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Show HN: One Click Shrug Emoji Copy

47 points by davidjnelson 9y ago

peterkshultz 9y ago
Had I not set up a keyboard shortcut for this a week ago, I would've been using your site at least a dozen times a day. Clean and functional. Well done!
- davidjnelson 9y ago
  Thanks! I got tired of googling it every time, and was annoyed I had to fumble around with manual copy and paste on my iphone.
anigbrowl 9y ago
Look of Disapproval is a Chrome extension (not mine) featuring multiple Unicode reactions, all of them disappointed. ¯\(°_o)/¯
Y_Y 9y ago
That's not an emoji. Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add one but hn does not permit). Would hardly be able to justify the domain registration expense though.
- nothrabannosir 9y ago
  That is absolutely an emoji. The term predates their inclusion in Unicode.
  - anonfunction 9y ago
    I believe these text based characters are called emoticons whereas an emoji is an image.
    - nothrabannosir 9y ago
      Well, then I was absolutely wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      - dilap 9y ago
        I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.
      - hinkley 9y ago
        I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.
    - bitexploder 9y ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      - ozzmotik 9y ago
        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - madeofpalk 9y ago
    It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon. > Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan. > For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
  - guessmyname 9y ago
    Emoji — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
    - madeofpalk 9y ago
      > Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
- deleted 9y ago
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- kazinator 9y ago
  Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)"). These related words also exist: スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think) エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon) フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").
valbaca 9y ago
FYI: The Google keyboard for iOS automatically suggests this emoticon when you type "Shrug" (sans quotes obvs)
arthurcolle 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- AstroJetson 9y ago
  I really miss my APL terminal....¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zatkin 9y ago
I hate to break it to you, but this has already been done, and more extensively too: https://textfac.es https://textfac.es
- davidjnelson 9y ago
  That's a cool site. I find it a bit busy browsing it on my iphone though.
- keerthiko 9y ago
  I don't understand why neither site uses accessible text for the emoticon. I think they're text but sealed by css/html from text highlighting for the "copy to clipboard" action. What if I only want part of the emoticon? What if I want to find the one I want (in textfac.es) by using my browser find?
- airstrike 9y ago
  ◔̯◔
- eat_veggies 9y ago
  I find http://dongerlist.com/ http://dongerlist.com/ a much better resource
  - earenndil 9y ago
    I honestly thinks that the CIA's own list (https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html) is the best one.
keerthiko 9y ago
I keep this and ascii nyan-cat at the bottom of my todo.txt file that's always open as the first tab in a sublime window, so I get it by cmd+tab cmd+1 cmd+f '\_'cmd+left shift+cmd+right cmd+c Which seems like a lot of keypresses, but being entirely keyboard and mostly cmd, it's surprisingly muscle-memory friendly.
lanius 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ brings back memories of SeleCT and Starcraft 2's early days. sup son?
tek-cyb-org 9y ago
-\_(">)_/- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ad_bait 9y ago
Wow, cool advertisements. I’m glad they made an impression on me.
- taneq 9y ago
  What advertisements? I don't see any. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
kazinator 9y ago
Slight variation: we can sub "shi" for "tsu" for a different look. Also, hiragana "ji", preceded by an extra dakuten mark: Original: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ s/ツ/シ/:　¯\_(シ)_/¯ s/ツ/゛じ/: ¯\_(゛じ)_/¯
nickbarnwell 9y ago
For the Alfred users out there, this [1] workflow gives you this and a handful of other kaomoji with a single chord [1]: https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows
motyar 9y ago
Check your twitter share link, Its not including the site url.
- davidjnelson 9y ago
  oh snap, thanks for the heads up.
- davidjnelson 9y ago
  Huh, seems fine. I get: Copy the Shrug Emoji ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ https://copyshrugemoji.com/ https://copyshrugemoji.com/ Then I tweet it to twitter and can click through fine. What OS/browser are you on?
iambateman 9y ago
On both Mac and iPhone I’ve set &shrug to convert to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I use it all the time.
- thesmok 9y ago
  I'm using word "dunno" for that.
darepublic 9y ago
Does one thing and does it well
- davidjnelson 9y ago
  Thanks, glad you like it!
LennyCrop 9y ago
Cool idea! I'm not sure I could use it. The paranoid part of me will always imagine it copying 'rm -rf /' and me accidentally pasting that into a terminal one day
- matte_black 9y ago
  Don’t a lot of systems have built in protection against that now so that a user is forced to confirm?
deleted 9y ago
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guiscreenshots 9y ago
It's official: HN has become completely reduced to reddit
- matte_black 9y ago
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bwb 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
bluetidepro 9y ago
I did this years ago with http://shrugdude.com/ http://shrugdude.com/ and look ma, no ads.
- chillidoor 9y ago
  I didn't even realise there were ads on it. uBlock for the win!
- sprobertson 9y ago
  http://shrug.es/ http://shrug.es/ : look ma, no unnecessary styling ;)
deleted 9y ago
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kennydude 9y ago
https://textfac.es https://textfac.es is my favourite version of this
nukeop 9y ago
Do you really need so many calls to external domains, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, just to let me copy a couple of characters? This looks like it was built and posted here just to cheaply harvest a couple of ad impressions.

47 points by davidjnelson 9y ago

Had I not set up a keyboard shortcut for this a week ago, I would've been using your site at least a dozen times a day. Clean and functional. Well done!

davidjnelson 9y ago
Thanks! I got tired of googling it every time, and was annoyed I had to fumble around with manual copy and paste on my iphone.

anigbrowl 9y ago

Look of Disapproval is a Chrome extension (not mine) featuring multiple Unicode reactions, all of them disappointed. ¯\(°_o)/¯

Y_Y 9y ago

That's not an emoji. Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add one but hn does not permit). Would hardly be able to justify the domain registration expense though.

nothrabannosir 9y ago
That is absolutely an emoji. The term predates their inclusion in Unicode.
- anonfunction 9y ago
  I believe these text based characters are called emoticons whereas an emoji is an image.
  - nothrabannosir 9y ago
    Well, then I was absolutely wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - dilap 9y ago
      I've noticed more an more people using emojis to encompass the little text drawings, so I think we're actually in the middle of shifting usage.
    - hinkley 9y ago
      I believe you did that on purpose, good sir, so you had an excuse to shrug.
  - bitexploder 9y ago
    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - ozzmotik 9y ago
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon. > Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan. > For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS. As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
- guessmyname 9y ago
  Emoji — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
  - madeofpalk 9y ago
    > Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left. Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
kazinator 9y ago
Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)"). These related words also exist: スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think) エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon) フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").

valbaca 9y ago

FYI: The Google keyboard for iOS automatically suggests this emoticon when you type "Shrug" (sans quotes obvs)

arthurcolle 9y ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AstroJetson 9y ago
I really miss my APL terminal....¯\_(ツ)_/¯

zatkin 9y ago

I hate to break it to you, but this has already been done, and more extensively too: https://textfac.es https://textfac.es

davidjnelson 9y ago
That's a cool site. I find it a bit busy browsing it on my iphone though.
keerthiko 9y ago
I don't understand why neither site uses accessible text for the emoticon. I think they're text but sealed by css/html from text highlighting for the "copy to clipboard" action. What if I only want part of the emoticon? What if I want to find the one I want (in textfac.es) by using my browser find?
airstrike 9y ago
◔̯◔
eat_veggies 9y ago
I find http://dongerlist.com/ http://dongerlist.com/ a much better resource
- earenndil 9y ago
  I honestly thinks that the CIA's own list (https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html) is the best one.

keerthiko 9y ago

I keep this and ascii nyan-cat at the bottom of my todo.txt file that's always open as the first tab in a sublime window, so I get it by cmd+tab cmd+1 cmd+f '\_'cmd+left shift+cmd+right cmd+c Which seems like a lot of keypresses, but being entirely keyboard and mostly cmd, it's surprisingly muscle-memory friendly.

lanius 9y ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ brings back memories of SeleCT and Starcraft 2's early days. sup son?

tek-cyb-org 9y ago

-\_(">)_/- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ad_bait 9y ago

Wow, cool advertisements. I’m glad they made an impression on me.

taneq 9y ago
What advertisements? I don't see any. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]

kazinator 9y ago

Slight variation: we can sub "shi" for "tsu" for a different look. Also, hiragana "ji", preceded by an extra dakuten mark: Original: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ s/ツ/シ/:　¯\_(シ)_/¯ s/ツ/゛じ/: ¯\_(゛じ)_/¯

nickbarnwell 9y ago

For the Alfred users out there, this [1] workflow gives you this and a handful of other kaomoji with a single chord [1]: https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows

motyar 9y ago

Check your twitter share link, Its not including the site url.

davidjnelson 9y ago
oh snap, thanks for the heads up.
davidjnelson 9y ago
Huh, seems fine. I get: Copy the Shrug Emoji ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ https://copyshrugemoji.com/ https://copyshrugemoji.com/ Then I tweet it to twitter and can click through fine. What OS/browser are you on?

iambateman 9y ago

On both Mac and iPhone I’ve set &shrug to convert to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I use it all the time.

thesmok 9y ago
I'm using word "dunno" for that.

darepublic 9y ago

Does one thing and does it well

davidjnelson 9y ago
Thanks, glad you like it!

LennyCrop 9y ago

Cool idea! I'm not sure I could use it. The paranoid part of me will always imagine it copying 'rm -rf /' and me accidentally pasting that into a terminal one day

matte_black 9y ago
Don’t a lot of systems have built in protection against that now so that a user is forced to confirm?

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

guiscreenshots 9y ago

It's official: HN has become completely reduced to reddit

matte_black 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bwb 9y ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bluetidepro 9y ago

I did this years ago with http://shrugdude.com/ http://shrugdude.com/ and look ma, no ads.

chillidoor 9y ago
I didn't even realise there were ads on it. uBlock for the win!
sprobertson 9y ago
http://shrug.es/ http://shrug.es/ : look ma, no unnecessary styling ;)

deleted 9y ago

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kennydude 9y ago

https://textfac.es https://textfac.es is my favourite version of this

nukeop 9y ago

Do you really need so many calls to external domains, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, just to let me copy a couple of characters? This looks like it was built and posted here just to cheaply harvest a couple of ad impressions.