Wrecked — liquidated, wiped out, done — spelled the way a gamer spells it, and the scene's word for a loss too big to joke about, so it jokes about it. 'Got rekt' is the record's most-used two-word obituary for a portfolio.
Definition by contrast: Rekt is not the older thing it gets compared to. The older thing needed context; Rekt was the context.
I remember when Rekt was still a niche thing — 2017 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
'Rekt' on a T-shirt on a man at an airport, 2023, with a downward chart. He was smiling. The record notes that the scene wears its losses, which is either healthy or the opposite.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
