I just learned this one at the end of last year. Doyagao is, according to my high school students, a proud or even narcissistic facial expression. (Kao, of course, means "face.") After looking it up online I found out that the word came onto the scene in 2011--my bad for not having learned it back then. But the fact that my students told me about it half a year ago suggests that, while being a slang word, it isn't yet obsolete.
Came across this great explanation of the word on YouTube:
おつかれやま!!! (In romaji, "Otsukareyama!!!" In kanji, お疲れ山?)
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