'This' — with an arrow pointing up at the post above — as the forum's way of agreeing without adding, and the record's entry for the oldest one-word agreement in the file, which every platform has tried to replace with a button and none has killed.
The record notes 'this' was so common that Reddit's rules banned it, that the ban did not work, and that 'this' is still posted with the arrow by people who have never used a forum.
There was a version of This ^ that went round my family group chat about a month late, presented as new. I did not correct anyone. It was, for them, new, and that has to count for something.
Correction to the headnote: This ^ was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
