User blog:Edwin Shade/A Glitch That I Found

In experimenting in my sandbox I came across the following glitch, which whether or not you were aware of it, is an interesting result. In order to carry this out you must follow this steps in exactly this order, otherwise there is little to no guarantee it will work. When I first discovered this a few minutes ago I was surprised, but then saw how

First, copy and paste the following MathJax command into a page of your choice, making sure you are in normal edit mode, and not in source-code-mode. I have put the string of symbols in a gray box so that this blog post won't be affected by the glitch, but when carrying this out you will not put the string in a gray box, but paste it normally, like these words are.

\(\color{#FF0000}{😀}\)

Next, refresh the page and wait until all that is left is the smiley, at this point, you should see this:

😀

You will now want to hit the "edit" button once more, and moving your cursor to the right of the emoji, such that there is no space between your typing cursor and the emoji, you will hit backspace once. It is very important you do not do this twice, otherwise you will delete the symbol that appears after hitting backspace once, which is essential to the glitch. This symbol takes the form of a diamond with a question mark in it.

Lastly, publish your edit and the entire page should now be deleted, with just the word "null" in the place of where everything once was.

I do not know why this glitch works the way it does, but I do believe that someone on this site probably has an answer for me. If you do, or would like to give feedback on this, then leave a comment below.