Issue with the handling of underscore characters in URL querystrings

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The system appears to be trying to italicise the middle of the URL query string?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ps_-I1jgYU

https://youtu.be/_ps_-I1jgYU

YouTubeps-I1jgYU

https://youtu.be/ps-I1jgYU

This is an apparently legal URL to YouTube, but Discourse doesn’t like it much, making it impossible to share any links with two separated underscores in the query string?

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Reading this topic Links broken with (at least) two underscores in URL
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ps_-I1jgYU> is a workaround
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ps_-I1jgYU

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There was a similar issue in this topic too Links with multiple dots aren’t linking right

The other workaround in the topic @Moin linked should let the link onebox:

https://youtu.be/%5Fps_-I1jgYU

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Gah sorry for not using search on this occasion. Feel free to merge with prior reports or delete this Topic.

Appreciate the quick workaround!

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