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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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”.

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an old style ascii salute gesture. In the same vein as :-)

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was curious, so I looked it up: knowyourmeme.com/memes/o7-slang

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