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The explanation is about as understandable as the JS code, however thanks OP, TIL
The line breaks haven't worked, here's it formatted correctly:
Explanation: it's mostly due to how js does type conversion.
For the Ls, it's:
for the o it's:
Iirc this is called "JSFuck", and it has a number of compilers
The idea behind it is not that complicated to explain... They set up a construct that spits out the word "false" and one that spits out "[object Object]". Taking the character with the Index of 2 from "false" gives us the "l" (the "2" to use as the index is of course also created using only brackets and parentheses). The character with the index of 1 from "[object Object]" is "o". So we have everything we need to spell out "lol".
There's a nice presentation that explains this behaviour quite understandable: https://youtu.be/sRWE5tnaxlI
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