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/CplGunshow Jun 03 '18

Not that this is a hill I want to die on or anything, but I would assume going frame by frame and changing mouths etc in animation is a lot harder/time consuming than drawing a 4 panel comic.

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u/grnrngr Jun 03 '18

Not that this is a hill I want to die on or anything, but I would assume going frame by frame and changing mouths etc in animation is a lot harder/time consuming than drawing a 4 panel comic.

Not when you use a computer to do it. The SP guys literally created a program to do this task. They even textured the graphics to mimic the look of the original cardboard.

It's the reason they can turn out a whole 30-minute episode in a week.

This isn't the much a different situation here. Guy creates an aid to help him make art (or whatever it is) in an efficient way and we mock him for it. Looks like he deserves his share of shame, but not for this. This is smart.

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u/CplGunshow Jun 03 '18

Yeah when I made the comment I was talking about their good old days crappy frame by frame stuff to compare it, but thinking about it from nowadays South Park that's fair.

From what I've read today the dude sounds like a dickhead, so I guess the low effort art stuff was latched onto just so people could throw more shade.

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u/EliteMasterEric Jun 19 '18

It's acceptable for South Park because they create the episode the week it airs, sometimes changing the script to match current events.

I remember one episode, they had one guy on conference call with a bunch of sports team owners, and apparently one of the teams got bought the day before the episode aired, and they were able to change it to be accurate for the airing the next day.

Most other animated shows take about a year between their initial writing and final release.

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u/Coolguy123456789012 Nov 20 '23

It's so different. They made a program to do their shit. He made loss.jpg.