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Scientology Speedrun

A 2026 trend in which a group of people break into the Scientology headquarters and try to make it the farthest into the building as they can before being forcefully removed by security. The trend has become so widespread that the door handles on the outside doors of the Scientology building have been removed in an attempt to prevent people entering
Me and my friends are joining this massive group to do a Scientology Speedrun
“If no porn is found of it, it will be made". This acts as a corollary to the more famous Rule 34 ("If it exists, there is porn of it"), implying that any missing content will eventually be created by users.

Overlaps with Rule 36: ‘There will always be more fucked up shit than what you just saw’, and potentially Rule 63: ‘For every given male character, there is a female version of that character and vice versa’ but not always
Person 1: Finally, I’ve found something Rule 34 doesn’t apply to!
Person 2: Not according to Rule 35, you didn’t
Rule 35 by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 25, 2026

Great YouTube Outage

An event that took place on February 17th/18th, 2026, in which YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music went down for around half a million users.

Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube from 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the 17th (1 a.m. on Wednesday 18th in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)), according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site Downdetector. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.

Around 10 p.m. EST (17/2/2026) equivalent to 3 a.m UTC (18/2/2026), YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.

The event is named for the volume of users who the platform went down for.
Person 1: Man, I couldn’t watch anything!
Person 2: That’s because of the Great YouTube Outage

1000xResist

A video game created by developer Sunset Visitor and published by Fellow Traveller Games for Windows on May 9th, 2024 and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on November 4th, 2025.

The player is a clone named Watcher in a post-apocalyptic far future where an alien race known as the Occupants have eradicated most of humanity through a global pandemic, leaving only a small society of clones behind. These clones worship Iris Kwan, known to them as the Allmother, as their god, as Iris is the only person in the world to be immune to the Occupants’ disease.

On the whole, the game is full of generational trauma, doomed yuri and lesbians. And it’s fucking amazing.
Person 1: Hekki grace!
Person 2: Hekki.
Person 3: What the fuck is ‘Hekki’?
Person 1: Play 1000xResist and then you’ll understand
(14 hours later)
Person 3: I see now
An acronym for ‘Vertical takeoff, vertical landing’, a form of takeoff and landing for rockets. Multiple VTVL craft have flown. A notable VTVL vehicle was the Apollo Lunar Module which delivered the first humans to the Moon. Building on the decades of development, SpaceX utilised the VTVL concept for its flagship Falcon 9 first stage, which has delivered over five hundred successful powered landings so far.
Person 1: Yo, the Falcon 9 recovery is so cool
Person 2: It’s called VTVL
Person 1: Shut up you fucking nerd
VTVL by EnglishMakesMeWantToDrink February 12, 2026

The Maryland Point

The point at which a flag which initially looks ugly morphs into becoming beautiful. Most commonly seen with the flag of the US state of Maryland, from which the term takes its name
The flag of British Columbia, boy is it a gong show. But it manages to cross the Maryland Point where ugly becomes awesome

Hatsune Mike

1 - A misspelling of Hatsune Miku, often unintentionally as Miku is autocorrected to Mike

2 - A portmanteau of Hatsune Miku and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. Sometimes used when Mike does something related to Miku or there is a Hatsune Miku cover of a Linkin Park song.
1 - Man I love Hatsune Mike
Miku! Fucking autocorrect…

2 - I just watched this Miku cover of a Linkin Park song!
Damn, I guess you could say it was Hatsune Mike instead…
Fuck you…