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OP: Has anyone noticed that Twitter-style hashtags have replaced HTML-style coding as meta-commentary on the Internet?

Person responding:

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<article>^noteWhich is now real HTML as of HTML5.

On blogs and Internet discussion forums, when participants use the SGML-style tags popularized by HTML (or sometimes BBCode-style tags) to accentuate their messages.

For example <sarcasm>...</sarcasm>, <rant>...</rant>, and <cough>...</cough>.

Sometimes these tags can include attributes such as <flame tone="angry">...</flame>.

Oftentimes the opening tag will be omitted and only the closing tag will be there, as a kind of self-conscious lampshade hung on the preceding flame/rant/etc. It is also used to show that a sarcastic rant mocking the opposite side of some debate is just that. Everyone KNOWS that first person is good wiki syntax, after all. </thattroper>

Can also be used in image macros. Note that not all edited photos are image macros: Some humorous pictures are seen on the 'Net, such as a man with "</head> <body>" tatooed on his neck or a tombstone with "</life>".

Anti-war candidate Darcy Burner wore a T-shirt with </WAR> on it in several photos.

</unsubscribe> is occasionally used on Usenet to indicate that one is unsubscribing from a thread. However, the proper use should be either </subscribe> (to indicate that the subscription is ending) or <unsubscribe /> (XML empty tag to indicate an unsubscription). It probably means, though, that the person has just finished the process of unsubscribing. </justifyingedit>

This used to be done with faux C preprocessor directives, e.g.:

#ifdef FLAME

#endif

Or, on occasion, by (t)csh environment variables:

setenv PRETENTIOUS ON

but that usage has largely been supplanted by more-approachable HTML.

The successor phenomena is #HashtagForLaughs.

Examples:

Comic Strips

FoxTrot: In the September 23, 2001 strip, Jason uses some kind of made-up language that nevertheless sounds Java-like to automate his homework assignment. It features lines like "IF endOfPage(book, page, word)" and "get (pencil)".

Live-Action TV

MythBusters: Adam sometimes wears a T-shirt that says "<Mythbuster> Am I missing an eyebrow? </Mythbuster>".
Scorpion: The show's title is stylized as </scorpion>. To a programmer, that would read as "End Scorpion".

Literature

B to the F: The Novelization of the Feature Film: Ryan describes the brief scuffle between Marty and Biff in Lou's Cafe after George's attempt to ask Lorraine out.

Music

Mili: The world.execute(me); videoclip shows its lyrics as a Java code instead of as text, which reflects how it's sung from the perspective of a computer program.

Roleplays

Destroy the Godmodder: Frequently used by posters both to denote OOC reactions to the game's events (e.g. /sarcasm) or to indicate that their posts should be processed differently from a conventional post (e.g. using /nullpost to indicate that a post is RP-only).

Video Games

Deltarune: In the Japanese localization, Queen's dialogue is placed in <!--HTML comments-->.
Loot Box Quest: After getting a script to write code, the game shows "while(true) { doJob; } //This was way easier than I thought".

Webcomics

The Hero of Three Faces: In one strip, the Twelfth Doctor responds to being told that a space station crew is having food transmatted into their bodies for efficiency with "Oh, well. Sarcasm tag, that stuff never goes wrong, close sarcasm tag."

Western Animation

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Dendy changes the color of her headband from #0090FF (a slightly greenish blue) to K.O.'s #FF0000 (red).

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