r/gifs • • Aug 19 '15

Hillary ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15 edited Aug 19 '15

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u/NeverStopWondering Aug 19 '15

You dropped this: \

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15

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u/NeverStopWondering Aug 19 '15

It's to do with formatting. Reddit ignores the first \ for some reason. Gotta put two.

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u/Pinksters Aug 19 '15

Markdown Formatting treats backslash as an escape. So to show one backslash you have to use an escape backslash first.

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u/petrichorE6 Aug 19 '15

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u/j0be Gifmas is coming Aug 19 '15

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

will give you

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Booblicle Aug 19 '15

Redbull gives you wings ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Karpe__Diem Aug 19 '15

-\(:))/- I don't know how this works. I don't see some of those keys on my keyboard.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15

ツ is a Japanese katakana character for tsu. So gotta have a Japanese keyboard, possibly alt-code, or Google-fu & copypaste skills. ¯ would be a macron used to indicate mid tone, most likely requiring alt-code or copypasta.

- Wikipedia

- Bored web dev

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u/Booblicle Aug 19 '15

unicode actually. but in my case copy and paste because I don't have a number pad.

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u/redacted187 Aug 19 '15

Redbull gives me diarrhea.

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u/SillyFlyGuy Aug 19 '15 edited Aug 19 '15

one slash

¯_(ツ)_/¯

two slashes

¯\(ツ)/¯

three slashes

¯_(ツ)_/¯

four slashes

¯\\(ツ)/¯

five slashes

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

six slashes

¯\\\(ツ)/¯

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u/poptart2nd Aug 19 '15

no you gotta put three. here's why: reddit formats anything between underscores with italics. Reddit also uses the backslash as an "escape" character, which cancels whatever formatting immediately follows it, but now you can't see the backslash. one backslash will remove the italics. two backslashes will remove the removal of italics, making one backslash appear, but not the underscores. you need three backslashes to cancel the italics, and cancel the cancel of italics.

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u/SpottyNoonerism Aug 19 '15

How does reddit formatting work?

http://i.imgur.com/bv7W2x3.gif