The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?
Edit: auto correct on ‘someone’
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Think of it as “regarding the container rather than the content.”
Say a person has never played Fallout 4, but they’ve played Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, they can use *meta* knowledge of the Fallout series to succeed at Fallout 4 despite it being a new game to them. If they were *just* taking inspiration from Fallout 4, they’d face a learning curve to acclimate to the controls.
Say a Reddit commenter uses a standard Reddit comment to get upvoted. Their comment was not inspired by the post but by the platform, they’re using meta knowledge of Reddit to get approval on their comment. If they were just referencing the comment, they would not receive as many upvotes.
So you see, it’s a reference to the container not the content.
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