Each year, the internet births a new lexicon, one that's as fast-moving and unpredictable as the online trends that fuel it.

Memes referencing Ohio have become a laughing stock among Gen. Alpha. Here's how it started and what rhe 'Ohio' meme means.

“When it’s treated as a meme, when it’s obtrusive, when it doesn’t fill a gap, then we use the slang word and just discard it,” he says, which is why the internet’s tendency to broadly ...

While the kids communicate easily amongst themselves, older generations from millennials to Gen Z have called their slang out for ... "The essence of the meme was all the weird, cringy, wild ...

Before deriod went viral as a popular slang on TikTok in April 2025, men's mood swings were jokingly called out during the "Sassy Man Apocalypse" meme, which started in August 2022 on Twitter / X.

It’s slang that’s often niche and insular to the internet — sometimes making ... this year that consolidated basically all of them into one meme. Its lyrics go: “Sticking out your gyatt ...

There's a new slang term taking the internet by storm ... because why not? As with all new internet terms, there’s a period of buzzy excitement when we encounter a new way to express ourselves.

It even has a page on Know Your Meme, an online compendium of Internet in-jokes. Scherer, 33, said it was “insane” for “we all sing” to cause such a stir since it was “three words spoken ...

But long before the internet, there was spoken slang, the result of various cultures’ and identity groups’ innovations. This type of language originated in the margins, my colleague Caleb ...

Is Internet Slang Making Us All Sound the Same? By Jasmine Desiree. Published on Oct 7, 2024 at 2:45 PM. Getty Photo Illustration: Keila Gonzalez Getty Photo Illustration: Keila Gonzalez.