Live your best life! Hot girl summer is a meme, originating with rapper Megan Thee Stallion, about feeling confident in who you are—and having fun and looking good while doing it. It often involves women…
The verb gape is recorded as early as the 1200s, first referring to the act of opening the mouth and later expanding to refer to anything opening wide. Which means gaping has, like so many…
Plogging lets you and the Earth get fitter at the same time. It's a win-win! Plogging is a Swedish exercise trend that combines jogging with picking up litter.
"Thish ish muh besht coding evuh (hiccup)!" The Ballmer Peak is a fictional level of drunkenness that supposedly heightens a computer programmer's skills.
Kvlt is a term used by and about fans of the black metal subgenre of heavy metal. Fans of black metal use kvlt of more obscure, earlier bands that exemplify the genre and to show their…
Kappa is the name of , an emote used in chats on the streaming video platform Twitch. It is often used to convey sarcasm or irony or to troll people online.
On the social media app TikTok, #AccidentalMusic is an internet trend where users record and share videos (using that hashtag) of them making music out of sounds from everyday objects.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. Shoulda is simply a spelling of should have (or should've), based on a common, contracted, colloquial pronunciation of this modal verb phrase.
Going viral on Twitter in April 2019, the Heart Rate Meme uses ASCII computer characters to illustrate a normal heart rate followed by an elevated heart rate. The elevated heart rate is meant as a humorous…
Ready to get down—and realize your full potential? Funkentelechy is a 1977 song by funk band Parliament from their album Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome. The playful coinage means "realizing one's potential funkiness."
Passive-Aggressive Daenerys is a meme featuring a still image of Daenerys Targaryen from the TV series of Game of Thrones with a squinting, pinched, dismissive smile. The image is humorously paired with comments made in…