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Generally /s means “I’m being sarcastic” Answer from Beefnfries on reddit.com

September 24, 2011 - /S: The /S is known as the sarcasm switch. When you are typing a post use it at the end of your post so people know you are actually being sarcastic.

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r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: What is / s?

October 25, 2023 -

I’m new to Reddit and I’ve seen a couple posts with /s or /t What does it mean and are there other /letters that have some sort of meaning?

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Generally /s means “I’m being sarcastic”

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/s is sarcasm. Not sure what /t is though.

reddit.com › r/ayudamexico › why did "/s" start being used as an indicator of sarcasm?

r/ayudamexico on Reddit: Why did "/s" start being used as an indicator of sarcasm?

February 28, 2025 -

Lately I've noticed that more and more communities are implementing "/s" to indicate sarcasm, but who started it?

Why is it considered more viable compared to what other communities do to indicate sarcasm (like those who use a certain emoticon or emoji to indicate it)?

It's just curiosity.

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It's been used on Reddit for over fifteen years. Americans started using it to indicate sarcasm because it uses the same format as if you were mentioning a sub like r/ayudamexico . Online, "(?" or some emojis are also often used more recently, but "/s" is specific to Reddit. Don't use it outside of here because nobody will understand you haha.

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for people who don't understand what sarcasm is and take it very seriously

reddit.com › r/nostupidquestions › what is the meaning of "/s"?

r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: What is the meaning of "/s"?

November 24, 2013 -

I'm really new to reddit and my friends keep on saying "/s" after I say something. I'm really lost as to what this means. Thanks.

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"/s" is suppose to imply sarcasm.

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I hope your friends aren't saying /s in real life conversations.

reddit.com › r/help › /s meaning on reddit? thanks

r/help on Reddit: /s meaning on Reddit? Thanks

April 28, 2022 - The slash / is used in HTML code to designate the end of a tag. /s is a joke tag meaning "end of sarcasm".

reddit.com › r/outoftheloop › what’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?

r/OutOfTheLoop on Reddit: What’s the deal with adding /s to the end of comments?

January 3, 2020 -

https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ei8kub/new_year_meme/fcoexhd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf link to an example of this. Does it mean sarcasm? I’m too afraid to ask anywhere else.

Thanks, it does, in fact, mean sarcasm

Edit: I have been told that I could have just googled the answer but I only started either seeing or noticing it recently and when I put in /s to the r/OutOfTheLoop search bar nothing came up... thank you for a possibly unnecessary amount of answers for such a stupid question.

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Answer: the literal translation is "end sarcasm ", indicating the preceding text was in a sarcastic tone. Anything after should be in a serious tone.

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Answer: In html, you use tags to change the way something looks. So if you want bold, you type . That says “turn on bold”. Then you type what you want bold, and when you don’t want it bold anymore, you type . So that turns off bold. People use this same convention to indicate sarcasm, they just don’t use the brackets because some forums won’t show the brackets, it will actually do the thing instead of showing up in the text.

reddit.com › r/help › what does /s mean

r/help on Reddit: what does /s mean

November 28, 2022 -

i've seen this a few times, it's nothing worrying but I'm now wondering what it means. they put /s at the end of their comment. is it a command?

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/s means sarcasm. As in Wow, I like your shirt. /s

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What Does “/S” Mean on Reddit? | ITGeared

September 27, 2022 - Reddit is one of the forums people engage in discussing given topics. When viewing comments written by others, you may come across “/s” added to people’s comments. The term is often used to mean sarcasm.

reddit.com › r/novonoreddit › what does /s mean?

r/NovoNoReddit on Reddit: What does /s mean?

May 6, 2025 -

I just read it in a post and I don't know what it is.

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The /s means sarcasm. People use "/s" to avoid being misunderstood when they're writing sarcastically.

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Over the years, Internet users eventually settled on using /s to denote sarcastic statements. (They first bookended sarcastic statements with HTML-like tags, which was pretty neat.) /s is especially prevalent on Reddit, which has a disproportionally sarcastic user base.

reddit.com › r/help › what do the “m” “l” and “s” descriptors mean on posts?

r/help on Reddit: What do the “M” “L” and “S” Descriptors mean on posts?

