/^I've seen a little bit of confusion about my pronouns, so I figure I should clarify while also turning it into a teaching moment about regex! My bio says my pronouns are "The[ym]" which is a fancy regex way of saying they/them pronouns! Square brackets indicate to regex that any one of the characters within the brackets is fine, so if we take the regex /the[ym]/ that means the word "they" would match to this regex *and* the word "them" would match to this regex! (In an autoquirking context, that means both words would be replaced by whatever is in the "replace" box) Technically with the exact way it's written in my bio, only "They" and "Them" would match, but not "they" and "them". To fix that, I could write the regex as /[Tt]he[ym]/ but it's probably already confusing enough to those who aren't super into regex, so I've chosen to leave it mildly inaccurate for clarity.$/
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