Sleeper Hit

Someone who you personally find attractive (real or a fictional character), but most people don’t or at least don’t talk about how they’re attractive.

“You know Ushijima? Yeah, he’s a sleeper hit.”

Sleeper hit

A type of media that found success years/months/weeks/days after its release.

Duncan Laurence’s Arcade, which is a song, is an example of a sleeper hit. It represented the Netherlands (and also their winning song) at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest and later went viral on TikTok in 2021.