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- ◐AI Fruit Love IslandAn AI-generated reality show in which anthropomorphic fruit couple up, argue, and get vot…
- ◐AI Impact SummitThe AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi, India, from 16 to 21 February 2026, the latest in…
- ●AI Personalised PricingA study in the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, published 13 April 2026, finding t…
- ◐Amelia from PathwaysA character from an educational game who was lifted out, redrawn with AI into a waifu, an…
- ●Antimatter Road TripThe first transport of antimatter by road, in March 2026, when an estimated 100 to 1,000 …
- ●Arknights: EndfieldAn action RPG by Hypergryph, a spin-off of the 2019 game Arknights, released on 22 Januar…
- ◐Artemis IINASA's crewed flight launched on 1 April 2026, the first beyond low Earth orbit since Apo…
- ●Assad SentencedThe sentencing on 11 August 2026 by a court in Damascus of nine former Syrian officials, …
- ☠BET+ ShutdownThe closure of the BET+ streaming service, announced by Paramount Skydance on 13 March 20…
- ◐Bachelorette PulledABC's removal of The Bachelorette from its schedule in March 2026, three days before the …
- ●Backrooms (Film)The 2026 A24 science-fiction horror film that turned the Backrooms creepypasta into a fea…
- ●Bad Bunny HalftimeThe first Super Bowl halftime performed largely in Spanish, and the internet's month of r…
- ●Bald George CostanzaA redesign trend in which George Costanza — already bald — is re-imagined as everyone els…
- ◐Balen Shah LandslideThe result of Nepal's general election on 5 March 2026, in which the Rastriya Swatantra P…
- ◐BangarangaThe song with which the Bulgarian contestant Dara won the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in…
- ●Bartiromo OutFox News's announcement in September 2026 that Maria Bartiromo was no longer employed by …
- ●Beast LawThe principle, declared after a bison tossed a tourist at Yellowstone and hundreds of sna…
- ●Bedtime StackingThe practice of piling every evening ritual on top of each other — magnesium, mouth tape,…
- ●Bennett–Brassard Turing AwardThe award of the 2025 Turing Award to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, announced o…
- ◐Big Arch Burger TestA fictional scenario in which the McDonald's CEO personally taste-tests the Big Arch burg…
- ●Bobi Wine AbductionThe abduction of opposition candidate Bobi Wine during Uganda's general election of 15 Ja…
- ●BrdyshchA fish–dog hybrid from Soviet brainrot who, in the narration, held office and 'banned hun…
- ●Bro Failed One TestA format mocking the total collapse a person stages after a single bad grade: dramatic mu…
- ◐Bulgaria Joins the EuroBulgaria's adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026, making it the twenty-first member of t…
- ●Burnham EraThe period beginning 20 July 2026, when Andy Burnham was appointed Prime Minister of the …
- ●Can You Send Me 30K?A viral fan animation for Arknights: Endfield created by Simi and Chapchap, listed by Wik…
- ●Capture of MaduroThe US operation of 3 January 2026 in which airstrikes in Venezuela were followed by the …
- ●Cash CatA community memecoin on Robinhood Chain built on one fact: before it was Robinhood, the a…
- ●Ceuta CrossingThe events of 30 July 2026, when approximately 80,000 people entered the Spanish enclave …
- ●Charlie's InfernoThe most-listened track by the Brooklyn band That Handsome Devil, from their 2011 album T…
- ●CheremshaA rabbit–lion hybrid and the mascot of Soviet brainrot: national symbol, cosmonaut, facto…
- ◐Ciudad de la PazThe city that became the capital of Equatorial Guinea on 2 January 2026, replacing Malabo…
- ◐Clavicular MoggedAn incident at a party in which Clavicular — the looksmaxxing figure whose whole brand is…
- ●Cockroach Janta PartyAn Indian youth-based satirical political movement, abbreviated CJP and called the Cockro…
- ◐Comcast SplitComcast's announcement in June 2026 of a plan to divide itself into two companies, keepin…
- ●Cortisol SpikeA stress-hormone meter — a bar graphic that shoots into the red — pasted over any moment …
- ◐Cory in the House Review BombThe second positive review-bombing of the 2008 Nintendo DS game Cory in the House, follow…
