Winter Arc

Winter Arc refers to a fitness challenge in which people spend their winters bulking and gaining muscle and then cutting the fat to look fit and shredded by summer. The challenge can be traced back to at least late 2022. However, the phrase "winter arc" only received meme attention in 2024 as intern...

True Story is a rage comic character based on a black and white contour drawing of How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson (played by actor Neil Patrick Harris) smiling smugly while holding a wine glass. Often accompanied by the text “true story,” the character can mostly be found in the fina...

"U WOT M8" is a shorthand for "You what, mate?" which is a colloquialism used by English speakers in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It is typically used in response to an incoherent proposition put forth by someone else, along the similar lines of "what did you just say?" or wat or w...

"U MAD?", sometimes written as "you mad?" or "u mad bro?", is a catchphrase that is often used in discussion threads to imply that someone is losing their temper during the course of an argument, sometimes taunting or baiting other posters into a flamewar. Due to the agitating nature of the phrase,...

Thicc is a slang term used to describe the voluptuous, hourglass-like curvature of a woman's hips. Online, the term has seen widespread usage as a descriptor for images of bootylicious women, in the same vein of the slang expression "dat ass", and a popular subject of parody images featuring fiction...

Longcat is one of the most recognized cats on the Internet. He is known for his epic length, spawning photoshops and even an entire mythology around his magnitude. The original photo of Longcat, whose name is Shiroi (白い – “white” in Japanese) or Nobiko, first appeared on Futaba channel (2chan)...

tl;dr or TLDR (abbreviation for too long; didn't read) is an internet slang expression commonly used in discussion forums as a shorthand response to previous posts that are deemed unnecessarily long and extensive. Due to its indiscriminate usage by many, tl;dr is frequently considered as spam or mea...

"Bruh" is a popular variant of the slang term "bro" that is often used as an interjection to convey frustration or disappointment at something. Online, the term is frequently iterated in the forms of text comments and reaction images, as well as Vine remixes in which various subjects are shown faint...

"Rekt", also known as #rekt, is shorthand for "wrecked," which is often used in online gaming to indicate that someone has been defeated or embarassed, in a similar vein to the term "pwned". On June 6th, 2011, Urban Dictionary user PossiblyCouldOKIWill submitted an entry for the term "rekt," defi...

"Wat" is a variant of the English word "what" that is often used to express confusion or disgust, much like its better known acronym "WTF", short for "what the fuck." Although the term "wat" is most frequently used as an interjection without a question mark, it is sometimes used to caption reaction...

Copypasta is internet slang for any block of text that gets copied and pasted over and over again, typically disseminated by individuals through online discussion forums and social networking sites. The term is an English portmanteau of "copy," "paste" and "pasta." Although it shares some characteri...

First World Problems, also known as "White Whine," are frustrations and complaints that are only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries. It is typically used as a tongue-in-cheek comedic device to make light of trivial inconveniences. The earliest known reference to "first wor...