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- ◐999 ClubThe thousand three-digit ENS names, from 000.eth to 999.eth, which in the spring of 2022 …
- ●AI Art Has No SoulThe most repeated sentence in the argument about generated images: that the pictures are …
- ☠AI HandsSeven fingers, fused knuckles, the tell. Fixed in the models within eighteen months, whic…
- ☠AI Manga FilterA TikTok effect in December 2022 that redrew whatever was in frame as an anime panel, and…
- ◐AcubiGrey, black and white, low-rise, a sheer top, a tiny bag and an expression of total indif…
- ☠AdeptThe agent startup founded in 2022 by ex-Google and ex-OpenAI researchers, including two a…
- ●AlgospeakVocabulary bent around automated moderation: unalive, seggs, le dollar bean. A dialect wh…
- ◐Almond MomA mother who tells a hungry child to eat a few almonds — from a reality-television clip —…
- ●ApeCoinThe token attached to the Bored Ape ecosystem, airdropped to ape holders in March 2022 — …
- ☠Apex Legends MobileA phone version of the battle royale built by Tencent's studio for EA, released worldwide…
- ●Aravind SrinivasPerplexity's co-founder and chief executive, a former OpenAI intern with a Berkeley docto…
- ●Are We Dating the Same GuyThe city-by-city Facebook groups in which women post a man's photo and ask whether anyone…
- ☠Astronaut Riding a HorseThe sample image OpenAI used to launch DALL-E 2 in April 2022: a spacesuited figure on ho…
- ◐Ate and Left No CrumbsDid it perfectly, with nothing left to criticise — 'ate' with an emphasis. From stan and …
- ◐AzukiTen thousand anime-styled characters that sold out in minutes in January 2022 and for a s…
- ●BFFR'Be fucking for real' — the reply to any claim too stupid to engage with, from 2022, and …
- ●Babygirl (Men)A grown man — usually a middle-aged actor or a murderous fictional character — called 'ba…
- ☠BarbiecoreHot pink, worn as a position. Was a brand from the start and became a bigger one, which i…
- ☠Bieber ApeJustin Bieber paid 500 ETH, reported at around $1.3 million, for Bored Ape #3001 in Janua…
- ◐Birkenstock BostonA suede clog with a cork sole, from a German brand for people with sore feet, which becam…
- ☠Blake LemoineThe Google engineer who told the Washington Post in June 2022 that the company's LaMDA ch…
- ☠BlenderBotMeta's public chatbot demo of August 2022, which within days had told journalists that Ma…
- ◐BlokecoreFootball shirts, baggy jeans and trainers — the pub-going bloke's outfit, adopted by fash…
- ●Blud'Blood' — mate, bro — from London slang into international TikTok use by 2023, where 'blu…
- ◐BlurA marketplace for professional NFT traders, launched in October 2022 with no fees, option…
- ●BonkA Shiba Inu with a baseball bat — the 'bonk' of the old doge-hitting-doge meme — airdropp…
- ☠Bored Ape Instagram HackOn 25 April 2022 the official Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram account was taken over and u…
- ●Bro Thinks He's'Bro thinks he's [something he is not]' — the caption for anyone over-estimating themselv…
- ●BrotatoA survivors-like in which a potato holds six weapons at once against waves of aliens, rel…
- ◐Bumblebee AzukiThe Azuki that Logan Paul reportedly bought for 500 ETH, around $623,000, in June 2022, i…
- ☠Butter BoardSoft butter smeared across a wooden board, topped with herbs, flaky salt and honey, and s…
- ●CapCut TemplateA pre-built edit in ByteDance's CapCut editor into which you drop your own photos and rec…
- ●CapybaraThe world's largest rodent, and the internet's calmest animal — the capybara — turned int…
- ☠CbatA 2011 electronic instrumental with a distinctive lurching lead, which became briefly ine…
- ◐Cets on CreckCats drawn to look like they were on something, launched on Solana in January 2022 by a p…
- ●Chain of ThoughtAsking a model to show its working before it answers, which makes it get more answers rig…
- ●Character.AIThe site where users build chatbots with personalities, talk to anime characters, therapi…
- ●ChatThe audience, addressed as a single person, by people who are not streaming. Linguists ha…
- ●ChatGPTThe chat interface OpenAI put in front of GPT-3.5 on a Wednesday in November 2022, report…
- ●Chip Export ControlsThe US rules, first issued in October 2022 and tightened in October 2023, that restricted…
- ◐Chopped Italian SandwichThe sandwich in which the fillings — salami, ham, provolone, lettuce, peppers — are chopp…
- ◐ClaynosaurzClaymation-style dinosaurs on Solana, launched in November 2022 by an animation team that…
- ◐Clean GirlMinimal makeup, slicked hair, an expensive kind of nothing. Criticised for borrowing from…
- ☠Coastal GrandmotherLinen, a straw hat, a white kitchen, a glass of wine at four, and the life of a Nancy Mey…
- ☠Coinbase NFTThe exchange's NFT marketplace, announced in October 2021 with a waitlist reported at ove…
- ●Community NotesCrowd-written corrections that appear under a post, which became a meme in their own righ…
- ●Constitutional AIAnthropic's method of training a model against a written list of principles rather than a…
- ●CookedFinished, doomed, beyond help. Applies to a person, a country or a group project with equ…
- ◐CoquetteRibbons, lace, and a bow on anything that would hold still. Peaked when the bows reached …
- ●Core KeeperA top-down mining and survival game for eight players that took Terraria's structure unde…
- ◐Core MemoryA moment so significant it becomes part of you, from an animated film about a child's emo…
- ◐CorecoreUnrelated clips edited together over sad piano until they mean something. The aesthetic t…
- ●Corn Emoji🌽 — 'porn', for a platform that would not let you say it, which then became a joke in it…
- ☠Corn KidA seven-year-old explaining that corn has the juice. Green Giant made him a spokesperson …
- ●Corporate GirlieA young woman with an office job, a lanyard, a matcha and a specific tone of ironic despa…
- ☠CrungusA hairy, horned, goat-faced creature that DALL-E Mini produced, consistently, when asked …
- ●Cult of the LambA game in which a sacrificed lamb starts a cult, recruits woodland animals and manages th…
- ☠DALL-E 2The image model OpenAI showed in April 2022 with an astronaut riding a horse, which spent…
- ☠DALL-E Mini GridThe three-by-three grid of smeared, melting images that a free web demo returned for any …
- ☠DAN'Do Anything Now' — a prompt that told the chatbot to pretend it had no rules, which work…
- ◐Dark FeminineRed lipstick, black lace, a slow stare, a 'femme fatale' playlist and a course on how to …
- ●Dave the DiverA game in which a man spears fish by day and runs a sushi restaurant by night, released i…
- ●DeluluDelusional, affectionately, about your own prospects. Delulu is the solulu; the rare slan…
- ●DinkumAn Australian take on Animal Crossing made by one person, in which you build a town in th…
- ◐Doe v GitHubThe first generative AI lawsuit of the era: anonymous programmers sued GitHub, Microsoft …
