The 'Silicon Valley' Season 5 trailer contained an incredible hidden message

Brush up on your binary.
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Not since Futurama have we had such excellent binary jokes.

The trailer for Silicon Valley Season 5 has been out for a few weeks not, but it contains a hidden message you still may not have seen.

At one point in the trailer we see antagonist extraordinaire and exploiter of exotic animals Gavin Belson standing in front of a screen displaying binary code.

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Hidden in the first few lines is a message, visible if you translate them from binary into English.

When translated:

"01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01100010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101011 01100101"

Becomes:

"Find a hobby for God's sake."

Silicon Valley is no stranger to taking elaborate nerd jokes to their extremes, having actually employed a mathematician to write a paper on the "Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency" dick-joke from Season 1.

Well played Belson, well played.

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