What Does This Mean?

Unjerk

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FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Reddit Parody CommunitiesCLUSTER: reddit_parody_slang

To stop joking along in a circlejerk-style community and speak sincerely for a moment; the opposite is rejerk, a return to the joke. Some subreddits mark a serious comment with a short tag for this.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""/uj the actual rules of that game are more complicated than the joke makes them sound.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary defines unjerk as a verb meaning to cease participating in a circle jerk, with rejerk as the antonym, and gives no first-use date. Circlejerk subreddits trace back to r/circlejerk, created on December 10, 2008 according to Know Your Meme.

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