According to Google Trends, interest in the term “spirit animal” has grown exponentially over time if you look at how often the term was searched and how many articles relate to the search term. Beyond that, the term spirit animal has become a perfect punch-line when presented with humorous GIFs or images/posts on social media. It has gained so much popularity and interest that “spirit animal” even earned a spot on Urbandictionary.com, being defined as: “a spirit animal or totem is meant to be a representation of the traits and skills that you are supposed to learn or have. Online, saying something or someone is your spirit animal is a statement that said person or thing is a representation of you or what you want to be.”
