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July 07, 2025

Indonesian Boat Racing Kid or Kid Aura Farming On Boat refers to a series of memes based on several viral videos of kids dancing, posing and essentially conducting rowers while standing on the front of Indonesian racing boats during Pacu Jalur, an annual racing event. Memes using clips of the kids, some taken from the @lensa.rams TikTok page, went viral on TikTok and Instagram Reels in June 2025, with many examples set to the song "Young Black & Rich" by Melly Mike. The videos inspired memes in which TikTokers mirror the moves done by the kids on the boats, with one kid wearing an all-black outfit becoming the particular subject of memes. Many of the memes suggest that the dancing kids are aura farming.

The Subway Slammer, also known as Takeyuki Kiuchi, refers to a character in the 2025 Persona game Persona 5: The Phantom X (P5X), who's an antagonist known for slamming into women in the subway station. The Subway Slammer inspired many memes on social media platforms like Twitter / X, Reddit and TikTok, among others, following the game's release in late June 2025. His catchphrases like, "It wasn't on purpose. That's not my fault," and, "The whole subway's mine for the slammin'," were also used in memes. People online humorously hyped up the Subway Slammer as a powerful villain in fiction, including powerscaling memes.

Orc City refers to memes and jokes inspired by Twitter / X user and fantasy author John A. Douglas's book The Black Crown. In early July 2025, Douglas posted a tweet criticizing Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima for giving the name "Fat Man" to the villain in the video game Metal Gear. The tweet prompted X user @capybaroness to post the opening chapters of Douglas's book in which he describes the aftermath of an "orc war." Several internet users mocked Douglas's writing for using simple fantasy tropes where orcs fight elves, highlighting lines like, "[The orc city's] ruin was overseen by the architect of its very destruction," and a line in which an "elvish king" says, "There is nothing more reviled than an Orc." Jokes about life in Orc City, as well as the war between "orcs" and "elves," began circulating online soon after the tweet went viral.

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