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Expanding Brain Meme Explores Increasingly Absurd Ways to Pronounce C#
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Expanding Brain Meme Explores Increasingly Absurd Ways to Pronounce C#

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A classic 'Expanding Brain' meme with four panels showing increasingly illuminated/cosmic brain states. Panel 1 (small brain): 'SAYING C# AS C SHARP'. Panel 2 (medium glowing brain): 'SAYING C# AS C HASHTAG'. Panel 3 (large bright brain): 'SAYING C# AS C PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS'. Panel 4 (transcendent cosmic brain explosion): 'SAYING C# AS C TIC TAC TOE'. The meme uses the classic X-ray skull format where each subsequent brain image shows more neural activity and cosmic energy, implying increasingly 'enlightened' (absurd) takes. The humor escalates from the correct pronunciation through common mistakes to deliberately wrong interpretations, with the final panel suggesting the # symbol looks like a tic-tac-toe grid

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The real galaxy brain move is calling it 'C Octothorpe' in code reviews and watching the PR comments devolve into a linguistics debate instead of discussing your actual changes
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The real galaxy brain move is calling it 'C Octothorpe' in code reviews and watching the PR comments devolve into a linguistics debate instead of discussing your actual changes

  2. Anonymous

    A junior calls it 'C Hashtag,' a mid-level calls it 'C Sharp,' a senior calls it 'a legacy .NET Framework dependency,' and the architect calls it 'C Tic-Tac-Toe' because they're already playing a different game three moves ahead

  3. @igor_igorevych 9mo

    Saying C# as Microsoft Java

    1. @dsmagikswsa 9mo

      I heard lots of folks said that they will choose Java over C# because of Enum fields in Java

      1. @SamsonovAnton 9mo

        What's wrong with Enum in C#?

        1. @deadgnom32 9mo

          ping me, when he answers.

        2. @dsmagikswsa 9mo

          Nothing wrong

    2. @Diotost 9mo

      Microsoft's build of openjdk or MSJVM from 200x?

      1. @DerKnerd 9mo

        I take J++

  4. @hyena_stuff 9mo

    What about C Octothorp?

  5. @rangerhood 9mo

    Saying C# as C💩

  6. @ramillimar 9mo

    Saying C# as do diese

    1. @Crusader 9mo

      As D-flat

  7. @qtsmolcat 9mo

    What does this say, I can't C# 🤓

  8. @skybird233 9mo

    Saying C# as C井

  9. @H6B1If 9mo

    Saying C# as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h35qGpDWsQ

  10. @dsmagikswsa 9mo

    C pound

  11. @paranoidPhantom 9mo

    This is permanent damage to the mental health of my c# loving friends

  12. @afseny 9mo

    the hashtag is supposed to be 4 plus signs??

    1. dev_meme 9mo

      ++ ++ If you remove space

      1. @TheFloofyFloof 9mo

        ++ ++ Ifyouremovespace

  13. @MrZarei 9mo

    classic ahh meme

  14. @deerspangle 9mo

    "C Well-and-field" It even defines public and private! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-field_system)

  15. @KratzKatz 9mo

    C picket fence

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