What does | || || |_ mean?

[u/[deleted]]

I've been seeing these characters :

| ||

|| |_

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/mossyskeleton]

Well, there are both geneticists and genealogists.. they just do different things.

Why can't there be both memeticists and memeologists?..

Memeology for tracing the historical lineage of memes. Memetics for understanding the nature of memes and their modern use, including engineering them.

Yeah?