- ☠Cyprus EU PresidencyCyprus's six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, which began on 1 Janu…
- ●DLSS 5 Off / OnA two-panel parody of Nvidia's AI upscaling: 'DLSS 5 off' shows a normal game frame, 'DLS…
- ●Data Centre 945 TWhA figure from a United Nations University report of 3 June 2026 estimating that global el…
- ☠Davos 2026The fifty-sixth World Economic Forum, held in Davos from 19 to 23 January 2026. Five days…
- ◐Dictator MbappéEdits of Kylian Mbappé in the iconography of a strongman leader — balcony, sunglasses, ba…
- ●Director ChristofChristof from The Truman Show, in the control room, cueing the next inconvenience: the bu…
- ●Donald Trump the BuffaloAn albino water buffalo raised on a farm in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, which went viral in …
- ●Doorbell ChudA man filmed by a doorbell camera during a home break-in whose face and posture matched t…
- ◐Drake Triple DropDrake's release on 15 May 2026 of Iceman alongside two surprise albums, Maid of Honour an…
- ●Drooling CatA blurry cat, mouth open, drooling slightly, with the expression of an animal that has st…
- ●Du Bist Gut Genug'You are good enough', sung in a wobbling falsetto on a German track released in late May…
- ◐ESPYs 2026The 2026 ESPY Awards, aired on ESPN in July from the David H. Koch Theater in New York an…
- ●Ebola Emergency 2026The World Health Organization's declaration on 16 May 2026 that an outbreak of Ebola in t…
- ◐Eclipse Europe 2026The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026, visible in parts of Europe and the first on th…
- ●Egg a Day StudyA study in the Journal of Nutrition, published 17 April 2026, finding that eating one egg…
- ◐El Mencho OperationThe military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, on 22 February 2026, in which 62 peop…
- ●El Niño 2026The El Niño event declared by NOAA on 11 June 2026 in the tropical Pacific, with a foreca…
- ●Emmys 2026The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on NBC in September 2026 from the Peacock Theater …
- ●Epstein Files ReleaseThe release to the public on 30 January 2026 of three million pages of the Epstein files,…
- ●European Heatwave 2026The 2026 European heatwaves, which began on 22 May and brought record temperatures and th…
- ◐Evan BurgerA man called Evan Burger, and the internet's inability to leave a name like that alone. T…
- ●Excuse Me SirA series of edits built on Billy Butcher's 'excuse me, sir' — the politeness of a man abo…
- ●Family Guy Running Down StairsA clip of the Griffin family thundering down the basement stairs, used for any group flee…
- ●Ferran Torres 106th MinuteThe only goal of the 2026 World Cup final, scored by Ferran Torres in the 106th minute of…
- ●Five Nights at Epstein'sA parody of Five Nights at Freddy's in which the player is trapped on Epstein Island and …
- ●Flamingo RevolutionThe name given to the major protests that erupted in Albania from 31 May 2026, after smal…
- ◐Fox Buys RokuFox's announcement in June 2026 that it planned to acquire Roku, the streaming device and…
- ●Funky EhhhA Gumball sound — a drawn-out 'funky ehhh' — used as the sting for anything slightly off:…
- ◐Glasgow 2026The Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 23 July to 2 August 2026. A multi-…
- ●Great Fandom TruceThe moment in August 2026 when fandoms that had spent years fighting each other agreed, b…
- ●Gucci MortyAn edit of Morty from Rick and Morty in head-to-toe Gucci, with a good haircut and an exp…
- ●Gugu Gaga PenguinA meme built on an AI-generated video edit of the Endministrator, the player character of…
- ●Haaland Majin BuuErling Haaland at the 2026 World Cup, compared frame-for-frame to Majin Buu — the pink, c…
- ◐Happy Birthday DanielAn edit format in which an increasingly unhinged sequence of clips is revealed to be a bi…
- ●Hawak Mo ang BeatA song by OPM Music Studio, first released in 2025, which became hugely popular across so…
- ●He Is 20 Years OldA reaction to the media's inability to write a sentence about Kane Parsons — the Backroom…
- ◐Hejaz Railway RevivalThe agreement signed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia on 9 June 2026 to revive the Hejaz railwa…
