When browsing in Chrome I often have Inspect open just because. Visiting a time.com article on climate change, I noticed this comment between the
<!doctype> and <html> tags:
<!doctype html> <!-- /((((((\\\\ =======((((((((((\\\\\ (( \\\\\\\ ( (* _/ \\\\\\\ \ / \ \\\\\\________________ | | | </ ((\\\\ o_| / / \ \\\\ \\\\\\\ | ._ ( \ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | / / / \\\\\\\ \\ .______/\/ / / / \\\ / __.____/ _/ ________( /\ / / / ________/`_________' \ / \_ / / \ \ \ \ \_ \ ( < \ \ > / \ \ \/ \\_ / / > ) \_| / / / / _// _// /_| /_| --> <html lang="en">
Ha! I too am a routine Ctrl-Shift-J er.
Usually hiring notifications in there, depending on one’s actions.
In this case, I find the correlation of such iconography sadly entertaining when I consider the source and the topic.
An ASCII portrait of Pope Paul V would be more appropriate in my opinion, though I’m skeptical many employees at time.com would understand, at least in an accepting way, such messaging.
I daresay there is no empirical evidence of unicorns, except in the minds of many, many, people.