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Whats the significance of this 

/grim

Any ideas?  
 Context?

Here's one possibility. Sometimes nerds will use html-style "closing tags" when they type stuff, like:

/sarcasm

Meaning "That was sarcasm. Now back to serious."

So maybe /grim is like "that was grim, but we're moving on" 
 So this is a riddle/puzzle clue. The word /grim is the most recent clue to the next part of the riddle/puzzle. So the context itself is within the word, i just feel like it has to do with some hacker/coder culture that im missing since im not one. So im trying to approach it from 80iq angles. 😆