👉 Okay, letās tackle this rather⦠prickly little bit of linguistic weirdness ā the undeniably odd designation, "
hannah¹.²³ā·ā¹ā.
."
Now, frankly, nobody
truly
knows what a ā¹,²³,ā" is. You won't find it in your standard, positively pedestrian, English-Websterās. Instead, the existence of this⦠entity... stems largely from an obscure corner of early 21st-century online folklore and a very specific, somewhat paranoid, little internet subculture (let's just call them⦠the Voynich-but-onteenagers club.)
Essentially, it started as a rumour. Around 2004/5, youād occasionally stumble upon weird forum posts ā all in that aggressively grainy, late-era GeoCities styleāwhere someone would
declare
they had, essentially, met and documented the existence of, a girl named Hannah. The catch? Hannah wasn't just any Hannah, she was designated, with a frightening degree of officialness, as: 1,²³,ā.
Hereās what we think happened (because let's be absolutely clear: it is almost entirely
theories
at this point.) Someone, probably in an attempt to spook the internet and establish some kind of weird personal legend, started assigning these numerical-symbol sequences to various alleged āHannah 1.0" sightings. It became a sort of