What is rekt & get rekt?

In early 2014, an anonymous user posted a story about himself and his girlfriend, to which someone responded with the words "LOL rekt." This lack of empathy, made a screenshot of the conversation go viral on Reddit some time later and the rest is history. Today, rekt and get rekt is its own meme format and a common phrase on the internet.

What is rekt slang?

“ Rekt ”, also known as #rekt, is an Internet slang term which 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 October 13th, 2012, World of Warcraft Forums member Balrogboogie started a thread titled “Get Rekt Ally Scrublords.”

What does wrecked mean in rekt?

Note that wrecked = (very) drunk is primarily a British usage, so most likely the vast majority of people using rekt in recent years aren't familiar with that sense. They simply see it as a "cute" way of writing a word that means destroyed (figuratively, totally defeated in online games, etc.).