A 2023 Vocaloid track whose derivative animated version, made by channelcastation, went viral in 2024 and produced a run of memes off individual frames and gestures. The record's entry for a song that needed someone else's animation before the wider internet would take it.
Logged on a school bus: two people arguing about whether the song or the animation came first, both certain, neither correct, both eventually looking it up on one phone.
Vocaloid works by layers: an original track, then fan animations, then memes made of the animations. The layer that travels is rarely the one that was released first.
The animation everyone shares is not the official video. It is a derivative work by another creator, and the year people give for the song is usually the year they saw that animation instead.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
