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But how do you remember the syntax???
/sarcasm
What's that / mean?
Tone indicators, check internet usage section. Hope this helps!
I think he's searching for sarcasm, no?
quite ironically, they are using syntax, specifically / , to indicate a specific kind of meaning afterward.
/sarcasm
/s
/joking
/j
I've seen all these used to more explicitly indicate that the previous statement was sarcastic, or a joke, due to irony being largely dead, but also to help with people may not natively read/speak/write english.
In html you end a text style with a /
So think of how you put an asterisk around words to bold / italicise them on sm. In html it would be bold or italics. The slash is an "end format" indicator
So /s or /sarcasm means "end sarcasm" and indicates by reasoning that the previous statement was sarcasm.
The diamond brackets got dropped because with them they were being interpreted as actual html commands on early forums