I see people posting this all the time: raw: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ result: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Where is his arm? It doesn’t appear, because the backslash isn’t formatted correctly. In discourse the underscore is markup, so you have to escape it in order to make it appear correctly. That’s what it thinks the backslash is doing, so it doesn’t appear. You have to add a second backslash to make the first backslash appear. raw: ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ result: ¯\(ツ)/¯
Now his biceps are gone. Since you escaped the backslash, discourse interpreted the underscores as formatting to make the face italic. You have to escape the underscores as well. raw: ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ result: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So let’s see, a backslash, and another one, and an extra on on the other side, and ¯ͪ͑̆̆͒̒͂҉̣̭̬̪̜̣̞͉̞̩̞͈̘̘̯̩̰͠ͅ\̶̵̡̲̩̝̖̣͖̟͕̖̩̘̱̺̹̳̟͌ͥ̋̉͛̈́ͮ̔ͩ̒̆͒͌̅͂ͧ̽͊͂͢ͅ\̧̧̙̘̤͔̹̪̭̙̞̫̝̗̱̼͓̂̋̾͊͛̔ͩ͌̎ͭ̐ͨͪ̍́̚̚͘͡\̸̼͕̥̞̤̩̯̘̫̻͕̱̘̳̗̾ͦͧ̃̊̏ͤ̈͒ͥͫͅ_̶̸͙̤͔̲̬͎̭̍̃ͤͪ͗ͥ̈̅̊ͬͪ̇̈͆̚͜͟(̶̹͈̺͓̖͇̣͊̌́ͫ̔ͪ̉͐̿̊̀͗͜͢ツ̡̥̼͈͚̗̪͔̯̦̝̫̱̣̮̂ͯ̆̉̽̀̓ͫ͜)̡͔͉̩̥͈ͫ̂̋̿͑̄̂̊ͥͩͨ̏͑̑ͭ͑ͬ̍̀̚\̵̷̮͖̟̰͕̙̮̲̼̖̪͖̪̣̥͔̜ͤͧ̅ͮ͡͡_̶͔̪̙̱̞͔͖̩̣͙͐͑̾͐̃̔͌̋̌̏ͨͦͨ͆ͦͫ͜/̸̝̯͍̙̣̪͙̗̠͙͇̮̠̥̪͇̑ͭ͗ͪ̊̒̀͠¯̷̴̡͔̪̰̥̹͇͕̫̝̩̖͓̠̜̍͒̿ͤ̇̌̾̏̐̏̀ͨ̂͐̇͢
I like my emoji better!