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Another instance can be found in a NarutoFan forum thread dated March 24th, 2007. ScoreHero forum's administrator JCirri decided to replace everyone's avatar pictures with the ‘i dunno lol (¯\(°_o)/¯’) icon for April Fool’s Day in 2008. The emoticon was also posted onto ScoreHero forum's IRC channel by user Zeitgeist on July 14th, 2007:Įch Sayz: (7/14/07) i dunno lol ¯\(°_o)/¯ ¯\(°_o)/¯ is a smiley that means "i dunno lol" The search box works great too The 10 Most recently updated files: (The rest can be found here.) 09:05:56 cartoons/warner bros 09:00:52 people/body parts/hand gestures 09:00:51 television/the office. The first Urban Dictionary definition for the phrase "I dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯" was created on March 25th, 2007: To explore and enjoy the many ASCII art pictures on this site, just pick an Art Category from the menu on the left. This definition did not contain the phrase "I dunno LOL": The first Urban Dictionary definition entry for "¯\(°_o)/¯" was created by user spacepuree on November 9th, 2006. Before the emoticon came into usage, the text-based cue shrug signified a similar sense of non-involvement or non-awareness.Ī photograph of a Barbie doll with arms raised in the air titled "I Dunno LOL" was submitted by DeviantArt user Koriganu on September 20th, 2006. The emoticon, which resembles the nonverbal gesture of a shrug, could have been inspired by an exploitable image of Spiderman that spawned the catchphrase "How Do I Shot Web?" as early as 2003. Several other notable instance can be found in a forum thread about drinking chants, posted on September 12th, 2004, and another thread about tanning outside, posted on December 13th, 2004. Created using the Japanese katakana (tsu) to represent a pair of eyes and smirking mouth, and various other Unicode characters to represent shrugging.

However, the earliest known pairing of the two as "I dunno LOL" appeared in a Q&A interview article published by London ShootFighters on February 8th, 2001.

This can be simple art like '<3' (it looks almost like a heart if you turn your head sideways), or it can be more complex, with characters carefully placed out, containing many lines of characters. The expression "I dunno" has been recognized as a common variation of "I don't know" for decades and the slang acronym "LOL" also has a long history of usage. ASCII art is art made out of ASCII characters. The online history of the term "¯\(°_o)/¯" remains sparsely documented due to the fact that most search engine omit certain characters like slashes and dashes for more accurate search results.