port in 1807 with everyo…
- ☠STOOPIDA single whose accompanying dance became a TikTok challenge and whose audio ended up unde…
- ●Sad Cat Thumbs UpThe crying cat, with a thumb up — 'it's fine, I'm fine' — as the reaction for accepting b…
- ●Say Less'You don't need to say more — I'm in.' Agreement that saves everyone time, from AAVE into…
- ●Say Sike Right Now'Say sike right now' — the demand that a statement be retracted immediately, as if the sp…
- ●Screen Time (Shame)The weekly report of hours spent on a phone — and the screenshot of it, posted as a confe…
- ◐Sending Me'This is sending me' — making me laugh so hard I am leaving my body. A late-2010s phrase …
- ●Sir, This Is a Wendy'sThe reply to a rant delivered to the wrong audience — a political speech in a cooking for…
- ●Skeleton Meme SeasonThe annual arrival of skeleton memes on the first of October — the dancing skeleton, the …
- ●SorareA French fantasy football game in which players collect licensed player cards as tokens a…
- ☠Sub to PewDiePieThe battle cry of the 2018–2019 subscriber race — 'subscribe to PewDiePie' — chanted, spr…
- ●Super Smash Bros. UltimateNintendo's crossover fighter, revealed in June 2018 with every character from the series'…
- ◐SuperRareThe curated single-edition art marketplace from 2018 that positioned itself as the galler…
- ◐Surprise SongThe acoustic slot in a Taylor Swift show where she plays a song not on the setlist — the …
- ●Surprised PikachuA yellow mouse with its mouth open, for outcomes that were entirely predictable. The reac…
- ●SweatyPlaying too hard, too seriously, with too many keybinds — 'sweaty' — as the successor to …
- ☠T-Series WarThe 2018–2019 contest for the most-subscribed YouTube channel between PewDiePie and T-Ser…
- ☠TanaConA YouTuber convention organised by Tana Mongeau in June 2018 as a rival to VidCon, which …
- ◐Thank U, NextA number one single whose video, released on 30 November 2018, restaged Mean Girls, Bring…
- ●Thanks, I Hate It'Thanks, I hate it' — the reply to an image that has been shown to you and cannot be unse…
- ☠Thanos SnapHalf of everything, gone. A subreddit banned half its 700,000 members at random to celebr…
- ●This Is AmericaA Childish Gambino video that passed 12.9 million views in under 24 hours and 50 million …
- ☠Tide Pod ChallengeEating laundry detergent, on camera, as a joke that a few people took literally. YouTube …
- ↺Tilted TowersThe city on Fortnite's original island, added in January 2018 and instantly the map's mos…
- ●Toca Life WorldA digital dolls' house of shops, homes and characters with no goals, no scores and a grea…
- ●Tower of HellA Roblox obstacle course with no checkpoints: a randomly assembled tower that resets when…
- ●Trauma BondA clinical term for the attachment a victim forms to an abuser, which TikTok redefined as…
- ●Wait, That's Illegal'Wait, that's illegal' — a line from Halo 2 spoken when the player does something the gam…
- ☠Walmart Yodeling KidA boy yodelling Hank Williams in a supermarket aisle, filmed by a stranger, and, within a…
- ●We Love to See It'We love to see it' — approval of a good outcome, in the collective voice, sincere or sar…
- ●Woozy Face🥴 — the woozy face, meant for drunkenness, adopted for lust, awkwardness, and 'I'm not o…
- ●World ModelA model that learns how the world works, physics, objects and consequences, rather than h…
- ●XCOPYA London artist working in glitching, flickering GIFs of skulls, screens and slogans, sel…
- ☠Yanny or LaurelOne audio clip, two words, no agreement. The Dress for ears, and it lasted about a week l…
- ●Yoshua BengioThe Montreal researcher and 2018 Turing Award co-recipient who founded the Mila institute…
- ●YouTube PremiereA scheduled video release with a countdown, a live chat and the creator in the comments —…
- ☠YouTube Rewind 2018The 2018 edition of YouTube's annual year-in-review video, which within a week of its 6 D…
