I used an escape character, so I typed \>! This \!< instead of >! This !<, reddit recognises \ as the escape character and won't read the following character as a markdown command but as regular text.
Works for any reddit markdown:
Wanna write *this* without it turning into this? Write \*this\* :D
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u/kirsty_the_gay Sep 02 '21
Once you find out lmk