{"id":48957407,"user":"NewsaHackO","time":1784376790,"time_ago":"21 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

If i remember correctly, some other places of the internet (4chan) completely this sort of behavior because people use it to hide images of ...unsavory topics","comments":[{"id":48958817,"user":"Gander5739","time":1784387333,"time_ago":"18 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I think you dropped a word.","comments":[{"id":48960066,"user":"SonOfLilit","time":1784395147,"time_ago":"15 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's an onomatopoeia","comments":[{"id":48960804,"user":"Gander5739","time":1784399561,"time_ago":"14 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

You mean an onomatope (to be pendantic)? In any case, it's not clear to me exactly what you mean.","comments":[{"id":48962921,"user":"tosti","time":1784412331,"time_ago":"11 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Someone accidentally the whole thing.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=48962921"},{"id":48962717,"user":"SonOfLilit","time":1784410820,"time_ago":"11 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Apparently "onomatope" is a much less popular name for the same thing (e.g. Wikipedia uses my version).

I mean that the "remove a word" 'symbol' is a 'word' that represents the verb he was trying to invoke, by sounding like it.

Birds chirp, bees buzz, moderators, toilets flush.","comments":[{"id":48962888,"user":"Gander5739","time":1784412089,"time_ago":"11 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Apologies if I'm being totally thick, but you're saying the lack of a word is acting as an onomatope (or an onomatopoeia if you prefer)?","comments":[{"id":48965347,"user":"SonOfLilit","time":1784440363,"time_ago":"3 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes. You could say this is the sound of silence.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=48965347"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=48962888"}],"comments_count":2,"level":3,"url":"item?id=48962717"}],"comments_count":4,"level":2,"url":"item?id=48960804"}],"comments_count":5,"level":1,"url":"item?id=48960066"}],"comments_count":6,"level":0,"url":"item?id=48958817"}],"comments_count":7,"url":"item?id=48957407"}

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