Picking a flip
- The original:
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻has wide eyes (°, the degree sign) and a shouting mouth (□, WHITE SQUARE). The arms are ╯, a box-drawing corner that curves up. - Angrier:
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻uses ಠ, a letter of the Kannada script, for glaring eyes and 益 for gritted teeth. - Both hands:
┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻throws two tables at once. - Cheerful:
(ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ ﾐ ┸━┸flips with a grin, for mock frustration. - A bear:
ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻, the ʕ ʔ ears and ᴥ snout of the bear faces, mid-flip. - Putting it back:
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)sets the table down, upright.
When people use it
A table flip is exaggerated anger about something small: a game you lost on the last move, code that won’t compile, a group chat that changed the plan again. It reads as a joke rather than a real outburst, which is why it is safe to send. The put-it-back face is its answer, and some people send both in a row.
Getting it to paste cleanly
Chat apps that format messages with Markdown read a backtick as the start of code formatting, so the mouth of (`Д´) can vanish and the rest turn into a code box. If a face loses a piece in your app, pick one without a backtick, like the original flip. The table itself is plain Unicode and needs no escaping.