Compendium
Documenting 21st century culture
The turn of the century came with a globalization of communication through the spread of the Internet, exposing many people to overwhelming amount of contents - some funny, some good, some sad, some bad.
In this new hyperconnected society, it has become hard to keep up to date with everything. This compendium aims to be a documentation for elements of 21st century culture, making them as accessible as possible to those who are "out of the loop" on specific topics.
You might be wondering what a compendium is, whether there is a deliberate political bias, who writes the content, which guidelines it follows, all those questions and more are answered in our mission statement.
All of the compendium's contents can be found on the list of all pages. Though maybe you would rather get started in your browsing by reading a randomly chosen page.
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OMG
Page type: Definition
Published 12 days ago
Oh My God, expressing surprise or anger.
Fgsfds
Page type: Meme
Published 13 days ago
An absurd meme in which the letters "fgsfds" are added to a picture of someone raising a finger.
WTF
Page type: Definition
Published 21 days ago
What The Fuck, expressing astonishment.
AI generated images
Page type: Meme
Published 22 days ago
Computer programs capable of generating funny images based on people's prompts cause a lot of creative hilarity.
MDR
Page type: Definition
Published 25 days ago
French initialism meaning "dying of laughter", expressing amusement.
Body shaming
Page type: Sociocultural
Published 46 days ago
Dismissing someone for their appearance can hurt more people than you'd think.
Brandolini's law
Page type: Sociocultural
Published 62 days ago
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.
ROFL
Page type: Definition
Published 91 days ago
Rolling On the Floor Laughing.
PIPI in your pampers
Page type: Drama
Published 92 days ago
When chess trush talkings go too far, you better hope that liers will be kicked off...
Cool S
Page type: Meme
Published 96 days ago
You've probably seen or even drawn this symbol before.
LOL
Page type: Definition
Published 124 days ago
Laughing Out Loud, expressing amusement.
Overton window
Page type: Sociocultural
Published 126 days ago
A theory about delineating and manipulating political correctness.
Longcat
Page type: Meme
Published 161 days ago
Longcat is loooooooooooooooooooooong
Copypasta
Page type: Meme
Published 167 days ago
An indigestion in text form.
Troll
Page type: Definition
Published 168 days ago
A shadowy figure lurks behind a computer screen. Could it be…?
IRL
Page type: Definition
Published 169 days ago
In Real Life, in the physical world.
Initialism
Page type: Definition
Published 169 days ago
The combination of the first letter of several words.
Acronym
Page type: Definition
Published 169 days ago
The combination of the first letter of several words, made to be pronounced out loud.
Ah!
Page type: Meme
Published 198 days ago
- What else would you have if you knew about Ah?
- Well, for a start, we'd have a shack.
