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Translingual
Triple parentheses
Etymology 1
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Symbol
((( ))) matched pairs
mul dated texting ((( ))) Denotes a hug.Smith 2016 2016-06-01 Anthony Smith; Cooper Fleishman w:Mic (((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online https://www.mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-symbol-neo-nazis-use-to-target-jews-online https://web.archive.org/web/20190512022438/https://www.mic.com/articles/144228/echoes-exposed-the-secret-symbol-neo-nazis-use-to-target-jews-online 2019-05-12 In the early days of the social web, putting someone's name in multiple parentheses was meant to give that person a cute virtual hug.
en Cayce: Sometimes I feel like I havent got a friend in the world.Jessie: (((Cayce)))
Usage notes
The name of the person being hugged is placed within the parentheses; earlier uses showed a variable number of parentheses.
The parentheses are still used on modern social media with the word hug(s) inside, but very rarely a person's name.2025-02-13T17:59:48Z MelissaJoanHart 1890098568066920949 Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Joan Hart https://megalodon.jp/2026-0721-0316-31/https://x.com:443/MelissaJoanHart/status/1890098568066920949 2026-07-20 (((Hugs))) 1
Etymology 2
alt=((( )))|thumb|en visual representation of (((echo))) (mul Q24952543)
A practice started by the anti-Semitic podcast The Daily Shoah, hosted on the far-right blog The Right Stuff (blog) The Right Stuff, with the claim that all Jewish surnames "echo" throughout history, reflecting alleged involvement in conspiracies.Smith 2016
Symbol
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mul Q24952543 mul neo-Nazism white supremacist offensive ((( ))) Encloses the name of somebody or something of Jewish background, or by extension anything thought to be insidiously controlled by Jews.
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en mul 2017-07-12 Brian Fung https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/12/even-4chan-is-opposing-the-republican-plan-for-net-neutrality/ Even 4chan Is Opposing the Republican Plan for Net Neutrality w:The Washington Post "Hopefully /pol/ can be unanimous on this, and not disagree with it just to be ironic or edgy. "Just this once," wrote another user, who added that as much as he or she hated "agreeing with liberal[s]… they're right on this one. (((internet service providers))) will get way too much power if we let them." https://archive.ph/i3ujZ 2017-07-12
en mul https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/neuroscientist-who-wrote-antisemitic-and-racist-tweets-dies-by-suicide-657933 Neuroscientist Who Wrote Antisemitic and Racist Tweets Dies by Suicide 2021-02-05 Ben Sales w:The Jerusalem Post Van Alphen’s account on Gab features a slew of bigoted posts written between 2016 and 2019. The most recent, posted more than a year ago, reads “HBO’s Watchmen is just as pozzed you’d expect given its (((writer))). ” https://archive.ph/Lu1lH 2021-02-25
Paragraph 7, Chabloz v Crown Prosecution Service [2019] EWHC 3094 (Admin)
The first two charges against the applicant in the present case were that on or about 28 September 2016, contrary to section 127(1)(b) [of the Communications Act 2003], she had caused to be sent by means of a public electronic communications network, namely the internet, a message or matter that was grossly offensive, being a hyperlink on her blog to two performances of her antisemitic songs entitled "Nemo's Antisemitic Universe" and "(((Survivors)))".
en mul You Wait For A Signal While Your People Wait For You w:Payton Gendron https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/spree-killer-manifesto.pdf 2022-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20220517023051/https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/spree-killer-manifesto.pdf 2022-05-17 55 Fiat currency gives central banks greater control over the economy because they can control how much currency is printed, and you want to know (((who))) is behind those central banks?
Repurposes or reclaims the preceding sense to indicate anybody in solidarity with Jews.en 2016-06-03 Jason Koebler Jews Are Taking Back (((Echoes))) from the Neo-Nazis Motherboard (website) Motherboard http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/jews-are-taking-back-echoes-from-the-neo-nazis https://web.archive.org/web/20160607065027/http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/jews-are-taking-back-echoes-from-the-neo-nazis 2016-06-07en 2016-06-09 Jason Silverstein w:New York Daily News The Neo-Nazi (((Echoes))) Symbol http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/echoes-means-twitter-article-1.2667546 https://web.archive.org/web/20160610144030/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/echoes-means-twitter-article-1.2667546 2016-06-10
en mul 2016-06-03 Jason Koebler Jews Are Taking Back (((Echoes))) from the Neo-Nazis Motherboard (website) Motherboard http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/jews-are-taking-back-echoes-from-the-neo-nazis https://web.archive.org/web/20160607065027/http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/jews-are-taking-back-echoes-from-the-neo-nazis 2016-06-07 Rosenberg’s Twitter name is now (((Yair Rosenberg))); Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg’s name is now (((Goldberg))); Foreign Policy fellow Jamie Kirchick is (((Jamie Kirchick))) and so on.
Usage notes
The triple parentheses are also used by antisemites, neo-Nazis and white nationalists to mark anyone for harassment.
Derived terms
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References
Further reading
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