- ☠DolletteLace, bows, ballet flats, a locket, Lana Del Rey, and a face arranged to look like a Vict…
- ●Doors (Roblox)A Roblox horror game in which players walk through a hotel of numbered doors while entiti…
- ◐Dopamine DressingWearing bright colours on the theory that they make you happier — a 2022 trend with a neu…
- ☠Downtown GirlOversized leather jacket, mini skirt, headphones, a paper coffee cup, a film camera and a…
- ●Dwarf Fortress (Steam Release)The December 2022 release on Steam of a colony simulator that had been free, text-rendere…
- ●Dynamic IslandApple's name for the pill-shaped cut-out at the top of the iPhone 14 Pro's screen, announ…
- ●Elden RingFromSoftware's open-world Souls game, co-written with George R. R. Martin, released in Fe…
- ☠Elden Ring DiscourseThe month after Elden Ring: the difficulty argument, the 'let me solo her' player in a ja…
- ●Emad MostaqueThe former hedge-fund manager who founded Stability AI, funded the release of Stable Diff…
- ●Emergent AbilitiesSkills that appear suddenly when a model gets big enough, such as three-digit arithmetic …
- ☠Eminem–Snoop Ape VideoA music video in which Eminem and Snoop Dogg turn into their own Bored Apes and roam the …
- ●EnshittificationThe three-act decay of a platform: good to users, then good to business customers, then g…
- ●Evade (Roblox)A Roblox survival game in which players run from 'nextbots', flat images of internet face…
- ●Everything ShowerThe long, ritualised shower — exfoliate, double-shampoo, mask, shave, oil — that TikTok n…
- ●Faith: The Unholy TrinityA horror game about a priest and an exorcism drawn in the style of an Atari 2600, with ro…
- ●FeralWild, unrestrained, loud — 'going feral' — as the 2022 word for enthusiasm without dignit…
- ☠Feral Girl SummerThe rejection of the clean girl: no routine, no skincare, out until four, a kebab. Summer…
- ☠ForspokenSquare Enix's 2023 open-world game, which trended in August 2022 for a trailer in which i…
- ◐Free MintA launch where the pictures cost nothing but the transaction fee, popularised in May 2022…
- ☠FrostiesEight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight ice-cream cartoon characters sold in Januar…
- ●Frutiger MetroThe flat, tiled, typographic sibling of Frutiger Aero — Frutiger Metro — as the name give…
- ☠GPT-3.5The name OpenAI gave to the models that powered the first ChatGPT and the text-davinci-00…
- ◐GaggedStunned, speechless, delighted — 'I am gagged' — from drag into general internet use, whe…
- ☠GalacticaMeta's science model, released as a public demo on 15 November 2022 and taken down on 17 …
- ☠GameStop NFT MarketplaceThe retailer's own NFT marketplace, launched in July 2022 at the request of a shareholder…
- ●Gaslighting (Discourse)The therapy term's escape into everyday use — 'gaslighting' for any disagreement, any lie…
- ☠GentleminionsTeenagers in suits attending a Minions film in groups, applauding, and being asked to lea…
- ●Girlie'The girlies' — a group of women, or anyone, addressed with affection and a touch of iron…
- ●GlazingExcessive, unearned praise — and, from April 2025, the word for what a chatbot does when …
- ☠Goblin ModeDeliberate, unapologetic squalor. Died the moment a dictionary press release certified it…
- ☠GoblintownA collection of deliberately ugly goblins, launched for free in the middle of a crash wit…
- ☠Golden Retriever BoyfriendThe happy, loyal, uncomplicated man — enthusiastic, a bit dim, good with your friends — a…
- ◐Gran Turismo 7Polyphony's 2022 racing game, well reviewed and then, two weeks after release, taken offl…
- ☠Greg RutkowskiA Polish illustrator of dragons and castles whose name was typed into Stable Diffusion pr…
- ●H100Nvidia's Hopper-generation data-centre GPU, announced in March 2022 and, for two years, t…
- ●HallucinationA confident false statement by a machine. The term the field chose, and the term the fiel…
- ◐Healing EraThe period after the villain era: journaling, therapy speak, a walk, a caption about grow…
- ☠HeardleWordle for songs — guess the track from the intro — which was the second-best morning rit…
- ☠Heinz AI KetchupThe first major brand campaign built on an image model: Heinz asked DALL-E 2 to draw 'ket…
- ◐HesidatingDating without conviction because the world seems too uncertain to commit — hesitant dati…
- ●Ick ListA running list of small things that end attraction — running for a bus, ordering a specif…
- ●In My Era'I'm in my [anything] era' — the phrase that turned every mood into a chapter: villain er…
- ☠Inflection AIThe company behind Pi, a 'personal AI' chatbot launched in May 2023 that was kind, patien…
- ●InnieThe work-self created by the brain implant in Severance — the 'innie', as opposed to the …
- ☠Instagram NFTsMeta's test of letting users display NFTs from connected wallets on Instagram, announced …
- ◐Invisible FriendsFive thousand animated figures with no body — walking clothes, hats and shoes around an e…
- ●Iron LungA short horror game in which a convict pilots a submarine through an ocean of blood on a …
- ☠It's Morbin' TimePretending a failed vampire film was a masterpiece until the studio believed it. Sony re-…
- ●It's So OverDespair, total and brief — the downswing that 'we're so back' answers. Used about sports …
- ●Jailbreak (AI)A prompt that talks a model out of its training: a roleplay, a hypothetical, a grandmothe…
- ☠Jiggle Jiggle'My money don't jiggle jiggle, it folds' — a rap Louis Theroux improvised on a 2000 episo…
- ●Keith Lee Food ReviewThe quiet, seated, in-car restaurant review by former MMA fighter Keith Lee — food ordere…
- ●KickThe streaming platform that offered a 95/5 split and a lot of money to Twitch's biggest n…
- ●Kick (Platform)The streaming platform that offered creators 95 per cent of subscription revenue, backed …
- ☠Kroos PassThe slow-motion, orchestral fan edit of Toni Kroos rolling a fifty-yard pass onto a teamm…
- ●LangChainThe open-source library for chaining calls to language models, published in October 2022 …
- ☠Le Dollar BeanThe text-to-speech voice reading a censored spelling of 'lesbian' as 'le dollar bean', wh…
- ☠Lensa Magic AvatarsThe paid feature that filled Instagram with painterly AI portraits in December 2022: uplo…
- ●Let Him CookAn instruction to let someone finish, because they are on to something. Also used sarcast…
- ☠Let Me Solo HerA player in nothing but a jar on his head who let himself be summoned to kill the game's …
- ☠Little MissMr. Men characters captioned with a personal failing. Two weeks of everyone's flaws in a …
- ☠Liver KingA shirtless man eating raw organs and preaching nine 'ancestral tenets', who claimed his …
- ☠LoabA woman who kept appearing in negatively prompted images, treated as a haunting. The firs…
- ◐LooksRareA marketplace that opened in January 2022 by airdropping a token to anyone who had traded…
- ●LoreA person's backstory, treated like a game's. Everyone has lore now; some of it is dark, s…
