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If you open a (small) image file with notepad you will see a lot of gibberish. This is what happens when you try to view a binary (in other words, non-text) file as text.
I think reddit accepts this too to some extent - for example, programming.reddit.com will redirect you to reddit.com/r/programming.
[root@host ~]$ curl -v http://.
* About to connect() to . port 80 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to . (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: .
> Accept: /
>
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:38:54 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Content-Length: 347
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
</p>
<p>Additionally, a 400 Bad Request
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>
* Closing connection 0
That said, I would also wager that the curve can be skewed towards one side or the other depending on the location, timing of your shift, or any other factors.