Petronia Radio

[petronia]

• 00:45 WTF WTF I just got a backwards LJ comment notification #
• 00:47 I can't even recopy it here because it highlights and pastes normally, I'll have to take a screencap #
• 00:47 srsly guys this is creepy #
• 00:48 is my Gmail possessed or am I going to die #

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[cis.livejournal.com]

was it me?

is it cos i invoked the name of sleeper three times OH NOES

[petronia.livejournal.com]

XD No it was an otherwise normal beta reader signup from SSBB!

[cis.livejournal.com]

get the person to reply again and see if that comes up backwards too!

(the weird thing is how the view all comments link is...fine!)

[arboretum]

ahaha can you take a screencap XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

See post again!

[arboretum]

AMAZING

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

aaaah wtf! TAKE A SCREENCAP

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I just did it's in the post!

D:

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

AHHHH HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

‮The magic of Unicode. :D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

:O There's a code for that??

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202e/index.htm

It's hard to imagine non-lols uses for it. :/

[petronia.livejournal.com]

That is kind of amazing but... why would Gmail have inserted that randomly into my notification... XD;

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mike/]

The sun symbol is the clue--for some reason, it's gotten included in the 'cut and paste this for backwardness!' chunk that people pass around. (why some lines are reversed and not others... probably depends on how the html is structured? only view source knows for sure!)

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Are we all going to die now we've seen that?! D: D: D:

[narie.livejournal.com]

That's REALLY CREEPY!

although trying this tack on a computer science major is ...

[analyse.livejournal.com]

could it be that your laptop is possessed...? :D

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

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*impressed*

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

it almost creeps me out MORE that it's not entirely backwards. almost.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly weird. Thank goodness when I checked my mail a while back, it came up normal. (Or as normal as Gmail gets.)

Did you figure out what caused it?

:)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

According to _mike above, a bit of Unicode that ended up where it wasn't supposed to be. But how, is the question. XD;