The left arm of the popular shrug dude ASCII art doesn't show up in my message

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Did you try typing two \ instead of a single one so that it’s seen as a character and not a command/markup?

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Testing:

Using single backslash: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Using double backslash: ¯\(ツ)

Thanks, I didn’t know about it.

Use three backslash, like on Reddit, to remove the italic:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe add another backslash before the last underscore, to be extra sure that no underscores are interpreted as italics:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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