The Picard ManeuverThe style at the time :)
go $fsck yourselfApparently in some other languages they just use ))) or some crazy number of parentheses, like )))))))
It shouldn’t bug me as much as it does, but c’mon, it doesn’t even look like a face!
Sterile_Techniqueiirc one of the Asian languages pronounces the number 4 as “ha” so instead of typing things like “LOL” they’ll just spam 4 to respond to something funny.
The parenthesis thing is probably something similar. We’ve all got weird linguistic quirks; the digital era just dumps fuel on the fire.
Thai: 555
My brain automatically read this like N’Sync’s “bye bye byyye” lol