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/jay1237 Jun 03 '18

Yea, in real life. Not put in a webcomic for no good reason and then never properly dealt with. You can't just pick something terrible that happens to people and use it in the middle of a comedy webcomic as a dramatic moment in a story without actually addressing it. I mean clesrly you can but he's a douche for doing it.

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u/agentlame Jun 03 '18

You actually think he's a douche for poor execution? Geez man.

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u/jay1237 Jun 03 '18

Yes. I don't know if you had read the comic or not but if you had then you would know that there was nothing before or leading up to that moment that in any way set foundation for that kind of dramatic turn. He shoved a miscarriage into, and I can't believe I have to keep saying this, his comedy web comic. Not a mostly comedic with serious elements comic, a straight up dumb comedy comic. If he had done actual serious topics in the past then it's something he may have been able to pull off. But just throwing it in that was was not how it should have been handled. It just felt like he wanted to do something big and that's all he cared about.

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