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Background Pony #23F0
@Background Pony #0345  
Must be font-specific. I disabled all anti-aliasing and deleted Segoe UI font (it’s always anti-aliased regardless of settings), so it’s either Tahoma or MS Sans Serif.
Background Pony #5FCF
@Background Pony #972A  
Can’t believe I forgot about characters that are visually indistinguishable from the Latin charset. You replaced the “P” on three of them, and the “e” and “o” on two of those, right? It would explain the sorting. Did you actually use a fullwidth question mark though? There’s no excess space between the “m” and the question mark that would indicate that you did.
Background Pony #23F0
It’s possible that it’s the same guy with newer drives.
Nope, I have only 2.5 TB real drive space.  
That said, I think it’s a safe bet that the image is shopped as doing it “legit” takes more effort than MS Paint.
Nope, not shopped.  
but there are ways around that by using private characters
It’s not PUA, it’s ‘?’: fullwidth question mark. And all files have different names: some latin characters are substituted by cyrillic characters. Theoretically, one can edit file name manually to contain real question mark and duplicate names, but it’s it glitchy and not worth it.  
sparse files consisting largely (or entirely) of zeros
file hardlinked multiple times
Yea, that’s how it’s done.  
It may still require 15 TB of free space to create the file initially
Yes, it will. I do not recommend any user to create 15 TB file, it would just error out.
 
Actually, I created much smaller sparse file, and then manually edited sparse file bytes that contain info on it’s size. It’s not perfect, though, 15TB is the max size I could create through editing it, any more and it’s just don’t work.
Background Pony #5FCF
@WinterCutieMark  
70 TB home computer, circa 2010. It’s possible that it’s the same guy with newer drives. That said, I think it’s a safe bet that the image is shopped as doing it “legit” takes more effort than MS Paint.
 
Don’t believe me? Sure, 75 TB is huge and yeah, question marks cannot be a part of filenames… but there are ways around that by using private characters and either sparse files consisting largely (or entirely) of zeros or one 15 TB file hardlinked multiple times. (It may still require 15 TB of free space to create the file initially, even if that space is immediately freed up by flagging it as a sparse file; I’ve never created one anywhere near large enough to verify if the files that fsutil file createnew makes are flagged as sparse files by default if they would otherwise exceed the free space on that drive.)
 
 
How to do it on your own system:  
In a command prompt with administrator privileges type the following commands as they appear below. (Do not copy ’n’ paste as I used zero‐width spaces to aid in visually formatting it all.)
 
fsutil file createnew "U mad​X" 16492674416640  
fsutil sparse setflag "U madX"  
fsutil sparse setzerodata "U madX" 0 16492674416640  
fsutil hardlink create ProblemW "U madX"  
fsutil hardlink create ProblemX "U madX"  
fsutil hardlink create ProblemY "U madX"  
fsutil hardlink create ProblemZ "U madX"
 
Notes:
 
[1] 16,492,674,416,640 is the number of bytes in 15 TB.  
[2] W, X, Y, and Z are stand‐ins for private characters that look identical to a question mark.