This is definitely a bug I'm experiencing, and no clue why aside from the crash earlier today having reactivated the bug.
My PS experience is not sending me the visual data for italicized text.
This is what I mean.
As if that isn't a large enough issue, it seems my computer "trying to recover from it" (as it managed to yesterday, hence why the bug was "reactivated" last crash) is giving me a weird result with private messaging.
This is what I mean too.
It's foreign to me how it exists in the first place, but only for myself and not for anyone else.
Some extra notes which may help with identifying the issue:
1) I can highlight the italicized text with my mouse, and though that doesn't give any result if I copy/paste it somewhere it will show the text.
2) If I activate Dark Mode I can see the text just fine- though I'd rather not because it's hard on the eyes for me.
3) It seems to fix itself as the day goes on, but it takes many,
many hours to do so.
4) The weird result is entirely new.
5) My friend, Ionivan, appears to be having issues with italicized text as well, but bolded italics, with random letters not being visible in polls, or so they've told me.
6) It only happens on Google Chrome on this computer for me, but my other browsers are far too slow to tolerate
7) This computer uses Windows Vista, and Chrome is still up-to-date.
I'm not sure if it's hiccups in the code or whatever- I'm not extensively knowledged on the subject- but I know it's improbable to be something on my end.