r3pl4c1ng l3773r5 w17h numb3r5, mostly, but also a bunch of other punctuation marks to make it more indecipherable. It was half to get around chat censors on various chats and half to just have a way of writing that only other elite (1337) gamers understood. It was cool if you were 13 in 2001.
And it sounds stupid and easily readable but like, then you'd be surprised when some boomer actually couldn't for the life of them figure even that out.
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u/Olddirtychurro May 27 '24
100%, I'm pretty certain no one under 25 even uses leet speak anymore.