jojo

The command from Solo Leveling — 'Arise' — with which the hero raises shadows, said by the internet about anything getting up: a friend after a night out, a dead phone, a football club. The record's entry for the anime word that became a general instruction.

The end of a series that had been ending since 2021, finally, in November 2023, and the week of arguments about whether it had stuck the landing. The record's entry for a finale that the internet had rehearsed three times.

A beloved character, described by someone who has never seen the show — 'my blorbo from my shows' — as Tumblr's 2021 word for the specific character a friend will not stop talking about. The record's entry for the noun that means 'your guy', and for the tenderness in it.

An anime opening so kinetic — a rap track, a dancing ghost, a first-episode plot that defied summary — that the clip outran the show in October 2024 and became the autumn's most-copied edit. The record's entry for the opening as the meme.

An amateur drawing of Frieren from an upward angle whose chin came out flat, pointed and geologically wrong. Reposted with love rather than cruelty: hundreds of redraws either fixed the jaw or made it worse, and the artist thanked everyone. Also called the Friangle.

The anime debut of Luffy's cartoon-physics transformation — laughing, rubber, white — in August 2023, which crashed streaming servers and made 'Gear 5' the internet's word for going all out. The record's entry for the episode as a holiday.

A black-and-white photograph of a man with an impossible jaw, from a Russian art project, adopted as the image of the ultimate Chad — and used since for anyone who does something confidently and correctly. The face of 'average X fan versus average Y enjoyer'.

Something you have decided is true about a story that the story never said. The word that made private reading a public position.