
EST, 4chan users had raided the /r/Israel subreddit (shown below, left), with some users referring to the emoticon as "le Palestine face."Īlso on November 18th, World of Warcraft Forums member Kuallius submitted a post titled "The Sha of Casuals ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" and YouTuber cubegoat uploaded a video titled "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" (shown below, left). In the post, Redditor 8-bit_d-boy commented that the face resembled the children's television show character Bob the Builder. EST, which included a screenshot of the face being used in a 4chan thread (shown below, right). Redditor Dogcatcher1979 submitted a post titled "So I guess this is a thing now?" to the /r/4chan subreddit at approximately 3 p.m.


A screenshot of these bans was also shared on FunnyJunk, where it earned 3900 points and gained more than 101,000 views. (ET) that same day, the face had been posted to 4chan's /v/ (video games) board, followed by similar posts on /sp/ (sports) and /b/, where numerous users were eventually banned (shown below, right) for spamming the boards with the emoticon. After someone complained about seeing too many posts in stickied threads, an anonymous user used the emoticon and the phrase "this thread is leaking from the heavens." Other users began derailing the thread by posting derivatives of the emoticon with different types of eyes, which continued for three days.īy 11 a.m. Posted on the site's International board, "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)" was used as a comment in a thread about whether or not administrators should change the settings on their spam detector.

One of the earliest appearances of the emoticon was posted to the Finnish image board Ylilauta at 8:45 a.m.