December 28, 2018 -

So I’ve been seeing descriptors near post titles that is just one letter like M,L, and S on posts on r/maliciouscompliance and r/entitledparents. I have literally NO clue what it means... and I couldn’t find anything about it online. Is it like a post category or somethin?

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That's post flair, the flairs in those subs indicate the length of the post (S - short, M - medium, L - long).

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Ohhhh thx! Now I undestand!

reddit.com › r/nostupidquestions › does /s mean sarcasm or serious?

r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: Does /s mean sarcasm or serious?

March 24, 2022 - /s means sarcasm and /srs means serious. Something you can use to remember is that the word serious starts and ends with an s. So /srs would make since.

reddit.com › r/help › what is \s?

r/help on Reddit: What is \s?

November 27, 2024 -

Hi there. I’ve been posting and mostly reading and upvoting on posts but have no idea how to do what others are doing and sometimes don’t even know what they’re talking about for instance with the \s. Where do l find advanced use? Others format their paragraphs and fonts. I want to do it too! 😉

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r/encyclopaediaofreddit has the lists of acronyms and abbreviations commonly used on Reddit. This is the first and you can navigate to the others at the bottom. The encyclopaediaofreddit is a good resource also for other Reddit terminology you may not know The help center also has this list .

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'/s' or many times also 'kappa' is used for showing that the text was meant as sarcasm

reddit.com › r/nostupidquestions › what does /j and /s mean?

r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: What does /j and /s mean?

December 10, 2020 -

I keep seeing this all over twitter and it’s hurting my brain trying to figure out what it means

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these are called tone indicators /j stands for joke /s stands for sarcastic

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/s means that whatever the person said before is meant sarcastically. I've never seen /j but I would guess it means the same ("j" for "joking") The etymology explains why it's written with a slash: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%2Fs#Etymology

reddit.com › r/fuckthes › what does “/s” mean, and why some people like on this subreddit hate it?

r/FuckTheS on Reddit: What does “/s” mean, and why some people like on this subreddit hate it?

November 26, 2023 - When I first joined Reddit, I thought the s meant it was to be taken seriously.

reddit.com › r/help › what does /s stands for? saw many people using this

r/help on Reddit: What does /s stands for? Saw many people using this

July 1, 2024 - For the longest time I thought /j was for jokes, and /s was for serious... ... back in the forum days i used to think /g meant giggity but i think it just meant joke, like dumb laugh

reddit.com › r/theoryofreddit › what's with the /s/ links?

r/TheoryOfReddit on Reddit: What's with the /s/ Links?

March 2, 2024 -

Automod in bestof claims that they aren't useful for mobile users. I've used them and don't see any difference. What's the downside of https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/1YXen1RYTE versus https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1atv3eo/why_are_so_many_drugs_laced_with_fentanyl_if_its/kr13q7s/?context=3&share_id=QFZmigrMS61DIAWaEuhHR ?

Thanks, in advance!

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I assume they are generated on demand and thus allow reddit to track from which user various visitors came. What I most notice is that my bookmarking service doesn't get the title of the post when feeding it a share link, so I have to manually copy and paste it. That's one of the reasons I dislike tracking urls. They also just add unneeded hops, making visiting the page slower. Unfortunately it appears forced upon me now by the app.

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Share links with unique tracking. Tiktok pioneered them. With the former link, Reddit knows exactly who sent the link and who clicked it. With the latter, people or platforms usually delete the extra parameters.

reddit.com › r/nostupidquestions › what does /s mean?

r/NoStupidQuestions on Reddit: what does /s mean?

January 25, 2024 -

I've seen a lot of people making jokes about this on Reddit recently. I searched it up and apparently, it means sarcasm, however, if you include a note that essentially says "this is sarcastic" doesn't that ruin the joke?

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/s is a defense against poe's law. If you don't add it then people will take you seriously. Sarcasm doesn't carry well in text since you can't convey things like tone, facial expression, and body language.

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Need a Sarcastica font

reddit.com › r/help › what does /s mean in reddit?

What does /s mean in Reddit? : r/help

January 4, 2019 - It's to denote sarcasm.

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“/s”: Meaning, Usage & Examples | Linguaholic Blog

April 10, 2023 - It is used to denote sarcasm within online communities, specifically on Reddit forums and other online message boards. For the physicists and scientists out there, /s is a mathematical notation that means per second.