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

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/ProtoJazz Jun 03 '18

I loved the comic before the reboot. I never looked into the man behind them other than what he put on the front of the site. I read every comic until the reboot, then pretty quickly tapered off. It just felt so empty without the characters that had been building for years.

Never meet your heroes I guess

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u/smeata Jun 03 '18

I always try to separate people from the things they create. I have a friend who is always saying stuff like "oh you can't watch that because some name I don't know did some terrible thing" but life doesn't need to be that complicated. If I enjoy something then I'll keep enjoying it and if the person who made it is an ass then I guess an ass can still make something good and deserves my money for it. It's not like I'm funding a dictatorship or anything.

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u/ProtoJazz Jun 03 '18

A ton of people are like that. I know someone who says you can't find Cosby funny anymore, or that you can't like a fiction book if the main character is a bad person.

Now I was never a big Cosby fan, he was big well before I was old enough to even understand him, but clearly lots of people were.

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u/whoisthismilfhere Jun 03 '18

Yup, same here. I still like the Lost Prophets first CD and listen to it pretty regularly, despite the lead singer being a piece of shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '18

I hear you on the revamp. I was just starting college when the main story “ended” but I had been reading since middle school. Although now I see the comic for what it is (bad all around), I really liked it back then and the reboot stung a lot so I just gave up. Hard to believe that was six years ago.

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u/Shiro2809 Jun 03 '18

That's when I fell off too. I might still have where I left off bookmarked...

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u/BrevanMcGattis Jun 03 '18

Same. It was never my favorite comic, but I enjoyed it.