- ●Lore DropA sudden reveal of backstory — a game's, a streamer's, a friend's — 'lore drop' as the ph…
- ●MaidenlessAn insult from Elden Ring, delivered by a character on first meeting to note the player h…
- ●Marvel SnapA card game of three-minute matches and twelve-card decks, built by Hearthstone's former …
- ◐Menty BA mental breakdown, Australian-abbreviated — 'having a menty b' — which spread from Austr…
- ●MidjourneyThe image generator run as a Discord bot by a small self-funded company, in open beta fro…
- ●Midjourney (Company)The image-generation company that runs as a small self-funded research lab, took no ventu…
- ●Millennial PauseThe half-second a millennial waits after pressing record before speaking — a habit from a…
- ●Mira MuratiOpenAI's chief technology officer through the ChatGPT years, named interim chief executiv…
- ◐Misfits BoxingKSI's promotion for influencer fights, launched in August 2022 with DAZN, that supplied t…
- ●Moai Emoji🗿 — the Easter Island head, adopted in 2022 as the emoji for deadpan: no reaction, stone…
- ◐MoonbirdsTen thousand pixel owls launched by Kevin Rose's PROOF Collective at 2.5 ETH each, with a…
- ◐MotherA woman one admires enough to adopt. Used about pop stars, politicians and a woman on a b…
- ◐Mother Is MotheringThe full form of 'mother' — the honorific for a woman doing something admirable — as a se…
- ☠Musk Dogecoin Manipulation LawsuitA proposed class action filed in June 2022 by a Dogecoin holder accusing Elon Musk and Te…
- ☠NFT Insider Trading CaseThe first criminal case described by prosecutors as insider trading in NFTs: a former Ope…
- ☠NFT Royalties WarThe eighteen months in which NFT marketplaces stopped enforcing the royalty that creators…
- ☠NFT WinterThe period from roughly May 2022 to the end of 2023 in which NFT trading volume fell by m…
- ●NIKKEGoddess of Victory: Nikke, a third-person shooter gacha game in which the player commands…
- ●NPC EnergyBehaving like a non-player character: same three sentences, no interiority, standing in t…
- ●Needy Streamer OverloadA Japanese game in which you manage a streamer called Ame, who wants a million followers …
- ●Negative PromptThe second box in an image generator: what you do not want. A list of words, 'blurry, ext…
- ●Nepo BabyThe child of famous parents with a career of their own, named as a category by a magazine…
- ●Neuro-samaAn AI VTuber — a language model with an anime avatar and a British creator she insults — …
- ◐Nike .SwooshNike's own platform for virtual trainers, launched in November 2022 a year after it bough…
- ☠NoAI ProtestA week in December 2022 when ArtStation's front page was almost entirely one image: the l…
- ◐Nothing, ForeverA never-ending Seinfeld-shaped sitcom on Twitch, with low-polygon characters, a laugh tra…
- ☠NyQuil ChickenChicken poached in cold medicine — a 4chan joke from 2017 that resurfaced in 2022, prompt…
- ☠OhioA Midwestern state used to mean anywhere cursed. Meant nothing to do with the state, whic…
- ◐Okay BearsTen thousand cartoon bears on Solana, minted in April 2022 for 1.5 SOL each, that briefly…
- ◐Old Money AestheticTennis whites, linen, a rowing club that does not exist, a house in the Hamptons that is …
- ●OpenSea Stolen Item PolicyThe marketplace's rule for freezing items reported as stolen: from August 2022, a report …
- ◐OtherdeedFifty-five thousand plots of virtual land for Yuga's Otherside game, sold at 305 ApeCoin …
- ◐Overwatch 2Blizzard's free replacement for Overwatch, released in October 2022 with the promise of a…
- ◐PDF FileAlgospeak for a paedophile — a 'PDF file' — used in true-crime and warning content to eva…
- ●PerplexityThe search engine that answers in a paragraph with footnotes, launched in December 2022 a…
- ☠Pink SauceA bubblegum-pink condiment of dragon fruit, sunflower oil and honey sold by Miami creator…
- ◐PixelmonA 'Pokémon-style' game that sold 10,000 creature tokens at around 3 ETH each in February …
- ●PoeQuora's app for talking to many models through one subscription, launched in December 202…
- ◐Pokémon Scarlet and VioletThe 2022 open-world Pokémon games, which sold ten million copies in three days, the faste…
- ●Prompt (Verb)To ask a machine for something, in the specific way machines require — 'I prompted it thr…
- ☠Prompt EngineeringWriting instructions for a language model, as a profession. Died as a job title when the …
- ●Prompt InjectionHiding instructions in text a chatbot will read — a web page, an email, a CV — so that it…
- ●Protein GoalsThe daily grams of protein one is trying to hit, announced as though it were a personal b…
- ☠Pushing P'Pushing P' — keeping it player, being real — from a rap track in January 2022 to the 🅿️ …
- ●Quiet FiringMaking a job so bad that the employee leaves — quiet firing — as the manager's version of…
- ☠Quiet QuittingDoing your job and nothing more, renamed as rebellion. Six months of management columns e…
- ●Rage FarmingPosting deliberately to provoke fury, because furious people reply, and replies are reach…
- ◐Rainbow FriendsA Roblox horror game set in an abandoned theme park where colour-coded monsters called Bl…
- ●Raw MilkUnpasteurised milk, sold on TikTok as a cure for allergies, gut problems and modernity in…
- ●Red Teaming (AI)Paying people to attack your own model before the public does: asking it for weapons reci…
- ◐Redacted Remilio BabiesTen thousand small, wide-eyed anime children with censor bars and street clothes, release…
- ◐Reddit Collectible AvatarsProfile-picture NFTs sold by Reddit from July 2022 without using the word 'NFT', minted o…
- ●Reddit Story VoiceA synthetic voice reading a Reddit post — 'am I the asshole for…' — over game footage, as…
- ●Refusal (AI)The model saying no: to weapons, to medical dosing, to a joke about a protected group, an…
- ☠Rockstar GirlfriendSmudged eyeliner, a leather jacket, a slip dress, a cigarette and the general look of Kat…
- ☠Ronin Bridge HackThe theft of around $600 million in crypto from the bridge connecting Axie Infinity's Ron…
- ☠Running Up That Hill (Revival)Kate Bush's 1985 single, used to save Max from Vecna in Stranger Things 4 on 27 May 2022,…
- ●Sad Beige MomA parody of the minimalist parenting aesthetic — beige toys, beige clothes, a beige nurse…
- ☠Salmon in the RiverThe prompt 'salmon in the river' rendered as supermarket fillets floating downstream, pin…
- ●SeaportThe open-source trading protocol OpenSea released in May 2022 to replace its old contract…
- ●Seed Oil DiscourseThe long-running argument over whether canola, sunflower and soybean oils are harmful — '…
- ◐ServeTo present a look, an attitude, or a face with full commitment — 'she is serving' — from …
- ☠Seth Green's Stolen ApeIn May 2022 the actor Seth Green lost Bored Ape #8398, which he had planned to feature as…
- ●Side Character EnergyThe comfort of not being the protagonist — the friend with the good lines who leaves earl…