- ●ZoomerA member of Generation Z, in the wojak family: a haircut, a Fortnite reference, a vape, a…
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- ●ASMRAutonomous sensory meridian response — the tingle from whispering, tapping and crinkling …
- ●AlexaAmazon's voice assistant, launched inside a cylinder in November 2014 and in tens of mill…
- ●Algorithmic BiasSystems that reproduce the prejudices in their data: a sentencing tool that scored Black …
- ☠Baby SharkA campfire song about a family of sharks, rebuilt in neon. The most-viewed video on YouTu…
- ●Back-Seat GamingTelling a player what to do while they play — back-seat gaming — from the sofa into the c…
- ●BaddieContoured, laid edges, long nails, a matching set, a lash and a ring light — the baddie —…
- ◐Big EnoughAn EDM country track whose video puts Jimmy Barnes in the sky as a giant screaming cowboy…
- ●Big If True'Big if true' — the reply to a claim that would matter if it were real, from political Tw…
- ●BiohackingTreating the body as a system to be optimised with supplements, gadgets, fasting, cold an…
- ●Bloons TDMonkeys throw darts at balloons that walk along a path, and the balloons get harder. A Fl…
- ●Blowing UpSuddenly popular — 'this is blowing up' — or, of a phone, receiving too many notification…
- ●BotAn automated account, and, since 2016, the accusation — 'you're a bot' — levelled at anyo…
- ●Bot FarmA bank of automated accounts run from one place to like, follow, retweet and trend on dem…
- ●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…
- ▲Bwoah'Bwoah' — the sound Kimi Räikkönen made instead of an answer, transcribed by F1 fans arou…
- ●Calm'Fine', 'no problem', 'okay' — 'calm' — as the London acknowledgement that describes a st…
- ●CollabA collaboration between creators, shortened — 'collab' — as the unit of internet friendsh…
- ●Confused Math LadyA woman frowning with equations floating around her head — a Brazilian soap actress and s…
- ●Cookie BannerThe box that asks you to accept cookies before every website — the cookie banner — a Euro…
- ●Crying CatA cat with glassy, wet eyes, edited to look like it is about to cry, used for any small s…
- ◐CryptoKittiesCartoon cats that could be bred to produce new cartoon cats, launched in November 2017 an…
- ●Cursed ImageA photograph that is wrong in a way you cannot name — a bathtub full of eggs, a man in a …
- ☠DadcoreChunky white trainers, a fleece, cargo shorts, a bucket hat, tube socks and the general s…
- ●Day One PatchThe update a game needs the day it comes out — often larger than the game — and the phras…
- ◐Dead CellsA headless prisoner fights through a castle that resets when he dies, fast enough to be c…
- ●Default (Fortnite)A player using one of Fortnite's free default skins, and therefore assumed to be new, poo…
- ●Delete This'Delete this' — the reply to a post that is too embarrassing, too bad or too funny to rem…
- ●DemonetizedStripped of advertising revenue by YouTube's automated systems — demonetized — as the wor…
- ●DogpileA crowd attacking one person at once — a dogpile, a pile-on — as the internet's word for …
- ◐Doki Doki Literature ClubA free dating-sim about a school poetry club with a content warning at the start that mos…
- ●Double TextSending a second message before the first was answered — the double text — as an act of e…
- ◐DramaAlertThe YouTube 'news' show run by Daniel Keem — Keemstar — from 2014, which reported feuds b…
- ●EOD'End of day' — the deadline that means 'today', without saying which hour, and the record…
- ●Early AccessPaying for a game before it is finished, as a model — some finished, some did not — and t…
- ●Ellipsis (Ominous)'…' — three dots, which older texters use as a pause and younger ones read as a threat: '…
- ●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…
- ●Fake GiveawayA post promising a car, a console or a doubled deposit if you like, share and follow — th…
