Points from upvotes, which cannot be spent and are pursued anyway — karma — and 'karma whore' for the person who reposts for it. The record's entry for the number that means nothing and is displayed next to your name, and for the accounts with a million of it.
My first sighting was 2005, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2012 was people explaining it.
The record notes karma buys nothing, that people have bought accounts for it, and that the record's own is 4,211, which it checked, just now, for this entry.
You were there. What happened?
