Within days of its debut, the emoticon had been named the Lenny Face and Le Face Face.Īlthough some thought the Lenny Face would disappear shortly, it proved to be long lived. These events may have been the reason r/israel was targeted. The weekend of November 17 and 18 had seen Israel launch airstrikes against Gaza and Hamas fire rockets towards Tel Aviv. Later that day, the r/israel subreddit was spammed with numerous copies of the face and variations on it. The video is simply a slow zoom into the emoticon with a soundtrack of incoherent screaming. Also on that day, a video was posted to YouTube with the title ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). On 4chan, it was posted so many times that some users were temporarily banned for posting it too much. In the course of that same day, the emoticon was posted to the US-based imageboard 4chan and then on Reddit to the subreddit r/4chan.
The anonymous comment, posted on November 18, 2012, read “ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) this thread is leaking from the heavens.” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) may have first appeared on the Finnish image-based message board Ylilauta in a thread about spam filter settings.
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