Ascribe a meaning to it, make it a viral meme, and the meaning will stick.

Words like "quiz" and "blog" came to existence this way.

The reality is that I was browsing the annual HTML Day submissions [1] and stumbled upon this super wholesome webpage.

[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

What's wrong with exploring oneself? Obviously not too much nor wrongly in public and never to excess, but if the modern spelunking is just urbex - which it is, in my view, and much more appealing than any dank smelly old cave - then, though I won't repeat the hideous portmanteau, I don't suppose I see too much of a problem with this practice, either.

After all - γνῶθι σεαυτόν, wasn't that the phrase? No accident at all we find it incised over the gateway to an oracle. You might want to think about that, who has just finished reading this now.

Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is exploring one's friends?

It's fast here. That's a win over 99% of modern sites.