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^This is a single-word demonstratives and indication used to show agreement with previous posts used on internet forums and image boards. Besides it’s usage as a single-word text post, it has also gained usage with image macros and GIF animations of characters and people pointing upwards.
Background
In linguistics, demonstratives indicate objects the speaker the refers to. Demonstratives are used to either point towards objects in the physical surroundings of the speaker or the listener, or to include abstract concepts where the meaning is something other than the objects in the physical location of the speaker, such as whether something is currently being said or was said earlier. The most common demonstratives used in the English language are this, that, these and those, in which the usage differs on the location of the objects in the vicinity and to differentiate single and plural.
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