Tell me you don't Markdown, without telling me you don't Markdown.

It's a developer thing, using backticks means the enclosed text is emphasised when rendered from Markdown.

Backticks mark fixed width inline code, not emphasis.

I know what they do, it doesn't change the fact that we use them for emphasis.

Chuckled when I saw the reasonable correct informative and perfectly polite answer…is the one in gray. Cheers.

Backticks long predate markdown.

How dare someone not be a developer!