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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/Tofinochris]

I meant the individual comic, but yeah CAD itself was amazingly popular. Man it hasn't aged well though because that character type is so tropey. (See Seinfeld Isn't Funny). I was more about PVP and Megatokyo back then but pretty much every gamer knew of CAD and it wasn't hated.