Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp

Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by bromuro on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:27AM (#16104749)

I never understand this 3, 2, 1 comments I see often on reddit ... and on HN ... what do they mean? Is something from the US television?

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by unwind on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:12AM (#16104946)

I think so (I'm not from the US), it's in the TV Tropes set: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThreeTwoOne.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by deepakkarki on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @04:45AM (#16104828)

It's more like a countdown to tell how quickly something is going to happen. In this case whatsapp blocking browserling.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by bromuro on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:16AM (#16104957)

And is the countdown supposed to make the comment funnier or what? I was supposing a joke from a tv show or something else I don’t get.

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:34AM (#16105038)

The countdown simply means “quickly”, “in no time” or “very soon”. You can read the comment as “This gets blocked on WhatsApp’s end very soon.”

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Re:Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to u... by jccalhoun on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:51AM (#16106098)

no, it isn't a reference to a specific thing.

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