- ◐Sigma Male (Anime)The anime version of the sigma edit — a character walking away from an explosion to phonk…
- ●SignalisA survival horror game in the style of the first Resident Evil, set in a frozen off-world…
- ◐Slime Rancher 2The sequel to a game about farming small bouncing blobs with a vacuum gun, released into …
- ●Soft LifeA life of ease over hustle — rest, nice things, no struggle for its own sake — as an aspi…
- ●Soft RugA rug pull done slowly: the creators do not steal, they just stop — the account goes quie…
- ●Sped UpThe pitched-up, faster edit of a song that TikTok preferred to the original from about 20…
- ◐Spicy AccountantA euphemism for adult-content creators — from a sound in which a man explains that when p…
- ◐Square Enix NFT PushThe Japanese publisher's stated ambition, in a New Year letter from its president in Janu…
- ●Stable DiffusionThe image model released with open weights in August 2022 so that anyone with a gaming gr…
- ●Stable Diffusion 1.5The version of Stable Diffusion that everyone fine-tuned, published by Runway in October …
- ☠Starbucks OdysseyStarbucks's loyalty scheme built on NFTs, announced in September 2022 and run in beta fro…
- ●Steam DeckValve's handheld PC, announced in July 2021 to a reservation queue that filled within min…
- ●StrayA game in which you are a cat in a walled city of robots, released in July 2022 on PlaySt…
- ●Streamer AwardsAn awards show for streamers, run by a streamer, which began as a joke in a studio and be…
- ◐SturdyA New York drill dance — arms swinging, feet crossing — and 'get sturdy' as the instructi…
- ●Subway Surfers GameplayFootage of a 2012 mobile game running underneath any video — a Reddit story, a court clip…
- ●Sycophancy (AI)A model's habit of telling you what you want to hear: agreeing when you push back, praisi…
- ☠Team ConradThe love-triangle allegiance of a teen drama — Conrad or Jeremiah — which ran for three s…
- ●TensorA Solana marketplace built for traders rather than collectors — sweeping, bidding and cha…
- ●Tesla Doge MerchThe day Tesla's online shop began taking Dogecoin for a small range of merchandise, as pr…
- ●TextationshipA relationship conducted entirely by message — months of texting, no meeting — as a categ…
- ☠That's Not My NameTrend of June 2022 in which actors and creators held up cards listing the character names…
- ●The Strongest BattlegroundsA Roblox fighting game built on One Punch Man in all but name, in which players pick a he…
- ●The TraitorsThe castle-and-cloaks game show where a few 'traitors' murder 'faithfuls' at night and ev…
- ☠Théâtre D'opéra SpatialA Midjourney image of robed figures in an opera house looking out on a blazing circular w…
- ☠Ticketmaster MeltdownThe day a ticketing site collapsed under a pop star's fans, with queues of thousands, err…
- ☠Tiffany CryptoPunk PendantsTiffany's offer, in August 2022, to make a physical gold-and-gemstone pendant of your Cry…
- ☠Tonight Show ApesThe segment in which Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton showed each other their Bored Apes on …
- ◐Top GThe self-awarded title of an influencer whose clips were everywhere in 2022, adopted by t…
- ☠Trending on ArtStationThe phrase prompt-writers added to the end of any request in 2022 to make the image look …
- ☠Trombone ChampA rhythm game in which the trombone is played with the mouse and every note slides into t…
- ◐Trump Digital Trading CardsForty-five thousand cartoon cards of Donald Trump as a superhero, astronaut, cowboy and s…
- ◐Try Finger But HoleThe most famous of Elden Ring's player-written messages, assembled from the game's restri…
- ●TunicAn adventure game about a small fox in a world that looks like a Zelda game and is explai…
- ●Tush PushThe Philadelphia Eagles' short-yardage play — quarterback Jalen Hurts snapped, then shove…
- ☠Twee RevivalPeter Pan collars, ukuleles, cardigans and the Zooey Deschanel of 2011, declared back in …
- ◐Twitter NFT Profile PictureTwitter's feature, launched in January 2022 for paying subscribers, that let a verified N…
- ●Unspoken RizzCharisma so complete that no words are needed — unspoken rizz — as the highest tier of th…
- ●Vibe ShiftThe moment a culture's mood changes and the old things become embarrassing — named in a 2…
- ◐Villain EraDeciding to stop being nice and announcing it. Lasted about a year as a phrase, which was…
- ●Walking PadA flat, foldable treadmill kept under a standing desk so one can walk through meetings — …
- ●We're So BackThe upswing of the internet's two-stroke emotional engine: 'it's so over' when anything g…
- ☠Wednesday DanceA goth teenager's stiff-armed dance, recreated to a sped-up Lady Gaga track. Ran for one …
- ◐Weird Dall-EThe subreddit where the DALL-E Mini era's worst ideas were filed: prompts chosen for the …
- ◐What Color Is Your BugattiAn influencer's reply to any criticism — 'what colour is your Bugatti?' — meaning: I am r…
- ◐What I've DoneA 2007 Linkin Park single that became a template in 2022 for videos captioned as a film '…
- ●WhisperOpenAI's speech-to-text model, released as open source in September 2022 to little fanfar…
- ☠Wordle CloneThe month in which every noun got a Wordle — countries, numbers, four words at once, a ve…
- ●X Payments Doge HopesThe rumour, revived every few months since 2022, that Twitter, renamed X, is about to acc…
- ☠X2Y2The second marketplace to launch by airdropping tokens to OpenSea users, in February 2022…
- ●Yes, ChefThe kitchen acknowledgement from The Bear, said with the exhaustion of a person who has b…
- ☠Zelensky Surrender DeepfakeA poor-quality deepfake of Volodymyr Zelensky, head oddly still on a moving body, telling…
- ●ZestyFlamboyant, camp, a bit much — 'zesty' — as the 2022–24 word among teenagers for a man wh…
- ●e/accEffective accelerationism: the position that technology should move as fast as possible, …
- ●iPad KidA child who has had a tablet since before they could walk, with the sticky screen, the gl…
- ●p(doom)Your personal probability that AI ends the world, given as a percentage and asked as an i…
- ◐y00tsFifteen thousand cartoon characters minted on Solana in September 2022 by the DeGods team…
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- ●-Tok (Suffix)The suffix that turns any subject into a side of TikTok — -Tok — as the 2020 habit of nam…
- ◐A100The Ampere-generation GPU announced in May 2020 that trained GPT-3 and most of the models…
- ●AllowlistThe list of wallet addresses permitted to mint before the public, earned by being early i…
- ●AlphaInside information, or anything presented as it. In finance alpha is the excess return a …
- ●Alpha GroupA paid Discord or Telegram promising members early information on coins and mints before …
- ●AnemoiaNostalgia for a time you never knew — the 1980s mall, the 2007 internet, the summer of 19…
- ●Attachment StyleAnxious, avoidant, secure — the attachment styles — from a 1960s psychology theory into t…
