'Small', but smaller — 'smol' — as the internet's word for anything tiny and beloved: a kitten, a frog, a friend. The record's entry for the misspelling that added affection, and for the 'smol bean', which is a person.
The record notes that 'smol' and 'chonk' are the two ends of the internet's animal-size scale and that both are said with love.
You were there or you weren't. I remember the first week of Smol — 2015, roughly — and the specific feeling that everyone had agreed on a joke overnight without a meeting.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2017 was people explaining it.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
