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lil · 3357 days ago · link · · parent · post: "No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark"
The slash "s" smiley is for irony, right? _refugee_ says that this: :-$ is irony.
It literally translates to "end sarcasm." The slash is a coding symbol in HTML (and possibly other languages) commonly used to indicate an end or a stop of something. For instance if I wanted to bold something I would say <b> and then </b>. I assume reddit helped it evolve although I have seen it around other forums. It would take a programmer, probably, or a math person (/= sometimes is used to mean "does not equal") to be familiar with the use of the slash as such. And I'm sure it started as /sarcasm and went from there. I thought some context might be interesting.