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Short for "rejerk": a tag used in circlejerk-style communities to signal a return to the joke persona after a sincere aside marked with /uj. It tells readers that the parody tone has resumed.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""/uj Thanks for the sincere answers, that helped. /rj Now back to calling this the greatest subreddit ever.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary lists rejerk only as the antonym of unjerk and gives no definition, citations or date; /rj as an abbreviation is not itself listed there, so this expansion is inferred from the paired /uj tag and from the circlejerk usage described in Wikipedia's article on the circle jerk. No dated first use of the tag is documented. It is a tone marker like /s and is much rarer than /uj.

FIRST SEEN
Unknown (no dated first use is documented)
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2010s-2020s (Reddit)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang

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