"Old Town Road" is a 2018 trap song by rapper Lil Nas X. On TikTok, parody featuring portions of the song have been widely circulating, typically using the names "Horses in the Back" or "Yee Yee Juice," in which participants drink juice that turns them into a hillbilly. In April 2019, a remix of the track featuring country singer Billy Ray Cyrus was released.
Read MoreMcDonald’s Alignment Chart is an Alignment Chart in which users humorously categorizes fictional characters by their potential reaction to children asking for McDonald’s fast food.
Read More"Learn to Code" is an expression used to troll journalists who were laid off from their jobs, encouraging them to learn software development as an alternate career path. The phrase was widely posted on Twitter following the announcement of layoffs at BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post in late January 2019.
Read MoreNew Guy refers to a character in a comic strip made by artist Mallorie Jessica Udischas, aka sweetbeans99. In the comic, a purple-haired character laughs about a "millionaire gamer-bro douchebag" who got robbed, most likely a reference to PewDiePie getting robbed in early December 2019. Her co-worker, whose nametag reads "New Guy," says, "Hey, how'd you like it if you were robbed?" The purple-haired character then sarcastically remarks that she and the "new guy" could be friends but then says "Hell no." While the comic drew backlash from people who read the comic as the author laughing at PewDiePie's misfortune, others began to sympathize with the "new guy" character, creating fan art emphasizing his wholesomeness.
Read MoreCoomer refers to a Wojak character described as a person with severe masturbation addiction similar to that of the Cumbrain. Unline similar 4chan Wojak characters such as 30-Year-Old Boomer and Zoomer, Coomer's description includes multiple parody elements which could not be applied to a real person due to humorous exaggeration.
Read MoreNyan~ Neko Sugar Girls is a fanime created by the YouTube user SoapOpera46. It is notable for its terrible art style, poor audio, and bad voice acting.
Read MorePogChamp, also known as Pog Champion or Play of Game Champ, is one of the oldest emotes on Twitch. The emote is used as a way to express excitement or surprise both genuinely or sarcastically. Typically PogChamp is spammed during a stream when something exciting happens, such as pulling off a clutch kill or play, but the emote can also be used in a trolling fashion where there is no hype, like a streamer failing a challenge or being killed in a mundane setting.
Read MoreCheese Slap, also known as Cheesing and the Cheese Challenge, is a series of prank videos in which participants take a slice of cheese and slap a person or animal in the face with it.
Read MoreHi, My Name Is Reggie refers to an animated, pornographic video in which a male mouse dressed in feminine clothing discusses his sexuality interspersed with clips of the mouse having sex. The video inspired the creation of remixes wherein the pornographic clips were replaced with clips from other pieces of media.
Read MoreHollow Knight is an indie video game released for Microsoft Windows. It also will be released on the Nintendo Switch. The game is a “Metroidvania”-style platformer, meaning it combines elements of combat, platforming and exploration in 2D, similar to the Metroid and Castlevania series. Hollow Knight has been well-received by critics and fans.
Read MoreRam Ranch is a song by surreal erotic artist Grant MacDonald which features over-the-top sexual lyrics with little rhythmic relationship to the accompanying beat. The song became popular online in the Twitch as a way to troll Bait and Switch video.
Read MoreJordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, who has gained a significant following and criticism online for challenging postmodernism, political correctness and identity politics.
Read MoreManlet (a portmanteau of man and midget) is a pejorative term referring to men who are below six feet in height and feel compelled to emphasize their masculinity through weight lifting and body building. Online, the term is often used in a similar fashion to “beta male” in reference to reproductive success, most notably on fitness boards such as 4chan’s /fit/ (Health & Fitness) and the Body Building Forums.
Read MoreSonic the Hedgehog (2019 Film) refers to the live-action film adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog. The film is directed by Jeff Fowler and stars Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Jim Carrey.
Read MoreMoney Printer Go Brrr is an image macro series depicting Wojaks representing the federal reserve printing money to prop up the stock market in attempts to prevent an economic downturn. The memes were popularized in March 2020 following the United States government injecting money into the market following a massive stock market crash during the 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak.
Read More"So, Guys, We Did It" is a memorable quote uttered by YouTuber Pyrocynical in a video celebrating the YouTuber's reaching 250,000 subscribers. It has since in 2018 become widely mocked and parodied by his fanbase and various other YouTubers. Pryo's speech in the video has also become a popular copypasta among his fanbase.
Read MoreWHIIIIIIIRRRRRRRR/Oh no… Not again!, sometimes known as Let me out, I need my Switch is a copypasta originating from 4chan video game forum /v/. The copypasta is associated with a 3-panel comic of a Nintendo Wojak getting anally vored by a dabbing characterization of a Sony fan known as “Sonybro,” ostensibly depicting Sony fans’ superiority to Nintendo fans.
Read MoreYes Chad, also known as Nordic Gamer, refers to a drawn image of a blond man with blue eyes wearing a SteelSeries headset, usually captioned "yes." The image is a subformat of Nordic / Mediterranean 4chan meme and originated on Twitter in early August 2019. The image has been used as a reaction and an exploitable on Twitter, 4chan and other online platforms, usually used to debase those attempting to mock or bully a person for their personal traits or interests.
Read MoreDoomguy and Isabelle is a fan art trend that started in October of 2019. Pieces tend to feature both characters paired in cute and/or gory situations or changing costumes and jobs. The trend came about as a result of DOOM Eternal's delayed-release to March 20th, 2020, the same day as Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Read MoreHands-Free Bubble Tea (#手放しタピオカ) also known as the Tapioca Challenge (#タピオカチャレンジ) is a hashtag used for images of people or fictional characters balancing bubble tea or other drinks on their chest while drinking it, in a similar manner to the #TawawaChallenge. Starting in June 2019, the trend has seen significant spread on Japanese Twitter.
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