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Can someone please explain the animation?

According to this question, the lovely hats are supposed to start on December 14. Today is the 4th, why 13:04 is being displayed? Or is it something else? These little guys confuse me.

WUT

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    So 13184, not 13:04.
    – ThisSuitIsBlackNot
    Commented Dec 4, 2015 at 20:43
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    Fun fact: The little men are the souls from deleted accounts.
    – user1228
    Commented Dec 4, 2015 at 21:18
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    @Will Funny, I would think there would be more. Unless most deleted accounts have no souls? (I would believe it.)
    – Kendra
    Commented Dec 4, 2015 at 21:32
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    The number 1 appears as two disjoint segments, because the algorithm uses seven-segment display to represent numbers, allowing some distance between the segments. One can see small gaps in other digits, but with 1 it is particularly noticeable, to the point that it can be confused for :.
    – user3717023
    Commented Dec 4, 2015 at 22:55
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    Can't we add more people? The numbers would be better understood, and more deleted accounts would be accounted for.
    – Jorge Leitao
    Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 20:21
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    This sort of completely pointless nonsense that is neither funny nor interesting should be deleted from the site.
    – Fattie
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 4:10
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    I want to offer a 500-rep bounty on this question to express my extreme confusion as to what the hell those people are trying to spell out! ...Except this isn't meta.SE, so, I won't ;-)
    – Josh
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 5:09
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    @JoeBlow Wow, did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? )
    – DavidG
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 11:00
  • @JoeBlow more like Joe Schmo
    – user1228
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 15:13

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It's a countdown clock in minutes, until the nonsense...err...fun of hats begins!

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    Inventive but not very useful. Could it be tweaked to show day, hours and minutes instead?
    – Lightness Races in Orbit
    Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 18:28
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    @LightnessRacesinOrbit I'm not sure we would make an adjustment for this year's countdown, maybe in the future.
    – Taryn
    Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 18:36
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    I like it, very cool. Wouldn't worry about making it more "useful", after all it's just a bit of fun. Nice job.
    – DavidG
    Commented Dec 6, 2015 at 20:40
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    Any chance to get that script released? I'd really like to tinker with it.
    – Burhan Khalid
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 5:01
  • @BurhanKhalid you mean this ?
    – Thomas Ayoub
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 11:54
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    @Thomas, yes, but the un-deflated version of it.
    – Burhan Khalid
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 12:18
  • @BurhanKhalid easy, see here
    – Thomas Ayoub
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 12:21
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    @Thomas function i(e, t, n, i, a, s, r, h) isn't really helpful for understanding the code :|
    – user1228
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 15:14
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    @Will Comments are for the weak!
    – AlbertEngelB
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 16:10
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    When scientists write code.
    – Maroun
    Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 16:28

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