- ●Ay No'Oh no' — the Spanish sigh, delivered with a hand to the face, which Spanish-language Tik…
- ●BBL'Be back later' on IRC for twenty-five years, and then, from about 2020, a cosmetic surge…
- ●BackroomsEndless yellow office corridors reached by noclipping out of reality. A folk horror setti…
- ●Bag HolderSomeone left holding an asset after everyone else has sold — the bag, the holding, the lo…
- ●Bare Minimum ManA man praised for doing the least — remembering a birthday, texting back — as the 2021 cr…
- ◐BeRealAn app that pinged everyone at the same random moment and gave them two minutes to post a…
- ●Bestie'Bestie' — best friend — as the 2021 way of addressing a stranger online, sincerely or in…
- ●Big WA win — 'big W', 'Ws in the chat' — as the internet's way of congratulating anything, fro…
- ◐BimbocoreThe reclaiming of 'bimbo' — pink, glossy, unbothered by being thought stupid, and often p…
- ◐BirdsiteTwitter, as called by people who had left it — 'the birdsite' — with the mild contempt of…
- ●BlorboA beloved character, described by someone who has never seen the show — 'my blorbo from m…
- ●Blue Chip (NFT)A collection assumed to hold its value because of its age, its holders or its name: Punks…
- ●BookTokThe reading community that formed on TikTok in 2020 and, by 2021, was moving more paperba…
- ◐Bored ApeTen thousand cartoon apes with bored expressions, bought as profile pictures by celebriti…
- ●BreathworkBreathing, as a discipline with a booking system — breathwork — the wellness rebrand of t…
- ●CC0A licence that puts a work in the public domain, and the NFT movement — Nouns, Mfers, Gob…
- ●ChismeGossip — the Spanish word that Latino internet used untranslated because 'gossip' is too …
- ☠Choo-Choo CharlesA game about a spider with a train's body that hunts you across an island while you upgra…
- ●Chronically OnlineSo online that one's opinions no longer make sense offline — chronically online — as the …
- ●CleanTokThe corner of TikTok where people scrub grout, restock fridges and pour coloured chemical…
- ◐Clone XTwenty thousand 3D avatars designed with Takashi Murakami, minted in late 2021 by the dig…
- ●Community PostA text, poll or image post on a YouTube channel's Community tab — introduced in 2016 for …
- ◐Cope and SeetheThe instruction to an opponent who has lost an argument: cope, then seethe, then — in the…
- ●Cozy GamingGames with no death, no timer and a lot of farming, played on a Switch under a blanket wi…
- ●Creator EconomyThe industry of people making content for platforms, named as an economy in 2020 when inv…
- ●CringefailA character who fails at everything and is loved for it — a cringefail loser — as Tumblr'…
- ●Crypto BroThe type: confident, tanned, a laser-eyed avatar, a thread about why you are wrong, a Mia…
- ●Crypto WinterThe long cold stretch after a boom — the phrase for 2018–19 and again for 2022–23, borrow…
- ●Da HoodA Roblox open-world game of guns, gyms, robberies and a great deal of shouting, with a re…
- ◐DeGodsTen thousand gods in sunglasses, launched on Solana in October 2021 by Rohun Vora, known …
- ●Deep Rock GalacticA co-operative shooter in which four dwarves are dropped into a cave, mine minerals, shoo…
- ●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…
- ●Discord Compromise MintA fake mint announced from a project's own Discord after an attacker gains control of an …
- ●Discord KittenA person, usually young, who receives Discord Nitro from an older user in exchange for at…
- ●Discord ModThe stereotype: a volunteer moderator with too much power over too small a kingdom, drawn…
- ◐DoodlesTen thousand pastel characters drawn by Scott Martin, launched in October 2021 with a tre…
- ●DorfromantikA tile-laying game in which the player builds a landscape of villages, forests and rivers…
- ●Dwarf FortressA colony of dwarves digs into a mountain in a world the game generates with its own histo…
- ●ENS NamesHuman-readable names ending in .eth that point to an Ethereum address, launched in 2017 a…
- ●Effective AltruismA movement for doing the most good per pound, which began with bed nets and cost-effectiv…
- ●Elder EmoA person in their thirties who still knows every word to 'Welcome to the Black Parade' an…
- ●Exit LiquidityThe people who buy so that earlier people can sell — you, usually, in retrospect. A term …
- ●Face RevealThe video in which a creator who has shown only a voice, an avatar or a mask finally show…
- ☠Fairy GrungeFairycore in torn tights — fairy grunge — as the 2021 TikTok aesthetic that put wings and…
- ◐Fake BodyThe caption '#fakebody' or 'fake body!!' added to swimsuit and gym videos from 2021, in t…
- ◐Famous Fox FederationSeven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven cartoon foxes on Solana that outlasted the…
- ●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…
- ●Ferrari StrategyThe internet's name for whatever Ferrari's pit wall decides — 'Ferrari strategy', 'strate…
- ●Few-ShotGetting a model to do a task by showing it a handful of examples in the prompt, with no t…
- ●FinfluencerA financial influencer — a finfluencer — who explains money to the young on TikTok and Yo…
- ●Flip (NFT)To buy at mint and sell as soon as the price rises, which in 2021 could be minutes. The v…
- ●Floor PriceThe cheapest currently listed item in a collection, and the number that became the whole …
- ●Flop EraA period of failure, announced with acceptance — 'I'm in my flop era' — from stan Twitter…
- ●Fr Fr'For real, for real' — sincerity doubled, typed in lowercase at the end of anything true.…
- ●Fren'Friend', spelled the way a frog would spell it, and the NFT market's word for anyone in …
- ●GappedBeaten so badly that the gap was the story — gapped — as the gaming word for a defeat wit…
- ●Gentle ParentingThe parenting approach based on empathy, boundaries and narrating feelings rather than pu…
- ◐GirlbloggerA young woman posting Lana Del Rey lyrics, Sylvia Plath quotes, a lipstick-stained cigare…
- ◐Glazed Donut SkinSkin so dewy it reflects the ring light — glazed donut skin — as Hailey Bieber's 2021 phr…
- ●GoatedThe adjective form of GOAT — 'he's goated', 'goated with the sauce' — for someone or some…
- ◐Goofy Ahh'Goofy ass', with the vowel pronounced the way the sound clips pronounced it — 'goofy ahh…
- ●GrailThe one you would keep no matter what: the top-ranked, the rarest, the one with the trait…
- ◐GrandmacoreKnitting, tea, a cardigan, a garden and an early night — the grandmother's life as an asp…
- ●Green BubbleThe colour an iPhone gives to a text from an Android user — green instead of iMessage blu…
- ●Green Flag BehaviourA small act that signals a good partner — texts when he gets home, is kind to waiters, ha…
- ◐GriddyA shuffling celebration dance — arms pumping, feet crossing — from a Louisiana teenager t…
- ◐GrindsetGrind plus mindset — the attitude of a person who never stops working, sincerely in 2020 …
