the ops is this bi- called emily

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(despite how it looks, this is actually a super complicated code. i took the message, ran it through a caesar cipher [A is E, B is F, and so on], converted it into hexadecimal, converted that into binary, converted that to hexadecimal, then added up every instance of the number 30, then converted it to hexadecimal thrice, then added up every instance of 33 and 20, then converted that to binary, then to hexadecimal, then added up every number, then converted it to hexadecimal, then repeated the last 2 steps twice more. the message was, "His stick is better than bacon.")