What Does This Mean?
A red circle drawn around part of a video thumbnail to say 'look here', used like the red arrow and sometimes parodied as a clickbait cliché.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He put a red circle around a crumb like it was the evidence of the century."
LORE & ORIGIN
Part of the same YouTube thumbnail convention as the red arrow: a red outline around a detail to direct attention and imply something important. Some pages describe a parody 'red circle meme' in which the circle highlights something mundane, but that comes from low-quality sources and could not be confirmed or dated. The origin year is unknown.
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