- ●Fan WarA conflict between fandoms — over charts, awards, or nothing — conducted in replies and h…
- ●Fate/Grand OrderA gacha role-playing game in which historical and mythological figures are summoned as se…
- ◐FinstaA fake Instagram — the private second account for the real self, with the bad photos and …
- ●FortniteEpic's free battle royale, bolted onto a co-op building game in September 2017 and, withi…
- ◐Getting Over It with Bennett FoddyA man in a cauldron climbs a mountain of junk using only a sledgehammer, and one slip can…
- ●Glass SkinSkin so hydrated and even it looks like glass — glass skin — a Korean beauty ideal that a…
- ☠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…
- ☠HQ TriviaA live quiz at 3pm and 9pm with a real host and real money. Two million people at once, f…
- ●HangryAngry because hungry. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2018 and survived the hon…
- ◐HavanaA slow-burning single named after Havana, where the singer was born, which climbed to num…
- ◐Howard the AlienA green-screened 3D alien dancing, cut to Lil Uzi Vert's Money Longer. Uploaded as a stoc…
- ●Human: Fall FlatA soft white figure called Bob with a flat head and arms that grab anything wobbles throu…
- ●Incel'Involuntary celibate' — coined in 1997 by a woman as a support-group name, and taken ove…
- ◐InspiroBotA website that produces a stock-photo sunset and a slogan in the register of a motivation…
- ●IntingDying on purpose to ruin a game — inting, from 'intentional feeding' — as the MOBA's word…
- ●Is This a JoJo ReferenceThe reflex of a fandom that sees its show everywhere — a pose, a name, a colour — asked s…
- ◐Is This a PigeonAn anime character misidentifying a butterfly. Dormant for seven years, then the format o…
- ●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…
- ●League of LegendsThe free five-a-side game built from the DotA map by one of its former maintainers, which…
- ●Let's Take This Offline'Let's take this offline' — the phrase that ends an argument in a meeting by promising to…
- ◐Live Laugh LoveThree words on a wooden sign in a suburban kitchen, mocked by the internet from 2016 as t…
- ◐Logan Paul Forest VideoThe vlog uploaded by Logan Paul on 31 December 2017, filmed in Japan's Aokigahara forest,…
- ●LossA four-panel webcomic about a miscarriage, from a gaming comic that was never serious bef…
- ●Mafia CityA mafia-themed strategy game whose advertising, a chart of a boy in a hoodie becoming a s…
- ●MaknaeThe youngest member of a group — a Korean word that international K-pop fandom took on wh…
- ☠Man's Not HotA freestyle by the British comedian Michael Dapaah, delivered in character, whose deliber…
- ◐MeepCityA Roblox social game of houses, fishing and a round pet called a Meep, and the first game…
- ●Meta (Gaming)The current best strategy — the meta — as what everyone does because it works, in a game,…
- ●MicrotransactionA small purchase inside a game — first a horse's armour for $2.50 in 2006, then everythin…
- ●Milkshake DuckA thing the internet adores for five minutes before discovering it is unforgivable. Coine…
- ◐Mine (Bazzi)A Bazzi song that reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 largely because one line of …
- ●Mood'Mood' — a caption meaning 'this is how I feel', on a picture of a raccoon in a bin — and…
- ●MutingSilencing someone without their knowledge — a mute — as the polite alternative to blockin…
- ◐Nani?!'What?!' — the Japanese interjection, shouted, as it was in a 1984 anime whose famous exc…
- ●No Mames'No way', 'you're kidding' — the Mexican expression of disbelief, vulgar in origin and un…
- ◐NotchThe black cut-out at the top of a phone screen housing the camera and Face ID, introduced…
- ●OTW'On the way' — the acronym one sends from the sofa, which mid-2000s texting created and w…
- ●One-TapA kill with a single click, one bullet to the head, in Counter-Strike and its descendants…
