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The “I dunno LOL” textual emoticon ( ¯\(°_o)/¯ ) portrays a character shrugging, raising their arms in confusion. It is a often used as a response to “How do I shot web?” or any other question, really. This is used to indicate greater confusion than the standard O_o emoticon.

Uncertain Origin

Searches for “¯\(°_o)/¯” can be problematic because of how certain characters are omitted by many search engines, even when placed in quotes. The emoticon appears in many forum signatures which often results in false positives for 2002, shortly after vBulletin and other PHP forums first appeared.

The phrase “I dunno” has been a common English-language slang for “I don’t know” for decades and LOL has a long history as well. But the exact pairing of the two as “I dunno LOL” seems to first appear in 2006, as is evident from both a Google Date Range search, and from Google Insights (seen below).

Google Insights

Dramatica bears it only the slightest mention.

Urban Dictionary

The first definition of ¯\(°_o)/¯ on Urbandictionary was created by spacepuree on November 9th, 2006. Surprisingly, the definition does not contain the phrase “I dunno LOL.”

Excerpt:

The shrug face.
It’s not a zombie.
aznhottie15666 signed on at 12:00:00 AM.

aznhottie15666: wut r u doin?
moarbbqsauce: ¯\(°_o)/¯

aznhottie15666 signed off at 12:01:00 AM.

The first Urbandictionary definition to contain both and the phrase “I dunno LOL” was created by Link332 in 2007.

¯\(°_o)/¯ is a smiley that means “i dunno lol”

…¯\(°_o)/¯
¯\(°_o)/¯, i dunno lol

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14 Comments

Richie McNuggets
Jun 11, 2009 at 06:01AM UTC , Richie McNuggets wrote:

yes. meme. good. yay.

Chris Menning
Jun 14, 2009 at 11:00PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

More please.

Tylord14
Jun 17, 2009 at 09:04PM UTC , Tylord14 wrote:

maybe you should tell how to get the weird eye and stuffs

Deus
Jul 18, 2009 at 04:46PM UTC , Deus wrote:

Yes,tell us how to make this: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Chris Menning
Aug 08, 2009 at 09:01PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

By more, I mean, where did this first appear, on what forum, was there ever any significant peak in activity around this?

cybergon
Aug 15, 2009 at 12:58AM UTC , cybergon wrote:

alt+0175
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¯\(º_o)/¯ i dunno lol

cybergon
Aug 15, 2009 at 01:01AM UTC , cybergon wrote:

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results in ° the smaller eye.

cybergon
Aug 15, 2009 at 01:01AM UTC , cybergon wrote:

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¯\(°_o)/¯ i dunno lol

Steven R.
Aug 29, 2009 at 09:05PM UTC , Steven R. wrote:

It’s a catchphrase, not a meme.

Griff   McConal
Sep 13, 2009 at 11:54PM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

macrochan HERE

Just Use Your Imagination!
Dec 07, 2009 at 05:11AM UTC , Just Use Your Imagination! wrote:

¯\(º_o)/¯

This emoticon should be under emoticon

Logan Zezima
Jan 19, 2010 at 08:35PM UTC , Logan Zezima wrote:

Take the ¯\(º_o)/¯ out.

carolina_wa
Feb 03, 2010 at 04:22AM UTC , carolina_wa wrote:

hello, who is the one i’ve talked in omegle? he said he is the owner of this dog. its me, the girl of omegle. the girl who sad “ask me something, i’ll answer honestly”

Shii
Feb 27, 2010 at 08:03PM UTC , Shii wrote:

the dog is a shiba inu, which means it’s japanese, which means its owner was not on omegle

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