Of course it is. Next you'll be telling me horseradishing passwords is a thing, too!

But, seriously - that's interesting to know, so TYVM for the opportunity to learn.

so if I'm understanding correctly: salting is adding characters that are hard coded to write to a password upon creation, whereas peppering adds completely random and unknown characters to a password?

Your comment made me curious, so I tracked it down. The "comic" was used with an article on differential privacy written by a publication called "ad exchanger" and the ad symbol on the outfit is their logo.

I'm dumb, yeah its just a regular "a" and I have no idea why I thought it was backwards lol