Meaning of shruggie | Babel Free

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A kaomoji denoting a shrug; particularly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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“As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode. […] The shruggie will seamlessly sync and you shan’t need to stress.”

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