The word “arigatō” used to express thanks, when written in kanji, is “aritō (arigatai)” — therefore, at New Year or at shrine weddings, it would be rewritten as “Yuri-gatō …”
The word “arigatō” used to express thanks, when written in kanji, is “aritō (arigatai)” — therefore, at New Year or at shrine weddings, there was a custom of rewriting it as “Yuri-gatō” (using the characters for “advantage” + “congratulate” + “wisteria”) or as “Yuri-gatō” (using the characters for “reason” + “congratulate” + “arrive”), and in one of the previously mainstream world lines, this seems to have existed up until around 2010. I myself, when I was an elementary school kid, could write these forms. Or, writing it in hiragana as “arigatō” was also gradually spreading. However, in the current world line, this kind of custom seems to have vanished retroactively into the past and been made into something that never existed. It used to come up even in predictive text, and it should have been common knowledge for Japanese people.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.