The Great Meme Reset
A word lands. Call keep or retire, then pick the reason it went past it.
Six words, each with a context line that tells you how it is being used right now. First call the move - keep it on or retire it to the list. Then pick the reason that matches: the tell that shows the word is still working, or the tell that shows it is just decoration now. Both right is the full read. End with your reset card.
Not that the word is bad. That it stopped being about the thing.
Keep = specific, self-explaining, not the joke. Retire = needs the "you know what I mean", or the word itself is the punchline.
About The Great Meme Reset
The Great Meme Reset is the 2026 move of declaring a batch of overused words done - not because they are bad, but because they have been used so many times in a row that the word itself has become the decoration. It is the year the house gets cleaned: the words that stopped being about the thing go on the list, and the words that still do their job stay. The game reads whether you can tell the two apart.
How to Play
Six words, each with a line about how it is being used right now. First, call the move - keep it if it still names a specific thing, retire it if it is now just the default. Then pick the tell that matches: the word that still works, the word that needs explaining, or the word that is the joke itself. Both the call and the tell have to be right for the full read.
The Card
Your full reads, your score, and your reset-read - the "I dropped the dead one and kept the live one" card, built for the moment someone is still reaching for a word everyone agreed was done and you have a number to say which one is actually still on the job.