All the Internet Words We Added to Our Dictionaries in 2024

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( best of 2024 [All the Internet Words We Added to Our Dictionaries in 2024]( The year English went full brain rot. Photo-Illustration: Mia Angioy. Source: sobrizzle/TikTok; Tim & Dee TV/ Youtube; joolieannie/TikTok; CBS News /YouTube; Junko Shorts/YouTube Before 2015, the average person wouldn’t be caught dead using internet slang. To be fair, back then slang was LOLcopter and epic fail. It’s not that phrases like Show me. To me, please are any more comprehensible but, rather, that now enough of us are online to make the inside joke go mainstream — even if we’ll still regret it in five years. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Black Doves: [Hello, Darling (Episode 1)](, [Droll for Three A.M. (Episode 2)]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Best Video Games of 2024 Multi-platform titles like Balatro asserted themselves in thrillingly weird style.]( By Lewis Gordon [Which White Comedian Caught Kendrick Lamar’s Wrath? Andrew Schulz is claiming credit.]( By Hershal Pandya [Star Wars and Slam Dunks: Here’s How the Disney+ ESPN Integration Will Work Everything you need to know about Bob Iger’s new streaming vision.]( By Savannah Salazar [Unraveling the Netflix Christmas Universe A quest to find the connections between every NCU movie has destroyed our belief in a stable reality.]( By Laura Bradley [Jamie Foxx Taped a Netflix Special About His Health Scare What Had Happened Was is out December 10 on Netflix.]( By Hershal Pandya [Nicole Kidman Thinks TikToks Are ‘Saur Funny’ But she’s not watching them.]( By Jason P. Frank [Moonlight in the Lion’s Den Why Barry Jenkins gave up his improvisational shooting style to spend four years making Mufasa on a soundstage.]( By Matt Zoller Seitz [The Best Theater of 2024 Waterfront history staged afloat, a variety of robots, and Mary Todd Lincoln going wild.]( By Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 1-Across, Three Letters: New Kyle Mooney film set on New Year’s Eve 1999 Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Lila Seeley, Ken Jack), Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name a Robert Downey Jr. movie with an 80%+ Rotten Tomatoes score? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Michael Buckner/Variety, Mike Pont), Gary Gershoff/WireImage A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved