On a cold night in early winter, in a dim apartment lit only by the bluish scatter of a laptop screen, a new word flickered quietly into the digital atmosphere: lystret. It carried no brand identity, no corporate heritage, no linguistic lineage that scholars could trace. Yet, like many modern terms born somewhere between code, culture, and curiosity, it felt strangely charged—light enough to float, sharp enough to remain. On message boards, in experimental design communities, and whispered through the shifting corridors of social media, the word appeared again and again. People weren’t asking where it came from—they were asking…