F5 sect

[Zipporah Schumaker]

[F5] is the function key to refresh a page on PC.
In Chinese/Japanese translation Web Novel and Light Novel communities, authors/translators will often have a regular time of the day that theyll upload the latest chapter. Practitioners of the F5 Sect have been known to repeatedly spam the F5 key near [these times] in the hope of being the first one to access the new chapter, and thus have the opportunity to make the [first comment].
The Sect is a joke referring to how many of the Chinese novels having martial practitioners belonging to various [Sects] (Clans, groups, etc.).
Therefore the users who single-mindedly hit the F5 key in pursuit of first comment ironically reflect the focus thatd be required of a martial cultivator in many of the novels that they are reading.