gen-z

Added September 4, 2026

Curtains For Zoosha is a catchphrase from a viral 2022 X post satirizing how Gen Z celebrity headlines sound to older readers—used as a reaction when slang-heavy pop-culture news feels incomprehensible.

Added September 1, 2026

August 2026 TikTok and Instagram clips of crowds watching teens "aura farm" against each other in public—Unitel Bolivia's post cleared 267,000 likes and @dymrstore's battle edit passed 144,000 views.

Added August 27, 2026

A July–August 2026 Gen Z insult calling something cheap, mass-produced, or fake—crystallized roasting "polyester edits" and spreading to "polyester lifestyle" comments with 52,000 likes.

Added August 2, 2026

A late-July 2026 TikTok edit trend that transitions from a conventionally attractive subject to photos of influencer Brent Rivera—the joke that nobody escapes the "Rivera mog."

Added July 26, 2026

A TikTok archetype meme about dating an emo or alt girl until she texts "look what I did :3" and sends something obsessive—your name in deer intestines, carved into a hamster, or similar unhinged devotion.

Added July 26, 2026

AAVE-derived internet slang for betrayal or getting "slimed out"—revived on TikTok in July 2026 as Gen Alpha voice-chat kids use it ironically in Fortnite and hood-irony edits.

Added July 12, 2026

TikTok slang for women with visible hip dips—natural thigh indentations below the hip bone—popularized in late June 2026 as ironic body-critique theater, often framed as a play on "manlet."

Added July 8, 2026

Gen Z slang for plain high-protein meal prep—rice plus ground turkey or beef jokingly compared to dog kibble—spread on TikTok in 2025 and hit mainstream news coverage by early 2026 as the male counterpart to Girl Dinner.

Added July 6, 2026

An internet archetype for suburban Gen Alpha boys named Mason who overuse the 67 meme—fluffy ice cream hair, baseball gear, and emojipasta rejecting pride flags while embracing fishing and Christianity.

Added July 6, 2026

A late-August 2025 forced-number fad positioning "nine-three" as the successor to dead 67 and 41 memes—spread through TikTok skits telling friends they're "stuck on 67."

Added July 6, 2026

An October 2025 forced-number fad where TikToker Spartan Swot stares bug-eyed in a bathroom repeating "six one"—marketed as the 67 replacement and nicknamed "six swan."

Added June 29, 2026

A 2026 TikTok phrasal template joking that pop singer Sombr hates something petty—or that you must "do X or listen to Sombr"—often ending with "me asf" self-own captions and multi-million-view clips.

Added June 29, 2026

A Tumblr hashtag pattern (#mytwig, #mystim, #mybrainworm) for labeling hyper-specific personal quirks—origin post by amnesiaguy passed 100K likes/reblogs before spreading as #mything in 2025–2026.

Added June 28, 2026

A mid-2026 TikTok slang revival pronouncing "#meaf" as "meef"—a misread of the relatable hashtag #me af ("me as fuck") when spaces disappear in tags.

Added June 23, 2026

A late-June 2026 TikTok/X slang meme pairing the caption "mi mug tea" (my face tea) with Teresa—an Illumination-style Despicable Me OC edit of Lucy Wilde in a blue dress with long nails.

Added May 15, 2026

A late-April–May 2026 brand-led meme where companies post side-by-side mock ad copy from a “Millennial PR team” versus a “Gen Z social team,” exaggerating generational clichés—long earnest blurbs and bullet points on one side, slangy one-liners and emoji walls on the other.

Added April 30, 2026

Oxymoronic internet slang from 2023: calling someone “beautiful mid” means cute or appealing in a cozy, non-“model hot” way—often wrapped in the bait-y line “every man simply wants a beautiful mid to call his own,” which sparked parody and debate on X.

Added April 16, 2026

A TikTok-originated routine label for piling snacks, journals, skincare, and devices on the bed so you can work, scroll, and wind down without getting up—often framed as cozy productivity until sleep experts and local news segments in early April 2026 argued it can backfire on rest.

Added March 30, 2026

A viral YouTube Shorts series by DaFuq!?Boom! featuring toilets with human heads singing a remixed song, sparking a massive fan culture and Gen Alpha internet subculture.

Added March 30, 2026

Internet slang for someone's natural ability to attract others through effortless charisma — popularized by Twitch streamers in 2021 and named Oxford Word of the Year in 2023.

Added March 26, 2026

Viral copypasta from 2019 listing stereotypical behaviors of girls born after 1993, popularized by a tweet ending with "eat hot chip & lie."

Added March 23, 2026

A TikTok trend from February 2026 where people film themselves or others twitching erratically to an NBA YoungBoy x Frank Ocean remix, captioned as a fictional "Baby Boo Syndrome" diagnosis.

Added March 22, 2026

Viral TikTok and social media meme born from rapper Skrilla's lyric "I know he dying 6-7" in the 2024 song "Doot Doot," popularized through LaMelo Ball basketball edits and a signature see-saw hand gesture.