- ●Oof (Roblox)The short 'oof' a Roblox avatar made on dying, borrowed from a 2000 PC game called Messia…
- ◐Oui Oui Baguette'Oui oui baguette' — the anglophone internet's entire impression of the French language, …
- ●OvercookedUp to four cooks in a kitchen that is on a moving lorry, or on ice, or splitting in two, …
- ●PUBGPlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the Steam Early Access game that turned the battle royale …
- ●PatreonThe membership platform, founded in May 2013 by musician Jack Conte, where fans pay a cre…
- ●PepeHandsA crying Pepe holding its hands up in despair, for the moment a streamer loses, a chat's …
- ●Ping Me'Ping me' — send me a message — from a network diagnostic into every office, and the reco…
- ☠PogChampA face of surprise, typed millions of times a day, deleted by its landlord in an afternoo…
- ●Prayer Hands🙏 — thanks, please, blessed, or a high five, depending on who you ask — as the emoji tha…
- ●Press X to DoubtThe interrogation prompt from a 2011 game, as the caption for any claim you do not believ…
- ●Queen'Queen' — the address for any woman doing anything approvingly, and, with 'yaaas', the wh…
- ●Red Arrow ThumbnailThe thick red arrow pointing at something in a thumbnail — a small object, a face, nothin…
- ◐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…
- ●RoadmanA young man of the streets, in a tracksuit and a man-bag, speaking MLE — the roadman — as…
- ●RoguelikeA game like Rogue (1980): procedurally generated, turn-based, and finished by dying and s…
- ◐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…
- ☠Scooby Doo PapaA song and dance video by the New York DJ DJ Kass, recreated widely across social media b…
- ●Screaming'Screaming' — typed in capitals, alone, by a person who is not screaming, as the reaction…
- ●ShadowbanBeing hidden without being told. Denied by every platform and experienced by every user, …
- ●Snap MapSnapchat's map, launched June 2017, on which your Bitmoji stands wherever your phone is, …
- ◐SnatchedLooking extremely good, tightly — 'snatched' — from drag vocabulary into the beauty inter…
- ●Spill the TeaShare the gossip. Borrowed, like most of the last decade's good phrases, from people who …
- ●SplootAn animal lying flat with its back legs stretched out behind — the sploot — first named f…
- ●Sponsored PostAn ordinary-looking post that a brand has paid for — the sponsored post — the base unit o…
- ●Stack Overflow Copy-PasteProgramming by copying the top answer — the Stack Overflow copy-paste — as the industry's…
- ●StoriesThe 24-hour vertical slideshow — invented by Snapchat in October 2013, copied by Instagra…
- ●Stream SnipingWatching a streamer's broadcast to find and attack them in the game — stream sniping — as…
- ●Sub (Twitch)A paying subscriber to a streamer, and the word — 'sub', 'subbed', 'gifted subs' — for th…
- ◐SubmariningDisappearing and resurfacing without explanation — the submarine — as a 2017 dating word …
- ●The TimelineThe feed, as a place — 'the timeline is a mess today', 'the TL' — with its own weather, m…
- ●Thread (Twitter)A chain of tweets telling a longer story — a thread — marked with '1/' or a 🧵 and, at it…
- ●Toe BeansThe pads on a cat's paw, which look like beans, and are called beans, and are photographe…
- ●ToxicHostile, cruel, bad for everyone — toxic — as the gaming word for a player who ruins the …
- ●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…
- ☠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…
- ●Unnie'Older sister' — the Korean term a woman uses for an older woman, which K-pop fandom appl…
- ●UwU'UwU' — a face of extreme cuteness, eyes closed, mouth a small w — and 'OwO', its surpris…
- ●VRChatA social platform of user-made worlds and avatars, playable in a headset or on a monitor,…
- ●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…
- ●WaifuA fictional character one loves as one would a wife — 'my waifu' — from a 2002 anime's jo…
