First They Came For The Em Dashes

Developers Tech culture Parody Historical reference Typography Holocaust poem Em dash

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First They Came For The Em Dashes

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OMG, this is the MOST DRAMATIC poem of programmer persecution complex I've ever seen! 😭 It's a parody of the famous "First they came..." Holocaust poem but about PUNCTUATION and CODING, which is just SO EXTRA I can't even! The meme tragically chronicles the downfall of civilization through typography—first the em dashes (—) disappear, then the artists, then writers, until finally... THE PROGRAMMERS! And by then there's no one left to create a Stack Overflow thread about it! The absolute TRAGEDY of it all! *faints dramatically onto keyboard*

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