( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Etymology
First attested in an anonymous comment on 18 November 2012 in a thread about spam filter settings on the Finnish imageboard : "( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 'this thread is leaking from the heavens'". On the same day, the emoticon was posted on several social media websites including, and.