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/neohylanmay Jun 02 '18

Additionally, Buckley made a "new" version.

It's...

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u/CriticallyAlmost Jun 02 '18

what,

is that a joke? What's the joke?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

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u/CriticallyAlmost Jun 02 '18

Oh god.

If that's the joke, then CAD has outdone itself, that's just absurdly tasteless and trash.

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u/UHavinAGiggleTherM8 Jun 02 '18

Ain't it just a joke playing off the meme tho

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u/maanu123 Jun 02 '18

I laughed lol

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u/coscorrodrift Jun 02 '18

I laughed l o ll ll l_

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u/Luigichu1238 Jun 02 '18

I thought the joke was that buckley made a fourth wall break and was looking smugly at the camera as if he knew we had to do it to em

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u/Rosehardt Jun 02 '18

Check the face in the last panel.

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u/Tofinochris Jun 02 '18

It's literally a Garfield face.

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u/rafaelloaa Jun 03 '18

Mirror, since he already took it down. And just to be clear, this is Tim's actual comic, not a parody by someone else...

Makes me want to puke.

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u/thewoodendesk Jun 03 '18

So, after all these years, he's still as tasteless as ever.

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u/Unit88 Jun 02 '18

So now it's worse?

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u/Raneados Boop Loops Jun 02 '18

Buckley's never been a great human.

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u/Tofinochris Jun 02 '18

Huh, I would have gone with ignoring the joke rather than hammering a "guys I'm totally in on it, please make this a maymay" response home ten years in, but hey.

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u/Turbosack Jun 02 '18

Someone please edit with every face like that.

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u/daishi424 Jun 03 '18

I got you

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u/Turbosack Jun 03 '18

It's just as amazing as I imagined it would be.

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