Elite

it’s not “just letters” — it’s a rewritten alphabet built from chaos.

this set of encoded glyphs flips normal english on its head so that anyone new to it just looks like they sprained their eyes reading it.

what folks call elite, leet, i33t, or 1337 didn’t spring fully formed from history at once — it started in the 90s as a meme-fuelled way to flex on message boards, and somehow within a few heartbeats of that decade it crystallized into the universal 1337 alphabet that the early internet trembled under.

but don’t imagine it was perfect right out of the gate — it mutated through several versions, each more bewildering, until the one we all recognize now emerged to befuddle everyone and anyone who tries to read it with normal grammar.