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You know, I was just joking, but turns out, Middle Endian really does exist!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-Endian
And it's just as crazy as one'd think. It's a 32bit value consisting of two 16bit little endian words jumbled together in big endian. So the byte order is B A D C.
Whenever I think "This is a really stupid idea, nobody would do that", turns out, someone actually did that.
oh lord why but that is about what i thought itd be