“o7” is a saluting text emoji. The ‘o’ represents a head, and the ‘7’ is a raised arm. It’s usually used in internet culture when a fictional character dies, or when one dies in a video game.
Similarly, there’s the “Press F to pay respects meme”, which appeared in a video game cut scene (Call of Duty, I think?), and was adopted into sarcastic use by the internet, so “F” and “o7” are kinda used interchangeably.
Well, I don’t think those are interchangeable. o7 is used like “I salute you” or like “roger that”, while “F” to pay respects is more like “my condolences”.
Yeah, that’s pretty pendatic. Text emoji is kaomoji, which is the Eastern branch of emoticons, so technically it wouldn’t generally include o7, but that’s kinda splitting hairs.
You’re also right, o7 has more broad uses than F, but they do both get used in a usually tongue-in-cheek “condolences” manner. So you can almost always use o7 in the place of F, but not necessarily the other way around.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What is o7? You’ve said it twice.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“o7” is a saluting text emoji. The ‘o’ represents a head, and the ‘7’ is a raised arm. It’s usually used in internet culture when a fictional character dies, or when one dies in a video game.
Similarly, there’s the “Press F to pay respects meme”, which appeared in a video game cut scene (Call of Duty, I think?), and was adopted into sarcastic use by the internet, so “F” and “o7” are kinda used interchangeably.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, I don’t think those are interchangeable. o7 is used like “I salute you” or like “roger that”, while “F” to pay respects is more like “my condolences”.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s pretty pendatic. Text emoji is kaomoji, which is the Eastern branch of emoticons, so technically it wouldn’t generally include o7, but that’s kinda splitting hairs.
You’re also right, o7 has more broad uses than F, but they do both get used in a usually tongue-in-cheek “condolences” manner. So you can almost always use o7 in the place of F, but not necessarily the other way around.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also used in Elite: Dangerous as a radio sign off, “Oh-Seven, Commander.” When you’re leaving the station and a few other scenarios.
Just tossing that out there because that was the first time I came across it.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s an old style ascii salute gesture. In the same vein as
:-)flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Was curious, so I looked it up: knowyourmeme.com/memes/o7-slang