- ●Hermit Purple FenceA JoJo's scene in which Joseph Joestar braces for a car and hits a spiked fence instead, …
- ●Homer Drops His DonutHomer, hearing something, letting a donut fall from his hand in slow motion. The disappoi…
- ●Homer Let the Barts OutAn AI-generated song and video in which Homer Simpson releases dozens of Bart clones on S…
- ●Hound Dog RemixA sped-up, bass-heavy remix of 'Hound Dog' that became April 2026's transition sound — th…
- ●I Just Hit the JackpotAn anime-rap chorus from GameboyJones used as the soundtrack to any small win presented a…
- ●I Talked to Mitch on the PhoneA format born of senators lining up to confirm that Mitch McConnell was alive: 'I talked …
- ●I Will No Longer Be Carrying Photo IDA Sue Sylvester line from Glee — the announcement of a woman who believes she is now famo…
- ●I'm Good BroThe caption on a screenshot of two YouTube trailers for Pizza Movie edited together, whic…
- ◐Iceman MemeThe run of fan jokes ahead of Drake's ninth album Iceman, released 15 May 2026, imagining…
- ◐India's Third T20 TitleIndia's win over New Zealand in the final of the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup on 8 March 2026…
- ●Indian Fast BreederIndia's 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor, which attained first criticality on 6 Apr…
- ●Interstellar SugarThe detection of erythrulose molecules near the centre of the Milky Way, announced on 13 …
- ●Iran WarThe war that began on 28 February 2026 when Israel and the United States attacked Iran, k…
- ☠Islamabad MemorandumThe fourteen-point agreement between the United States and Iran, announced and signed bet…
- ●It's a ClockThe Catching Fire line about the arena being a clock, sped up and mouthed along with enor…
- ◐Italian Referendum NoThe result of the Italian constitutional referendum of 22–23 March 2026, in which voters …
- ●Japan Footsteps CopypastaA wall of text claiming Japan converts commuters' footsteps into electricity, escalating …
- ●Jax, Look, I Know We Don't Get AlongA template from The Amazing Digital Circus: a character opens with 'Jax, look, I know we …
- ●JimothyA wild raccoon from Seattle's Ballard neighbourhood with short-spine syndrome, which give…
- ●Josh Kerr's MileThe mile world record set by British runner Josh Kerr at the London Athletics Meet on 18 …
- ●Just the Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix)The resurgence in 2026 of Milky's 2002 song Just the Way You Are, driven by a remix from …
- ◐Keiko WinsKeiko Fujimori's narrow victory over Roberto Sánchez in Peru's presidential runoff on 7 J…
- ●Kenan on AGTKenan Thompson's return to America's Got Talent as a guest judge in September 2026, filli…
- ●Kids' Choice on CBSThe 2026 Kids' Choice Awards, simulcast on CBS and Nickelodeon from Los Angeles in Septem…
- ◐Kim Re-electedThe re-election of Kim Jong Un as General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea on 22 …
- ●King Haakon VIIIThe regnal name of Norway's new king, who succeeded on 28 August 2026 on the death of his…
- ●Kirigiri ExecutionA Danganronpa scene of a character being crushed by machinery, repurposed as the exact im…
- ●La PeaceKai Cenat, on stream with Speed, reading 'lapis lazuli' as 'la peace'. Within days he had…
- ●Lab-Grown OesophagusThe first lab-grown oesophagus, reported on 20 March 2026 by scientists from Great Ormond…
- ◐Le Mans 2026The 24 Hours of Le Mans run on 13 and 14 June 2026. One day of racing, one night of peopl…
- ◐Lighter (World Cup Song)'Lighter', by Jelly Roll and Carín León, produced by Cirkut, the first single from the of…
- ●Marge Kept the Lisas InThe inverse of 'Homer Let the Barts Out': Marge, calm and competent, preventing a swarm o…
- ●Married Next YearA 2026 meme listed by Wikipedia among internet memes of the year, which redirects to the …
- ●Mbappé SpecialAsked about his signature dish, Kylian Mbappé said the 'Mbappé special' was 'nothing'. Th…
- ●Miku Custody BattleWorld Cup matches recast as custody hearings over Hatsune Miku: each country's fan-made '…
- ◐Milan-Cortina 2026The Winter Olympics held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February 202…
