
"To offend the French, fondle a slice of cheese". "Long before the toast craze in the U.S., the French were making tartines". Retrieved 22 December 2022 – via Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet (DiVA). Culture and Computing, Lecturer Notes in Computer Science.

"Hesitation in intercultural communication: Some observations on interpreting shoulder shrugging" (PDF).


"The shrug: Forms and meanings of a compound enactment". The shrug emoticon, made from Unicode characters, is also typed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, where "ツ" is the character tsu from Japanese katakana. The shrug gesture is a Unicode emoji included as U+1F937 🤷 SHRUG. The Gallic shrug, "generally a nuanced gesture with myriad meanings", performed by sticking out your lower lip, raising your eyebrows and shoulders simultaneously, and voicing a nonchalant Bof. People from the Philippines, Iran and Iraq may interpret a shrug as a somewhat impolite sign of confidence. In many countries, such as the United States, Sweden and Morocco, a shrug represents hesitation or lack of knowledge however, in other countries, such as Japan and China, shrugging is uncommon and is not used to show hesitation. A shrug is an emblem, meaning that it integrates the vocabulary of only certain cultures and may be used in place of words. The shoulder-raising action may be accompanied by rotating the palms upwards, pulling closed lips downwards, raising the eyebrows or tilting the head to one side. Today, there are countless variations of the "How do I shot web?" phrase, using a past tense verb + noun combination in replacement of "shot web?" In addition, one may respond to any of these "How Do I" queries with an ASCII-based catchphrase, I Dunno LOL ¯\(°_o)/¯.A shrug is a gesture performed by raising both shoulders, and is a representation of an individual either being indifferent about something or not knowing an answer to a question.
#I dunno ascii how to
The phrase has been also altered to reference other memes, such as "how do i shoop da woop" and "bitches don't know how to shot web". This grammatically strange phrase initially spread as an in-joke among SomethingAwful users who frequented the FYAD ("Fuck You and Die") section, but reached across the boards on Something Awful, eventually reaching 4chan's /b/ (random) board, where an image macro of Spider-Man saying the phrase spawned hundreds of other pictures containing the phrase. The earliest Google sighting of the phrase was reported as early as in February 2003. Out of sheer frustration, a newbie player repeatedly asked "how do i shot web?" in imperfect English, which presumably meant "How Do I Shoot Web." According to firsthand accounts, it was originally quoted during a round of Natural Selection (2002), wherein the alien enemies' primary choice of weapon was shooting spider webs. There are conflicting reports regarding the birth of "how do I shot web?", but numerous reference materials point to Something Awful (SA) forums's "goons-only" gaming server as the earliest known site of origin.

The original comic pane was first published in a 1984 issue of The Amazing Spider-man, appearing in a promotional page asking for the readers' feedback on advertisements:
