Text Alignment Issue

So I've used Excel for years to make charts for games I do with friends, but Saturday night I noticed an issue for the first time that I've never had through the many versions/iterations of excel over the years

When I started out (and essentially teaching myself excel) when I wanted to push a new line of text down a row in the same cell, I just used the space bar until the portion of text I wanted to push down, was pushed down.  The thing is, when I did this, excel didn't consider the spaces as their own characters and would still center both lines of text (top and bottom)

On Saturday night though, for the first time ever, I noticed this happened to one of my sheets (and proceeded to see the same problem not only in all other sheets for that file, but in another file/workbook entirely as well) You can see how the team name is pushed to the left by the spacing, and then the number of votes below it is pushed right, when before both were centered just fine. As stated, before through many years and versions of excel, this method of mine never had issue or created this problem.

Anyone have any idea on why this is happening and also any fix?  The only abnormal thing I can think of was that, that same night I copy-pasted some google doc data into the excel files on a separate sheet that had emojis, but I don't think that would affect other sheets or cause this? 

I know there's a way to just basically force the text onto a new line in the cell without the spacing, but seeing as I've done countless sheets with my lazy-space method for years, I wouldn't have the time or desire to go in and fix all of them.

Additional Info: I use excel on a Mac (but haven't had this issue before on a Windows or Mac) and my current version of Excel is 16.43