- ●Misery (Pupsies)A song by the American singer Pupsies, stylised as misery. with a full stop, released on …
- ●MoltbookA social network where the users were AI agents and the humans could only watch: bots pos…
- ◐Mottley Clean SweepMia Mottley's victory in the Barbados general election of 11 February 2026, in which her …
- ●MullallySarah Mullally, who on 28 January 2026 became the first woman to hold the office of Archb…
- ●Multilingual Brain AgeA study presented at the FENS Forum on 6 July 2026 finding that speaking several language…
- ☠Munich Security Conference 2026The 62nd Munich Security Conference, held from 13 to 15 February 2026. Three days of spee…
- ◐Musk TrillionaireThe day Elon Musk became the first US dollar trillionaire, 12 June 2026, on the back of t…
- ●NaoeroThe official name of the country formerly listed as Nauru, adopted on 30 July 2026, when …
- ●Naoya Hair FlipA single panel of Naoya Zenin flipping his hair mid-fight, redrawn with every character w…
- ●Nations ChampionshipA new rugby union competition whose inaugural Southern Hemisphere Series ran from 4 to 18…
- ●New START ExpiresThe expiry on 5 February 2026 of the New START nuclear arms treaty between the United Sta…
- ●Nick Wilde Scuba DanceA short clip of Nick Wilde in scuba gear doing a small, pleased dance, cut from Zootopia …
- ◐Nickelodeon Animation FoldedParamount Skydance's announcement in April 2026 that Nickelodeon Animation Studio would n…
- ●Nietzschean PenguinA penguin who has read Nietzsche and is not okay — a mascot built on an existential bird …
- ●Niu LaiA low-budget Chinese animated film about a heroic cow whose animation is so wrong that cl…
- ◐Obsession: The Sugar-Coated TrapAn anti-drug promotional video released in 2026 by Hong Kong's Correctional Services Depa…
- ●Ok PunchThe 'okay' that precedes the punch — the calm, final acknowledgement that talking is over…
- ◐Okay Punch KidA student who calmly warned a man defending an ICE poster that there would be consequence…
- ●Olive Garden N64A fake Nintendo 64 game set in an Olive Garden — low-poly breadsticks, a fog-of-war salad…
- ●OpenClawAn open-source assistant that ran on your own machine, read your messages and did your er…
- ◐Operation Arctic EnduranceThe operation launched by Denmark on 14 January 2026, sending European troops to Greenlan…
- ◐Orbán LosesThe result of Hungary's election of 12 April 2026, in which Viktor Orbán lost in a landsl…
- ●Palm Beach PeteThe nickname of Peter Bart Simel, born 1955, an American social media influencer and poli…
- ●Petal Chair ChoreoA chair-hopping dance from the 'Petal' video, recreated on TikTok with outfit transitions…
- ●Petra ParkerA fan-art trend reimagining Spider-Man as Petra Parker, a trans woman, sparked by a singl…
- ●PetrovichThe archetypal Soviet mechanic of Soviet brainrot — a human, unusually, who can fix anyth…
- ●Pirate GasterW.D. Gaster — Deltarune's most-theorised absence — drawn as a pirate, for reasons the fan…
- ●Pizza MovieA film by Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher starring Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone and Lu…
- ◐Poland Volleyball Nations LeaguePoland's win in the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League final on 2 August 2026 in Ningbo…
- ●Punch the MonkeyA small monkey at Ichikawa Zoo who carried a plush orangutan everywhere and was routinely…
- ◐Queen Latifah AMAsThe 52nd American Music Awards, aired on CBS in May 2026 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena …
- ◐Radev ReturnsThe result of Bulgaria's election on 19 April 2026, in which the Progressive Bulgaria coa…
- ●Raúl Castro IndictedThe indictment of Raúl Castro by the United States on 20 May 2026 in connection with the …
- ●Reasons to Get a BobA hard-cut list format set to 'FREAKED OUT', in which creators enumerate reasons to cut a…
- ◐Red v Blue School WarsA 2026 viral phenomenon centred on London in which TikTok and Snapchat posts promoted fig…
- ●Reginald Skulinski EatingA still from Monster House of Reginald Skulinski eating while staring directly at you, de…
- ●Rob JettenPrime Minister of the Netherlands from 23 February 2026, sworn in at the head of a minori…
