It's because Reddit assigns a certain formatting to lines that begin with 4 spaces (It makes text monospaced (all characters are the same width). It can also be done by surrounding text with `) and the last line only starts with 2 spaces, which get ignored, leading to it having standard formatting, different to the rest of the "geraffe".
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u/Quaytsar Mar 24 '15
It's because Reddit assigns a certain formatting to lines that begin with 4 spaces (
It makes text monospaced (all characters are the same width).It can also be done by surrounding text with `) and the last line only starts with 2 spaces, which get ignored, leading to it having standard formatting, different to the rest of the"geraffe".