- ●Who Hurt You'Who hurt you?' — the reply to a take so bitter it must have a backstory, as the internet…
- ●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…
- ◐Wine MomA mother whose posts are about needing wine — 'mommy's juice', 'it's five o'clock somewhe…
- ◐Winner Winner Chicken DinnerPUBG's victory message, borrowed from old Las Vegas craps-table slang and shown to the la…
- ◐YeetTo throw with force and joy — from a Vine dance in 2014 to a verb every child used and ev…
- ●monkaSA sweating, wide-eyed Pepe, spammed in chat when something tense is happening — a boss fi…
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- ☠Art HoeYellow, a Fjällräven backpack, a Van Gogh print, an oversized shirt with a paint stain an…
- ☠Arthur's FistA cartoon aardvark's clenched hand, used for every minor injustice. PBS asked people to k…
- ☠BowsetteA week in September 2018 when a new Mario item that turns Toadette into Peach was applied…
- ☠Color SwitchA ball taps upward through spinning rings and must pass through the segment that matches …
- ☠Dear DavidAdam Ellis's Twitter thread, begun in August 2017, describing a child ghost called David …
- ☠DoggoA dog, spoken of fondly in a dialect of puppers, boops and heckin. Appeared in a Purina c…
- ☠FantageA browser world of anime-style avatars, a boardwalk of shops, a level system based on wea…
- ▲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…
- ↺It's Coming HomeThe chorus of 'Three Lions' (1996) reborn as an internet meme during England's run to the…
- ☠Juju on That BeatA song and dance made by two Detroit teenagers, spread through the #TZAnthem Challenge as…
- ☠LitExciting, of a party. Said by a Prime Minister's spokesperson about a manifesto launch, w…
- ☠MiitomoNintendo's first smartphone app, a social toy in which the player's Mii answered question…
- ☠NBA 2K18The 2017 basketball game in which the Virtual Currency system reached the point of buying…
- ☠NidhoggTwo fencers in flat colours fight a tug-of-war across a set of screens, and the winner is…
- ☠Pink SeasonA comedy album released by a YouTube performer under a costume persona, made of deliberat…
- ☠Pivot to VideoNewsrooms firing writers to make videos nobody watched, because a platform's numbers said…
- ☠Pony IslandA pastel arcade game about a running pony that turns out to be a corrupted machine built …
- ☠Redbone (Girl Scout Cookies)A six-year-old selling Girl Scout cookies with her father, filmed to Childish Gambino's R…
- ▲Royal Wedding StreamThe live stream of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011…
- ☠Sample TextThe words 'Sample Text' in a default font, floating across an MLG parody video where a ca…
- ☠Sharing EconomyRenting things to strangers, described as generosity. Died when it became clear that noth…
- ☠StumbleUponA button that took you to a random good page. Every feed since has been StumbleUpon witho…
- ☠TanaConA YouTuber convention organised by Tana Mongeau in June 2018 as a rival to VidCon, which …
- ☠Thanos SnapHalf of everything, gone. A subreddit banned half its 700,000 members at random to celebr…
- ☠Tide Pod ChallengeEating laundry detergent, on camera, as a joke that a few people took literally. YouTube …
- ☠Ugandan KnucklesA misshapen echidna asking whether you know the way. Lasted one winter and got people ban…
- ☠Universal PaperclipsA button that makes a paperclip, then an AI that makes paperclips, then an AI that has co…
- ☠Walmart Yodeling KidA boy yodelling Hank Williams in a supermarket aisle, filmed by a stranger, and, within a…
- ☠Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)A song that functions as an instruction manual: it names each move as it arrives, so the …
- ☠Wenger OutThe banner, the hashtag, and the grudge — 'Wenger Out' — from Arsenal supporters wanting …
- ▲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…
- ☠Yanny or LaurelOne audio clip, two words, no agreement. The Dress for ears, and it lasted about a week l…