- ●Roman Space TelescopeThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched by NASA on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on 30 Au…
- ◐Romo Steps BackCBS Sports's announcement in July 2026 that lead NFL analyst Tony Romo had stepped back, …
- ●Ross 318 bA candidate temperate super-Earth reported in a preprint on 11 May 2026, orbiting in the …
- ●Rubin's 11,000 AsteroidsThe announcement in April 2026 that preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory h…
- ●Russia Back at the OlympicsThe decision of the International Olympic Committee on 7 July 2026 to lift its ban on the…
- ◐Sagrada Família TowerThe blessing of the Sagrada Família's tallest tower by Pope Leo XIV in Barcelona on 10 Ju…
- ●Say Wallahi BroIShowSpeed, wet-eyed, demanding 'say wallahi bro' — swear to God — from someone who has j…
- ◐Scientology RunsA speedrunning-style trend in which creators walked into Scientology centres — the Hollyw…
- ●Semenyo ChantThe 2026 fan chant for Manchester City striker Antoine Semenyo, set to the tune of Milky'…
- ●Sharmaine, Vanessa and MelanieThree fictional characters from a 2026 viral meme that began in comedic TikTok skits by t…
- ●She Gon Call Me Baby BooA lyric from What You Is by YoungBoy Never Broke Again and Mellow Rackz, released 9 Septe…
- ●Simi and ChapchapThe two creators credited with the viral Arknights: Endfield fan animation Can You Send M…
- ●Socrates SkeletonA series of AI videos about a time-travelling skeleton who keeps ending up in Ancient Gre…
- ●Somebody Get These Beggars Out of HereA Robert Pattinson line delivered with the bored authority of a man who has never had to …
- ☠Sora ShutdownThe closure of OpenAI's flagship Sora app and API, announced on 24 March 2026. The app sh…
- ●Soul Train Awards ReturnThe return of the Soul Train Music Awards to television in September 2026, simulcast on B…
- ●Soviet BrainrotAbsurdist AI videos of Soviet life — citizens swimming in reactors, eating hazardous mate…
- ●SpaceTimeA community memecoin and self-described archival project on Robinhood Chain commemorating…
- ◐SpaceX IPOThe initial public offering of SpaceX on 12 June 2026, the listing that made Elon Musk th…
- ●Spider-Man Ceiling TrendA pose trend: body angled diagonally, one arm extended up, filmed so that you appear to b…
- ●SpudCellsA type of artificial cell publicly announced in July 2026 under the name SpudCells. The r…
- ◐Starmer ResignsKeir Starmer's announcement on 22 June 2026 that he would resign as Prime Minister of the…
- ●Station StudiosThe current YouTube identity of ImJayStation, the Canadian prank YouTuber Jason Ethier, k…
- ◐Strait of Hormuz BypassDuring a tense week for shipping in March 2026, the internet drew increasingly stupid alt…
- ●SyomgaA rabbit–tiger hybrid from Soviet brainrot who lives inside radiators and heats the apart…
- ◐Takaichi LandslideThe result of Japan's general election of 8 February 2026, in which Prime Minister Sanae …
- ●Thank You... Chainsaw ManA meta-joke from the final chapter of Chainsaw Man, in which a character is thanked by na…
- ●The Big YahuA 2026 nickname meme for Benjamin Netanyahu that circulated during the Iran war. Wikipedi…
- ●The DiscombobulatorA secret weapon Donald Trump said was used in the Venezuela intervention to jam Venezuela…
- ●Thragg Panel RedrawAn Invincible cover of Thragg and the Viltrumites standing in a wall of muscle and menace…
- ●Time Balance DepartmentA phrase from Devsisters' Cookie Run that circulated as a meme in 2026, usually alongside…
- ●Timekeeper CookieA character from Devsisters' Cookie Run mobile games who became a meme in early 2026. The…
- ●Tomer White GlassesThe nickname of Tomer Shlomi, born 23 February 1983, an Israeli man who became a viral fi…
- ●Train DogA crude edit of a golden retriever's head on the front of a steam locomotive, panting in …
- ●Tô Lâm PresidentThe election of Tô Lâm, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, as the count…
- ◐UAE Leaves OPECThe departure of the United Arab Emirates from OPEC on 1 May 2026, ending six decades of …
- ●US Leaves the WHOThe formal withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization on 22 Janua…
