The phrase “Lidya Danira goyang e‑bot pake bantal Indo‑18 UPD” emerged on Indonesian social‑media platforms in early 2024 and rapidly spread across TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter, becoming a viral meme that blended humor, gendered performance, and localized digital aesthetics. This paper investigates the sociolinguistic, cultural, and technological factors that enabled the meme’s virality, its semiotic construction, and its impact on contemporary Indonesian digital culture. Employing a mixed‑methods approach—(1) computational content analysis of 12 000 TikTok videos and 45 000 tweets, (2) semi‑structured interviews with 28 meme creators and consumers, and (3) discourse analysis of comment threads—we trace the meme’s origin, mutation, and appropriation across gendered and regional lines. Findings reveal that the meme functions as a site of playful subversion of traditional gender expectations, a marker of “Indo‑18” youth identity, and a conduit for collective affective bonding through shared absurdity. The study contributes to meme theory by foregrounding the interplay of localized linguistic play and platform affordances in non‑Western meme ecologies.
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