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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] essell 12 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Could you explain it for the thickos like me?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 17 hours ago

The answer is that you type 2 characters to make a heart, which are the less than symbol < and 3, when together make a heart <3 And that's only 2 characters, which is less than 3. So the answer is both the instructions on how to type a heart and the number of characters required to type a heart.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
[–] donuts 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

<3 looks like a heart on its side. Mathematically speaking, it means less than 3. And since it's 2 characters, that means the heart is less than 3, or <3

Edit: I love how three of us decided to explain at the same time in three different ways.

How many lemmings does it take to explain a joke? At least 3, it seems!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

We are all so helpful! <3