That is clever.
Could you explain it for the thickos like me?
The answer is that you type 2 characters to make a heart, which are the less than symbol < and 3, when together make a heart <3 And that’s only 2 characters, which is less than 3. So the answer is both the instructions on how to type a heart and the number of characters required to type a heart.
<3
<3 looks like a heart on its side. Mathematically speaking, it means less than 3. And since it’s 2 characters, that means the heart is less than 3, or <3
Edit: I love how three of us decided to explain at the same time in three different ways.
How many lemmings does it take to explain a joke? At least 3, it seems!
We are all so helpful! <3
~3
Man that just looks like a softie.
This feels like something Neil deGrasse Tyson would write.
You can kiss yourself in the mirror. But only on the lips.
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🫀
(OpenBoard android)
♥
(Alt+3)
♡
♥
(Compose Key → < → 3)
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Mark that NSFW man, geez!
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When I met the woman who is now my wife, instead of using <3, she would use <&. This reminded me of the graphic of the mouse from the classic game Rodent’s Revenge. As a result, sometimes instead of saying more traditional expressions of love - textually or verbally - we will simply say “mouse heart.”
It vaguely looks like an anatomical heart that way
True!
I’m old enough to remember when S2 was the common way to draw a heart…
…which ironically is also less than three characters!
I wish I could double up-vote this. It deserves it.
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No the shift key counts too, it takes 2 to make the ‘<‘ plus one more for ‘3’.
Characters, not keystrokes
Plus, I’m a programmer and type <>, (), {}, and [] enough that I have them bound to non-shift keys. So even if we were counting keystrokes, it’d still be fewer than three on my keyboard.
