Why do emotes behave weird when the first character is punctuation?
They don’t behave weird, they behave intelligently. Mostly. There’s a list of punctuation characters (‘, :, etc) which are normally printed with no space before them when emoting, so that you can do :’s feet are webbed and have it look correct. If you don’t want this behavior, put a backslash before the punctuation — :\’s feet are webbed will be displayed as “inky ‘s feet are webbed” with the extra space. As a bonus answer, the way to do a smiley on-channel is therefore :\:).
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