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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })<article>note Which 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 BB Code-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>".
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })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.:
Or, on occasion, by (t)csh environment variables:
but that usage has largely been supplanted by more-approachable HTML.
The successor phenomena is #HashtagForLaughs
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