Editing Zodiac (section)

==Trivia==
===General===
*Zodiac was ranked #57 in GDToday's '100 Greatest Levels of All Time' list.
*At 55%, at the end of Samifying's part, the creator's message 'GL! SAMY OUT' can be found. It is a distinct feature on most of his mega-collaboration parts.
*Aquatias, LazerBlitz, Manix648, Pan, loogiah, Sysonic, Nemphis, Edicts, Vlacc, Eiken, and Splash all used to be a part of the mega-collaboration but later quit. Aquatias's layout, however, was retained and decorated by Onnikonna.
**Some people have called Zodiac near-impossible due to its length and timings.
*If the player dies at the last green orb timing at 99%, the text 'NOICE SAYS HI' will appear.
**This refers to the player GMDNoice, who claimed to be the 'president of Geometry Dash Twitter'.
*According to Wombat, Zodiac used to be called Exosphere before she convinced RicoLP to change the name to Zodiac.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIasYzBc3ns</ref>
*[[icedcave]] revealed an unofficial sequel to Zodiac called Spectre, which features YakobNugget and xander. Spectre was initially intended to be the official sequel to Zodiac, but Bianox and RicoLP later reversed their decision. It was set to be verified by ezvie,<ref>https://twitter.com/BIANOX_GD/status/1375100334880780290</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/BIANOX_GD/status/1368280543603855377</ref> who eventually dropped the level. Spectre was verified by PersonHuman42 on 5 October 2024 and placed at #6 on the Demonlist on 11 November 2024.
*Throughout Zodiac's creation process, parts of Zodiac have gone through different versions compared to the published level:
**Onnikonna and Aquatias's part in gameplay was different at the end.
**OSIRIS's part utilized mini-wave, black orb spam, and teleport portals.
**TMNGaming's part used to have a brief straight-fly segment where the background was dark and only a straight-fly corridor was visible.
*The [[Wikipedia:Zodiac|Zodiac]] is a belt-shaped region of the sky that extends approximately 8° north or south (as measured in celestial latitude) of the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the year. The paths of the Moon and visible planets are within the zodiac belt and 12 astrological signs.
**The 12 astrological signs are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
*Zodiac is the first Extreme Demon that [[Sunix]] has beaten since returning to Geometry Dash in April 2026. He beat it with 19,910 attempts on 17 April 2026.
**Zodiac has also become his new hardest after over eight years.
***Interestingly, five days later, Zodiac has also become the new hardest completion of another skilled player, [[SrGuillester]].

===Demonlist===
*Zodiac was placed at #1 on the Demonlist on 9 March 2019, above Bloodlust.
**This addition pushed [[Sonic Wave]] out of the Top 5 after more than two years of its reign, [[Sakupen Hell]] into the Extended List, and Uprise into the Legacy List.
**Zodiac is regarded as the 33rd instance of the hardest rated level in the game's history.
**Zodiac was briefly on the Legacy List due to the level being hacked and updated to several other joke levels.
**Zodiac was the #1 Demon for 338 days after being taken by Tartarus on 10 February 2020.
**Zodiac is the second former #1 Demon to use a Creo song, the first being [[Digital Descent]].
**Zodiac would not have dethroned Bloodlust as the new hardest level, had Crimson Planet been rated right after its verification on 19 May 2018.
*Zodiac is currently the longest former [[Demonlist Top 1 Levels|Top 1]] in terms of level length.
*[[nSwish]] considered Zodiac three times harder than Crimson Planet.
**The other Zodiac victors tend to agree that Zodiac is far harder than Crimson Planet and Bloodlust, and that the level is on a completely different scale than those two.
*Zodiac went through many verifiers, including Benji8080, DiamondSplash, and Slac.
*Zodiac was verified on the same day as [[Thinking Space]], a few hours before.
*Zodiac was put at #16 on the list on April Fools' Day in 2019, calling the verifier 'Australian Superstar' (this name became a meme after xander supposedly verified the level).
*xander confessed to hacking the verification of Zodiac on 11 June 2019, along with numerous other achievements.
**After his confession, he updated Zodiac to Satcherzbop by Satch Squad, a controversial level mainly due to its hate speech from the uncensored version.
**Zodiac was then updated once more to an impossible joke layout before [[Robert Topala|RobTop]] finally reverted the level to the original version.
***This chain of events caused Crimson Planet to be #1 for about a day.
*On 7 March 2025, Zodiac's (#70) position on the Demonlist was swapped with [[Kenos|Kenos's]] (#69), making Kenos a retrospective Top 1.
**On 3 October 2025, WOBBLING MACHINE was placed at #89 between those two levels, which became a running meme or gag in the community.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/geometrydash/comments/1o1lx0x/the_couple_has_broken_up_for_good/</ref>
***This gag was further implied after Zodiac was later moved from #90 to #93 on 8 October 2025, and then Kenos was moved from #88 to #83 on 19 October 2025, distancing both levels even more.
*With a tenure of 2,696 days, Zodiac is the longest-standing level on the Demonlist.
*Zodiac amassed 1,020 total victors during its lifespan on the Demonlist, making it the fifth level in the history of Pointercrate to reach a milestone of 1,000 victors, joining Bloodbath (1,294), Sonic Wave (1,048), Bloodlust (1,068), and Cognition (1,233).
*The placement of [[Every End]] on 20 April 2025 pushed Zodiac into the Extended List of the Demonlist, alongside [[Bloodlust]] falling to the Legacy List.
**The placement of [[Green Bullet]] on 26 July 2026 pushed Zodiac into the Legacy List after over seven years.
***Technical posted a video skit named 'Goodbye, Zodiac.' after this happened to honour the level, and xander reacted by detailing the level's legacy in the Demon List Discord server.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/395654171422097420/456448992482689025/1531036958715940864</ref>
****A controversy spawned right after, as a post by @Prototype_6197 on Twitter pointed out that one of Technical's friends featured in the skit has a history of sexual misconduct that ended in early-to-mid 2022. Technical was aware of this but never supported his actions and felt uncomfortable around him. Technical later took down the video, and after he made a formal apology, the drama mostly quieted down.<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ7EZKkawdfCudtBwAFSFn32ejGLrUYrtjpYgNf1tB7Zbb2cYIoXAl2BeUJoZdjDXW0w4xkog0-13wN/pub</ref>
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*[[Zoink]] beat Zodiac as his first-ever List Demon, jumping from [[Bloodbath]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Gj1iRg3cY</ref>
**PersonHuman42 also jumped from Bloodbath.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoc6E6ZZm-M</ref>
*Ozzy612, [[Mycrafted]], [[nSwish]], and [[rori]] beat the level in one week on 9–16 August 2019, creating the term known as 'Zodiac Week'.
*Joshua28's 12,194 attempts used to be the attempt record from 26 January 2020 to 20 May 2021.<ref name="Joshua28"/>
*[[RicoLP]], the level's host, completed Zodiac in ~22,000 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a0UmwiYUj4</ref>
*12_Kelvin's completion of Zodiac on 4 December 2021 made it the hardest completed Demon on a controller at the time.
*DrexX16_ became the 500th victor of Zodiac on 12 April 2025.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ELVKakF7M</ref>
*Sunix, the verifier of Sonic Wave, completed Zodiac on 17 April 2026 after dropping after an 80% fail on 14 October 2019.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=condtgWzOdc</ref>
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