• Klear@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Three, actually. The backslash disappears because it’s used up to cancel the undescores (italics in markdown). By doubling it, you no longer escape the italics so the backslash is visible, but the arms and face end up looking like this: ¯\(ツ)/¯.