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Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, or simply hacker speech, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet.
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Leetspeak, or 1337, [25] is an alternative alphabet for the English language which uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, Wikipedia may be expressed as "\/\/1|<1p3[)14". It originated from computer hacking, but its use has been extended to online gaming as well.
Algospeak is the use of coded expressions to evade automated moderation algorithms on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube.It is used to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning or downranking of content.
In addition, it is a standard feature of leetspeak [3] and can be used ironically [4] or to mock someone's lack of "techie" knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism; [2] cf. eye dialect.
Leet (or L33t) is an esoteric programming language based loosely on Brainfuck and named for the resemblance of its source code to the symbolic language "L33t 5p34k".L33t was designed by Stephen McGreal [1] and Alex Mole to be as confusing as possible.
The "original" attributed example of calculator spelling, which dates from the 1970s, [4] is 5318008, which when turned over spells "BOOBIES".Another early example of calculator spelling offered the sequence 0.7734, which becomes "hello", or could also be written as 0.1134. [5]
Leetspeak Monsters (stylized as Leetspeak monsters) is a Japanese visual kei rock band whose songs and appearance are centered around Halloween and dark fantasy themes. The band members perform as characters from the fictional city of "Gravetown", with each adopting an archetypal "monster" persona.