All you have to do is copy shruggie from Copyshrug, then do this: Go to “Settings,” then “General,” then “Keyboard,” then “Shortcut.” From there, you can add a new shortcut (tap “+” in the upper right hand corner): Type the word you want your phone to autocorrect in the “phrase” field, and then paste shrugging into the “shortcut” field. My phone, by the way, still does this, because I have hitherto been far too lazy to change it back.Īnyway, my point is this: You can set your phone to autocorrect the word “shrug” (or “&shrug,” or whatever other character combination you want to use) to shruggie. I feel like I should have figured this one out without help my boyfriend set my phone to autocorrect his name to "His Grace" when I wasn't looking a few years ago, which is pretty much the same thing.
Hat tip to Bustle's own Jessica Blankenship for alerting me to the fact that this ingenious little trick is possible: You can set your phone to autocorrect a certain word into shruggie. Here are five different ways you can get a little more shruggie in your life, because, well… So here - I've done my best to take the mystery out of it. Travis Porter tweeted out shruggie along with the phrase “Kanye shrug” (now, of course, a meme in and of itself as well), which seems to have spurred its adoption across every form of electronic communication imaginable.īut accessing shruggie, a “kaomoji” that relies on characters only available on Japanese keyboards to create, continues to be problematic for those of us in the Western world. According to Kyle Chayka's incredibly detailed chronicle of “The Life and Times of ¯\_( ツ )_/¯” over at The Awl, the little ASCII fellow has been around for quite a while however, it was only after Kanye West's now-infamous interruption of Taylor Swift during the 2009 MTV VMAs that it gained widespread usage.
Shruggie, it turns out, actually has quite an impressively rich history. But each and every time he makes an appearance, the same question always emerges: How do you type the shrug emoticon? Many of those characters don't exist on Western keyboards, so… how on earth are we supposed to do it? And moreover, how do we keep doing it anyway despite the challenge? Why does shruggie mean so dang much to us? The shrug emoticon, affectionately known as “shruggie” and occasionally “smugshrug,” is a well-loved piece of ASCII art meaning everything from “I don't know” to a happy-go-lucky “Whatever!”, shruggie has become a frequent fixture of text-based communication in the digital age.
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