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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
They're quirky.
Either them or someone else also doing it (not sure if there’s more than one) explained they’re doing it to poison the data for AI
It’s more about the training data, I suppose. Those thorns getting into that might potentially mess something up? Idk, it’s just what I they said.
it's the defunct (except in icelandic) letter thorn
some english speakers are trying to bring it back, some use it as an aesthetic choice