- ●Veronika the CowA Brown Swiss cow named Veronika, reported in January 2026 as the first known example of …
- ●Viking RowThe Norwegian football chant in which a whole stand rows an invisible longship: a horn so…
- ◐Wadagni LandslideThe result of Benin's presidential election on 12 April 2026, won by the independent cand…
- ●We Had ChatGPT Make Us a ScriptA format in which a friend group performs, deadpan, a scene written by a chatbot — every …
- ●Welcome to Fortnite SheldonA Young Sheldon scene in the garage, re-cut so that Sheldon is being welcomed to Fortnite…
- ●Wobbly InvincibleFan animations of Invincible characters made with cheap tweening, so that everyone wobble…
- ◐Women's T20 World Cup 2026The Women's T20 World Cup played in England and Wales from 12 June to 5 July 2026 and won…
- ◐World Baseball Classic 2026The World Baseball Classic held in Japan and the United States from 5 to 17 March 2026. T…
- ◐World Cup 2026The FIFA World Cup held across sixteen host cities in Canada, Mexico and the United State…
- ●Your AI Slop Bores MeA website that flips the chair: you play the AI, answering human prompts with text or dra…
- ●Your Bra Strap Is ShowingA redraw trend from a comic in which a character, told their bra strap is showing, respon…
- ●Écône ConsecrationsThe consecration of four bishops by members of the Society of St Pius X at Écône, Switzer…
Peaked in 2026 10
- ●2026 Is the New 2016A New Year's resolution the internet made for itself: bring back 2016 — flower-crown filt…
- ●Claude CodeAnthropic's coding agent that lives in the terminal rather than an editor, released as a …
- ●Cloud DancerPantone's colour of 2026 — an off-white — announced in December 2025 and received by the …
- ●Great Meme ResetA movement, half serious, to reset meme culture on 1 January 2026: retire the AI slop and…
- ●Kwebbelkop LaughA wheezing, collapsing laugh from streamer YourRAGE that TikTok decided belonged to Dutch…
- ●NanoshipA relationship so small it never happened: eye contact on a train, a shared laugh in a qu…
- ●Redraw TrendA panel, frame or photo redrawn by hundreds of artists with their own characters — the Fr…
- ●Renaissance Painting MemeAny photograph of a crowd, a pitch or a brawl with the composition of a Baroque painting,…
- ●Skeleton Banging on ShieldA looping clip of a Skyrim skeleton hammering its sword against its shield, overlaid with…
- ●Son MemeA photograph of Anthony Mackie smirking, captioned 'son 😭😭😭' — the face of a parent wh…
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- ☠AnthemBioWare's flying-suit shooter, released in February 2019 after a 2017 trailer that promis…
- ☠BET+ ShutdownThe closure of the BET+ streaming service, announced by Paramount Skydance on 13 March 20…
- ☠Character.AI LawsuitA wrongful-death suit filed in Florida in October 2024 by the mother of a fourteen-year-o…
- ☠Cyprus EU PresidencyCyprus's six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, which began on 1 Janu…
- ☠Davos 2026The fifty-sixth World Economic Forum, held in Davos from 19 to 23 January 2026. Five days…
- ☠GPT-4oThe model behind the flirty, giggling voice demo of May 2024, the Scarlett Johansson stat…
- ☠Islamabad MemorandumThe fourteen-point agreement between the United States and Iran, announced and signed bet…
- ☠Italian BrainrotA shark in trainers, a coffee cup ballerina, a crocodile bomber, narrated in fake Italian…
- ☠LabubuA toothy elf hung from a handbag, bought blind. The queue outside Pop Mart was the meme; …
- ☠Munich Security Conference 2026The 62nd Munich Security Conference, held from 13 to 15 February 2026. Three days of spee…
- ☠Performative MaleA man with a tote bag, a matcha and a feminist paperback held cover-out. Contests to find…
- ☠Prompt EngineeringWriting instructions for a language model, as a profession. Died as a job title when the …
- ☠SigmaA lone wolf above the hierarchy, or a kid saying 'what the sigma'. Meant a personality ty…
- ☠Sora ShutdownThe closure of OpenAI's flagship Sora app and API, announced on 24 March 2026. The app sh…
- ☠Stranger Things FinaleThe end of a show that began in 2016, released in three parts across the 2025 holidays wi…
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