mid bounce

When someone makes a dramatic exit or attempts a comeback and it just... doesn't work. The L bounce is the sad cousin of the triumphant return — you left, you came back, and somehow things got worse or more embarrassing. It's the failed mic drop, the revenge arc that backfired, the 'I'm leaving this group chat' followed by a silent return three days later. The internet never forgets an L bounce, and the screenshots live forever in someone's camera roll, waiting for the right moment.

A comeback, recovery, or exit that lands as a clear victory — one of those bounces where everyone watching knows the person came back stronger, smarter, or simply more themselves. A W bounce isn't just surviving a setback; it's returning in a way that makes the original L look like setup. Think of someone ghosting a toxic situation and re-emerging fully healed and thriving. The timeline remembers. The W bounce is proof that sometimes leaving was exactly the right play.

The absolute highest-level version of someone's bounce — when a comeback, re-entry, or exit hits at maximum impact with zero wasted motion. Peak bounce is when everything aligns: the timing is perfect, the energy is undeniable, and the audience can't look away. It's the kind of return that gets screenshotted, quoted, and replayed. You don't always know when it's coming, but the moment peak bounce happens everyone in the room or on the timeline simultaneously goes 'yeah, okay, that was it.' Rare, unmistakable, legendary.