This image has been circulating around the internet at least since 2012, so sadly I couldn't find the original source.
You have to "escape" the first ^ with \ otherwise it thinks you want to make the next character superscript: ^w^
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What is it supposed to be?
Fox face.
Which, for clarity, is
^w^
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