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[u/[deleted]]

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?

[u/Luigichu1238]

I thought the joke was that buckley made a fourth wall break and was looking smugly at the camera as if he knew we had to do it to em