Emphasis — wrapping a ✨phrase✨ in sparkles to mark it as ironic, twee or air-quoted.

An ongoing conflict or grudge between people or groups.

A Philadelphia street dance style, and the adjective for doing something with force and confidence.

A suffix attached to adjectives for emphasis, as in "goofy ahh" or "weird ahh".

An abbreviation meaning roughly "this stuff is annoying me" — an expression of irritation.

A stylised way of saying "type of thing" — an all-purpose agreement or emphasis tag.

Excessively praising someone to the point of embarrassment.

An unflattering lookalike — someone who resembles you but worse.

Unattractive, or looking rough — a blunt insult about appearance.

Visibly outclassing someone in attractiveness simply by standing near them.

Systematically maximising your physical attractiveness through routines, grooming and sometimes surgery.

Low-quality AI-generated content produced in bulk to fill feeds and search results.

A mocking term for AI systems, robots and chatbots.

An Italian brainrot character based on an Indonesian Ramadan wake-up call.

A family of AI-generated characters with nonsense pseudo-Italian names and surreal backstories.

Pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth, claimed to define the jawline — and a gesture for staying silent.

Taking a portion of a friend's food as an informal levy.

A YouTube animated series about singing heads in toilets fighting camera-headed humanoids.

Content so repetitive and low-substance it feels like it's degrading your brain — and the slang that comes out of it.

A placeholder that became a joke — the literal words left in the caption field of a meme template.

Content that is sincerely kind or heartwarming, in contrast to irony-heavy internet humour.

A request to save the last few seconds of a livestream because something notable just happened.

A dismissive reply to hype about an impending dramatic event, betting that it won't materialise.

A cartoon dog in a sweater and jeans, used to represent unbothered calm.