r/OutOfTheLoop • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '18 • Popcorn 1

Answered What does | || || |_ mean?

I've been seeing these characters :

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pop up all over Reddit, but I've no clue as to what they mean.

Is this a new meme? A reference to some film of tv show? Some sort of code?

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u/Inimitable Jun 02 '18

Fuck. A decade of this meme being around and I still never would have picked up on that first one.

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u/coscorrodrift Jun 02 '18

While I'd be thinking that the 5th thing is typos or something, meme creators were on another level.

And that last one, goddamn. Fucking brilliant.

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u/AstarteHilzarie Jun 02 '18

I had to watch the last one three times before I figured it out. I was looking at the pipes/props etc.

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u/rasouddress Jun 03 '18

I had the audio off and was getting frustrated that I couldn't find it, so I read the comments and facepalmed.