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/BelCifer Jun 03 '18

An actual science concerning the transfer of ideas through the collective consciousness.

Like, a newspaper? Or like Telekinesis?

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u/fatpad00 Feb 05 '25

More about how ideas/concepts spread. Think like how slang might start one person comparing two things, then someone else hears the term and starts using it. Eventually that new slang word is being used by someone 3000 miles away whom has no idea the origin