As you might be aware, Discord famously uses *asterixis* and **double asterixis** to communicate italic and bold respectively. Most only know these and think that it was an idea first introduced on Discord.
But Discord was made by
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s. Those people were already familiar with a classic style to make text pop out more and convey e m o t i o n. Since Discord's recent popularity,Markdown
has become knowntoby tons more people than ever! (except not really)
However most only know the a few rules as shown above, you might not even know how I did that strikethrough or
underlineright there, or how my whole text thus far has given this left padding.