I realize I live with a software engineer but he's at the table with the gang playing an RPG and I've been invited to stop interrupting them, so I'd love it if someone could save me from performing the world's most creative lobotomy with this can of kombucha by telling me why this doesn't work:

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It's supposed to find every occurrence of this in my HTML files so I can replace stuff between the comments, but it DOESN'T FIND ANYTHING, WHY GOD WHY

Don't worry I'm fine