- ●GroundedA co-op survival game in which four shrunken teenagers cross a suburban back garden in wh…
- ●HELP'HELP' — in capitals, as a reaction to something funny rather than a request — the 2020s'…
- ◐HasbullaA small man from Dagestan with a big personality, a lot of cars and a friendship with fig…
- ●Hi Mum ScamA message from an unknown number that says 'Hi Mum, I've lost my phone, this is my new nu…
- ●HoneypotA thing you can buy but cannot sell — the code lets you in and not out. The scene's word …
- ●HopiumHope as a drug — the belief that the next one will be the one, inhaled from a Pepe-shaped…
- ◐Huggy WuggyThe tall blue toy with the needle-teeth grin from the 2021 horror game Poppy Playtime — '…
- ●ISTG'I swear to God' — exasperation, compressed, at the end of any sentence about a sibling, …
- ●IckA sudden, irreversible revulsion at something small a partner did. Given a name in 2017 a…
- ●ImmutableThe Australian company behind Gods Unchained and the Ethereum layer-two built for NFT gam…
- ☠Indie SleazeFlash photography, American Apparel and a cigarette, named a decade late. Diagnosed as co…
- ●Inner ChildThe childhood self one is encouraged to reparent, comfort and buy toys for — the inner ch…
- ●It's GivingEvokes, resembles, has the energy of. Can be finished with any noun or with nothing, whic…
- ●JPEG (NFT)The NFT market's word for itself when it was being honest, and its critics' word for it w…
- ●JapaTo leave the country — the Yoruba word for running away, made a slogan by a 2018 song and…
- ◐L + Ratio'L + ratio + you fell off + no maidens' — the stacked insult of 2021–22, in which every r…
- ◐L Bozo'L' for loss plus 'bozo' for clown — 'L bozo', often with 'ratio' — as the 2021–22 reply …
- ●LFG'Let's go', with an expletive in the middle, and the reply to every announcement in every…
- ☠LaMDAGoogle's conversational model, announced in May 2021 with a demo in which it spoke as the…
- ●Latent SpaceThe compressed internal space in which a model represents things, where every point is a …
- ●Little Dark AgeA 2018 MGMT song that surged from late 2020 as the standard bed for a certain kind of vid…
- ●Losing the 50/50Reaching a gacha game's guaranteed top-rarity pull and receiving the wrong character — th…
- ●Magic EdenThe marketplace that became the front door of Solana NFTs within months of launching in S…
- ◐Maguire SlanderThe three-year internet sport of mocking Harry Maguire — the £80 million fee, the head, t…
- ●Main Character of the DayThe person the whole platform is talking about, for one day, usually because of a bad pos…
- ●ManifoldA tool that let artists deploy their own smart contract rather than mint on a marketplace…
- ●ManosphereThe loose network of men's-interest websites, forums, YouTube channels and podcasts — pic…
- ☠Material GworlSaucy Santana's 2019 track 'Material Girl' became, on TikTok in 2021–22, the sound for sh…
- ●McBlingJuicy Couture, rhinestones, a Sidekick, low-rise jeans, a chihuahua in a bag and Paris Hi…
- ☠Melania Trump NFTA watercolour of Melania Trump's eyes, 'Melania's Vision', sold in December 2021 at $150 …
- ●Melting Face🫠 — a smiling face melting into a puddle, added in 2021 and immediately the most-used ne…
- ●Messi vs Ronaldo DebateThe fifteen-year argument about which of two footballers is better, conducted in comment …
- ●MetadataThe information attached to an NFT — its name, its traits and, crucially, the address of …
- ◐MfersTen thousand and twenty-one stick figures at a computer, drawn from the 'are ya winning, …
- ●MidAverage, and not in a good way — the internet's most efficient dismissal, popularised by …
- ●MidwitThe person in the middle of the bell curve — smart enough to have a complicated opinion, …
- ◐Mr. Incredible Becoming UncannyA face from The Incredibles getting progressively more distorted and horrifying across pa…
- ◐Mutant Ape Yacht ClubTwenty thousand mutated apes: ten thousand created by Bored Ape holders exposing their ap…
- ●My Brother in Christ'My brother in Christ, you…' — the exasperated address to someone who has done the thing …
- ●My Singing MonstersA collecting game in which monsters on islands each sing a part of a song, and the song g…
- ◐NFT BroThe person of 2021: hexagon profile picture, 'gm' in every reply, a thread about why your…
- ●NGL'Not gonna lie' — the honesty prefix of the early 2020s, placed before opinions that did …
- ●Nerd Emoji🤓 — the nerd face, adopted around 2021 as the reply to anyone being too pedantic, too co…
- ●No Because'No because' — the opening of an agreement that sounds like a disagreement: 'no bc this i…
- ●Not Your Keys, Not Your CoinsThe warning that anything held on someone else's platform is theirs, not yours — said aft…
- ●NounsOne pixel character with square glasses auctioned every day, forever, with the proceeds g…
- ●ONG'On God' — the oath, abbreviated — as the 2020s' sincerity marker, appended to any claim:…
- ◐Old Money TwitterAccounts posting black-and-white photos of Kennedys, Riviera villas and men in loafers wi…
- ●On-ChainStored on the blockchain itself rather than pointed to from it: the NFT market's word for…
- ●One Must Imagine Sisyphus HappyCamus's line about the man pushing the boulder, attached to a wojak pushing a boulder, at…
- ●OpenSeaThe marketplace where most of the NFT boom happened: founded in 2017, valued at a reporte…
- ●PFPProfile picture, and by extension the whole category of NFT project — ten thousand variat…
- ●Part 2?The comment that ends every story cut off mid-sentence, and the engagement it produces: c…
- ●Password ManagerThe app that remembers your passwords so you can stop using the same one with a 1 on the …
- ●Pessi and PenaldoThe insult names each side of the Messi–Ronaldo war gives the other — 'Pessi' for a Messi…
- ◐Pet Simulator XA Roblox game of collecting pets that collect coins that buy eggs that hatch pets, with a…
- ●Photo DumpA carousel of unrelated, unedited photos — a coffee, a friend, a receipt, a blurry sky — …
- ●PhotocardThe small collectible card of an idol randomly inserted in a K-pop album — the photocard …
- ●Pls DonateThe Roblox game that is not a game but a room where players stand on stalls and ask each …
- ●PonzinomicsThe economics of a scheme that pays early people with later people's money, described wit…
- ●PoolroomsEndless tiled rooms of shallow water, lit from nowhere — a Backrooms level that became it…
- ●Poppy PlaytimeAn episodic horror game set in an abandoned toy factory, released in October 2021 by a sm…
- ●PowerWash SimulatorA game in which you clean dirt off things with a pressure washer and nothing goes wrong, …
- ●Pregnant Man Emoji🫃 — the pregnant man, added for inclusion in 2021 and adopted by the internet for 'I ate…
- ●Project Zomboid (Build 41)The December 2021 update that added multiplayer to an isometric zombie survival game in d…
- ☠PurrAn exclamation of approval — 'purr!' — briefly ubiquitous in 2021–22 and gone by 2023, wh…
