Maybe I'm too old to appreciate the new alphabet fonts some folks are using...greekish/geekisk (srry Pastor Bob!) but I don't know how to use the SC "Search" function for an artist whose name is not in "regular" letters. Should I download a different iKeyboard to find y'all? Or maybe it's a "fly under the radar" thing...which I can respect! Cheers!

Is that what those strange letters were? I also didn't recognize who I should thank, so I tapped on it and sent it directly. I thought it was a glitch.

Not a glitch? Not sure if BP knows how hard it is to deal with! LOL! Again, I'm 50+. LOL!

Lol PharmGirl, I am 38 and didn't know either! thought I was just going crazy

Seems people are using their mac keyboards along with the 'option' key, or 'shifted option' key to get these various characters... Though I guess they could also be using a different language keyboard on their idevices. I'd bet they are unaware of the difficulty to seek them through search methods... I just recently realized there was a search feature in SC, but I've yet to use it. Generally If I'm searching for someone in particular, I'll go through my list of fanned artists... Otherwise, I just catch up on their past stuff when I stumble upon their most recent post.

I asked one of the folks doing it how they were creating the crazy cryptic names... Using regular ipad device but typing their names on Russian keyboard. You can add the Russian keyboard the same way you add emoji.

Thank you Rusty, FrogFire73, Dill and Wendy for helping me to understand!

So I'm not crazy.

Oh, someone told me they used some app for those geeked up letters that make my eyes cross. (grrr! Lol) I think it was called something like Textpic *something*.