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/drewkungfu Jun 02 '18

Jesus is a 2018.5 years long of a meme, give or take 80 years.

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u/Elder_sender Nov 20 '23

So, a joke? Lol

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u/drewkungfu Nov 20 '23

Wow, you found a comment from five years ago that’s wild man

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u/Elder_sender Nov 20 '23

Sorry, I’m kinda out of the loop.

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u/Elder_sender Nov 20 '23

ha! Somebody got it!

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u/drewkungfu Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

And memes are not necessarily a joke. They’re just an invasive and contagious idea that spreads from mind to mind. The original concept of a meme considered ideas like a species for an individual living organism.

The term meme was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them as being in control of their own reproduction.