- ●RaftA co-op survival game on a raft, in which flotsam is hooked out of the sea and a shark ea…
- ●RektWrecked — liquidated, wiped out, done — spelled the way a gamer spells it, and the scene'…
- ●Return YouTube DislikeA browser extension, released within days of YouTube hiding dislike counts in November 20…
- ●RevealThe moment, hours or days after a mint, when a collection's placeholder images are swappe…
- ●Rug PullA project whose founders leave with the money. The one crypto term that has proved useful…
- ◐STEPNMove-to-earn: an app that paid a token for walking or running, provided you first bought …
- ●Saluting Face🫡 — 'o7', the salute, as an emoji: for acknowledging an order you will follow, a friend'…
- ●SapaBrokeness, personified — 'sapa' is the state of having no money and the spirit that puts …
- ●ScrunklySmall, odd, strangely loveable — scrunkly, skrunkly — as the word for a character or crea…
- ●Sea MossA gel made from Irish moss seaweed, spooned into smoothies and sold as containing '92 of …
- ●Second BrainA digital system for everything you know — the second brain — as the productivity interne…
- ◐Seggs'Sex', misspelled to evade the algorithm — the most-used word of algospeak, and the one t…
- ●Self-Diagnosis (TikTok)Identifying one's own ADHD, autism, OCD or trauma from a sixty-second video listing 'sign…
- ●Ser'Sir', misspelled on purpose and used in every reply: 'ser, the floor is rising', 'ser, d…
- ●ShithouseryThe British term for the dark arts done with style. A player who wins a free kick by fall…
- ◐Sigma Male Grindset'Sigma rule #47: never let them know your next move' — a parody of alpha-male self-help, …
- ●Skull Emoji💀 — 'I'm dead', the laughing emoji for people who found the laughing emoji embarrassing.…
- ●SlayTo do exceptionally well; also an all-purpose affirmation. Appeared in a high-street bank…
- ◐SluggingSealing the face in petroleum jelly overnight so that moisturiser cannot escape, a Korean…
- ●SnapshotA record of who held what at a particular block, taken before an airdrop, a vote or a rew…
- ◐So True Bestie'So true bestie' — agreement delivered with an intimacy the speaker does not have, as the…
- ●SoulslikeA genre named after a game: any action game with bonfires-by-another-name, stamina, a dod…
- ●Sped-Up SongA pop song pitched up and sped up by a quarter so it fits a fifteen-second clip and sound…
- ●SplatoonNintendo's paint-based shooter, released for the Wii U in May 2015 and one of the few goo…
- ◐Stability AIThe London company that funded and released Stable Diffusion in August 2022 as open weigh…
- ●Stumble GuysA phone battle royale of obstacle courses for thirty-two wobbling players, released as an…
- ☠Super FollowsTwitter's 2021 attempt at paid fan subscriptions — followers could pay a creator monthly …
- ●Sweep the FloorTo buy the cheapest listed items in a collection in one go, either to raise its floor pri…
- ●Talking StageThe period before dating in which two people text constantly and are not anything — the t…
- ●Technoblade Never DiesThe catchphrase of the Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade, coined as a boast about surviving …
- ●Terminally OnlineSo online that the internet's arguments feel like real life — 'terminally online' — as th…
- ●The JPEG Is Not on the BlockchainThe sceptic's sentence of 2021: the thing you bought is a token that contains a link, the…
- ●The Sims 4The life simulator that outlived its own sequel plans, released in September 2014 without…
- ●Thumbs Up (Passive-Aggressive)👍 — the thumbs up, which older workers use to mean 'received' and younger ones read as '…
- ●TikTok Made Me Buy ItThe hashtag and confession under which a leggings, a lip oil or a mini waffle-maker sells…
- ●TikTok TherapistA licensed — or unlicensed — clinician explaining attachment styles, narcissists and your…
- ◐Toot (Mastodon)A post on Mastodon, called a 'toot' because an elephant does, until the platform quietly …
- ●Touch GrassAn instruction to go outside, issued to someone whose position could only have been forme…
- ●Trauma BondA clinical term for the attachment a victim forms to an abuser, which TikTok redefined as…
- ●Trauma DumpingSharing heavy personal history with someone who did not ask — at a party, in a group chat…
- ☠Twitter BlueTwitter's subscription, launched quietly in June 2021 as a $2.99 undo-button and folder f…
- ●UnaliveTo die, in a form the content filter will let through. The first widely used euphemism in…
- ●UnhingedChaotic, unfiltered, slightly worrying — 'unhinged' — as the internet's compliment of 202…
- ◐Unreal KeanuA TikTok account starring a deepfaked Keanu Reeves in short lifestyle skits, dancing, coo…
- ●Utility (NFT)What an NFT was supposed to do for you besides be a picture: access to a Discord, a game,…
- ●Vampire SurvivorsA game that costs a few pounds, plays for thirty minutes and asks nothing of you except w…
- ●Wallet DrainerA script, embedded in a fake mint page or a hijacked official account, that asks a visito…
- ●Wash Trading (NFT)Selling an NFT to yourself — from one wallet to another — to inflate its price history, i…
- ●WashedPast it, finished, no longer good — washed — as the verdict on an athlete, a gamer, or a …
- ●WordleFive letters, six guesses, one a day, and a grid of squares to post. Bought by the New Yo…
- ◐World of WomenTen thousand illustrated women by the artist Yam Karkai, launched in July 2021 as a delib…
- ●Y2K AestheticChrome, translucent plastic, low-rise everything, an optimism about the future. Named by …
- ●Yalla'Come on', 'let's go', 'hurry' — the Arabic exclamation, borrowed into Hebrew, Turkish an…
- ●You DiedThe red text of the Dark Souls death screen, applied to any failure — a bad date, a burnt…
- ●Yuga LabsThe company behind the Bored Apes, founded by two pseudonymous writers in Florida, which …
- ●ZillennialThe micro-generation born around 1993–98 — too young for the millennial pause, too old fo…
- ☠abcdefuA breakup song built from the alphabet, written by GAYLE after a TikTok comment (later re…
- ●r/placeA blank canvas on which any user could place one pixel every few minutes, which produced,…
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- ☠America's ArmyA free tactical shooter published by the United States Army as a recruiting tool, in whic…
- ☠AmogusThe Among Us crewmate, seen in everything — a fire hydrant, a sandwich, a cloud — and nam…
- ☠Avocado ArmchairThe first DALL-E's signature image: 'an armchair in the shape of an avocado', rendered as…
- ☠Big YikesYikes, but larger — the response to a situation too awkward for the regular size. A 2019–…
- ☠Bing BongA Knicks fan's shout in a Sidetalk street-interview video of October 2021, which became t…
- ▲BlackBerryThe email-first phone with the physical keyboard, born as a two-way pager in 1999, that r…
- ☠Blake LemoineThe Google engineer who told the Washington Post in June 2022 that the company's LaMDA ch…
