Remember when text was text, and rich text was usually HTML, instead of being uploaded as a JPEG? Wait, no, that only happened in an alternate universe. Though for some reason, some of you do remember, and you put up text versions and thank you if you did.
Bandwagon time! This comes from Mastodon, largely via mawr indirectly (I think they did the gradients?). All answers will be cross-posted in both directions (comments or batch posts here, replies to this status there). I've increased the contrast some in the HTML rendition. Nobody seems to have any idea where this came from originally, so I'm assuming it's free-floating? Ish? Such chaos!
I'm not sure how well we can answer a lot of these, so it'll be an interesting challenge…
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