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[–] Agent641 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

What does the number mean?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago

Ha, you fool! It’s your cuteness on a scale of 10

[–] Valmond 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's old reddit lore IIRC, maybe someone remembers it here?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

195, the OG subreddit, was a number of a flat or uni dorm of the founder of it, and as it got closed 196 became the sequel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

So that's why it's called "apartment of awesome". TIL.

[–] johsny 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

As an outsider, I’ve been wondering the exact same thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

1 + 9 = 10 = J
10 + 6 = 16 = P

It's a reference to television chef Jean-Pierre Bréhier, who has over 2 million subscribers on youtube.

JP opened his first restaurant in the US in 1976. "Coincidentally" called the Left bank.

[–] johsny 4 points 20 hours ago

Ah! Of course.