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5. Silicon Valley’s Hidden Message
Silicon Valley is a show about nerds, by nerds, for nerds. As a result, the producers readily jump aboard any opportunity they have to slip in a nerdy joke or two, be it mathematically calculating the time it takes to jerk off a room of 800 dudes, or sneaking a hidden message into a binary code.
In the instance of the latter, it was a beautifully hidden message snuck into the season five trailer. At one point we see antagonist and all-round dick Gavin Belson standing in front of an enormous screen displaying a series of 0’s and 1’s.
More than just a cool shot, if you were to translate the binary sequence into English, you’d be left with an interesting hidden message:
"Find a hobby for god’s sake."