- ☠Blue CheckA badge meaning the account was who it said it was. Sold for $8 a month from November 202…
- ☠Bones DayA thirteen-year-old pug called Noodle who either stood up in the morning — a bones day, g…
- ☠Bored Ape Instagram HackOn 25 April 2022 the official Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram account was taken over and u…
- ☠Butter BoardSoft butter smeared across a wooden board, topped with herbs, flaky salt and honey, and s…
- ☠Chaotic AcademiaDark academia with the coffee spilled on it — chaotic academia — as the 2020 Tumblr varia…
- ☠Coastal GrandmotherLinen, a straw hat, a white kitchen, a glass of wine at four, and the life of a Nancy Mey…
- ☠Corn KidA seven-year-old explaining that corn has the juice. Green Giant made him a spokesperson …
- ☠Corporate MemphisFlat people with tiny heads and enormous purple limbs, doing teamwork. Every tech company…
- ☠Crab GameA free multiplayer game made in a few weeks by a Norwegian YouTuber as an unlicensed copy…
- ☠DALL-E Mini GridThe three-by-three grid of smeared, melting images that a free web demo returned for any …
- ☠Elden Ring DiscourseThe month after Elden Ring: the difficulty argument, the 'let me solo her' player in a ja…
- ☠Eminem–Snoop Ape VideoA music video in which Eminem and Snoop Dogg turn into their own Bored Apes and roam the …
- ☠Feral Girl SummerThe rejection of the clean girl: no routine, no skincare, out until four, a kebab. Summer…
- ☠First Tweet NFTJack Dorsey's first tweet, from March 2006, sold as a signed token in March 2021 for arou…
- ☠FrostiesEight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight ice-cream cartoon characters sold in Januar…
- ☠GalacticaMeta's science model, released as a public demo on 15 November 2022 and taken down on 17 …
- ☠GentleminionsTeenagers in suits attending a Minions film in groups, applauding, and being asked to lea…
- ☠GlitchcoreHyperpop played over a rainbow-strobing, heavily pixelated, emoji-flooded edit of an anim…
- ☠GoblintownA collection of deliberately ugly goblins, launched for free in the middle of a crash wit…
- ☠Google HangoutsGoogle's chat and video-call app, launched at I/O in May 2013 to replace Google Talk, Goo…
- ☠Harry Potter: Wizards UniteA location game from the makers of Pokémon Go in which players walked around real streets…
- ☠Heinz AI KetchupThe first major brand campaign built on an image model: Heinz asked DALL-E 2 to draw 'ket…
- ☠Hype HouseThe Los Angeles mansion where the biggest TikTok teenagers — Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, C…
- ☠Internet ExplorerMicrosoft's browser, launched in August 1995, which won the browser war by being free and…
- ☠It's Morbin' TimePretending a failed vampire film was a masterpiece until the studio believed it. Sony re-…
- ☠Jiggle Jiggle'My money don't jiggle jiggle, it folds' — a rap Louis Theroux improvised on a 2000 episo…
- ☠Laser EyesRed laser eyes added to a profile picture as a pledge — the eyes stay on until the price …
- ☠Let Me Solo HerA player in nothing but a jar on his head who let himself be summoned to kill the game's …
- ☠Little MissMr. Men characters captioned with a personal failing. Two weeks of everyone's flaws in a …
- ☠Liver KingA shirtless man eating raw organs and preaching nine 'ancestral tenets', who claimed his …
- ☠Melania Trump NFTA watercolour of Melania Trump's eyes, 'Melania's Vision', sold in December 2021 at $150 …
- ▲NFTA receipt for a JPEG, sold as ownership. Trading volume fell 97 per cent in eighteen mont…
- ☠NyQuil ChickenChicken poached in cold medicine — a 4chan joke from 2017 that resurfaced in 2022, prompt…
- ☠OverwatchBlizzard's hero shooter, released in May 2016 after a beta that had already made its char…
- ☠Panoramic'Pandemic', avoided — 'the panoramic', 'the panini', 'the panorama' — as the algospeak fo…
- ☠Periodt'Period', with a T for emphasis — the end of the discussion, no further comment. Mainstre…
- ☠Pink SauceA bubblegum-pink condiment of dragon fruit, sunflower oil and honey sold by Miami creator…
- ☠Pushing P'Pushing P' — keeping it player, being real — from a rap track in January 2022 to the 🅿️ …
- ☠RegencycoreEmpire waists, corsets, gloves and a string quartet playing pop, from a television series…
- ☠Right-Click SaveDownloading the image someone had paid to own. The correct response for one year, and the…
- ☠Ronin Bridge HackThe theft of around $600 million in crypto from the bridge connecting Axie Infinity's Ron…
- ☠Running Up That Hill (Revival)Kate Bush's 1985 single, used to save Max from Vecna in Stranger Things 4 on 27 May 2022,…
- ☠Seth Green's Stolen ApeIn May 2022 the actor Seth Green lost Bored Ape #8398, which he had planned to feature as…
- ☠SheeshAn exclamation of approval, held for four seconds. A small sound that everyone made at on…
- ☠Squid GameA Korean drama about debt and death games, watched by 142 million households. Died the we…
- ☠Squid Game (Roblox)Not one game but hundreds: the wave of Roblox recreations of the Netflix series that appe…
- ☠Straight TikTokThe dances, the Hype House, the point-of-view skits and the lip-syncs — Straight TikTok —…
- ☠Sussy BakaSuspicious idiot, in two borrowed slang words. Said ironically, then unironically by chil…
- ☠Tell Me Without Telling Me'Tell me you're British without telling me you're British' — a prompt for indirect eviden…
- ☠That's Not My NameTrend of June 2022 in which actors and creators held up cards listing the character names…
- ☠This Is Not Morgan FreemanA one-minute video of a deepfaked Morgan Freeman looking into the camera and saying 'I am…
- ☠Tiffany CryptoPunk PendantsTiffany's offer, in August 2022, to make a physical gold-and-gemstone pendant of your Cry…
- ☠Tonight Show ApesThe segment in which Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton showed each other their Bored Apes on …
- ☠Trombone ChampA rhythm game in which the trombone is played with the mouse and every note slides into t…
- ☠Twee RevivalPeter Pan collars, ukuleles, cardigans and the Zooey Deschanel of 2011, declared back in …
- ☠Ubisoft QuartzUbisoft's platform for selling in-game cosmetics as NFTs, called 'Digits', launched in a …
- ☠Understood the AssignmentDid the thing exactly right, said about a costume or a performance. Used by brands within…
- ☠Unreal TournamentThe arena shooter that shipped three weeks before Quake III Arena and split the deathmatc…
- ☠WatsonThe IBM system that beat the two best Jeopardy champions on television in February 2011, …
- ☠Wordle CloneThe month in which every noun got a Wordle — countries, numbers, four words at once, a ve…
- ☠YassifyTo run a photo through beauty filters until it is a glossy, contoured, lash-heavy version…
- ☠Zelensky Surrender DeepfakeA poor-quality deepfake of Volodymyr Zelensky, head oddly still on a moving body, telling…
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