Watching someone's stories and liking their posts after ghosting them — staying in orbit without landing. Named in 2018 and recognised by anyone with an ex who still views everything. The record's entry for the silent witness.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2019 was people explaining it.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Orbiting arrived in 2018 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
'He's orbiting' said by a woman looking at her story viewers, in a bar, in 2023, with the tone of an astronomer. The record notes he had viewed within four minutes.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
