Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You want a double-backslash in Markdown.
yields
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Whereas:
yields
¯\(ツ)/¯
You need to add backslashes to your underscores since Markdown is turning them into italics.
yields
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks!
Indeed, I really should have caught that.