The act of obsessively optimizing one's listening habits, review scores, or release timing with the goal of crowning or claiming an Album of the Year. Can describe a fan campaign, a label's rollout strategy, or a critic's year-end posturing.
The label has been aoty maxxing since the leak — exclusive interviews, Pitchfork placement, the whole rollout.
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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