Talk:Akstiletto Prime/@comment-31.130.141.80-20160806173921/@comment-24.23.202.124-20161214105657

they were quote arrows since the invention of email, and their use to invoke an ironic or flippant response has been around since the early days of usenet in the early 90s, but with the rise of threaded discussions and forums they fell in useage, until something awful started using them "ironically", and shortly after hit 4chan, where they became associated with greentexting, and then the rest of the internet from there.

this has been your internet history tidbit for the day