For people who post
Type emojis and kaomoji on Reddit
Reddit never gave its editor an emoji picker, which suits the culture fine right up until you want a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and end up searching "shrug emoji copy paste" for the hundredth time.
What that costs you today
No emoji button anywhere in the editor
Kaomoji live on copy-paste sites full of ads
The markdown and rich-text editors behave differently
A table flip pasted wrong loses its arms
The same thirty seconds, twice
The thread is wrong on the internet, and the reply calls for a table flip.
The copy-paste-site detour
- 01 Search "table flip copy paste" in another tab
- 02 Find a site, dodge the ads, copy the kaomoji
- 03 Paste it into Reddit and notice an arm did not survive
The escape sequence ate the shrug’s arm again.
With Emoji Anywhere
- 01 Type :tableflip in the reply
- 02 Press Enter. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ arrives whole
No other tab, no ads, no missing limbs.
What you would type instead
:shrug → ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the Reddit classic, arms intact
:tableflip → (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ for when the thread deserves it
:lenny → ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) you know what this is for
:eyes → 👀 for the threads you are just watching
Try it here first. No install needed.
Where it works on Reddit
- ✓ Posts. The rich-text editor, built on Lexical and driven through its own events.
- ✓ Comments. Replies keep up with fast threads.
- ✓ Markdown mode. A plain textarea; mind the backslash rule below.
Make it yours
:remind → RemindMe! 2 days Custom shortcodes type anything, including bot commands. :remind can be your RemindMe line, :src your source request, :edit your standard edit note.
Reddit's rich-text editor is built on Lexical, the same engine as Facebook's, and it fights outside edits the same way. The extension drives it through its own events, so the kaomoji arrive with all their limbs.
Questions
Does the shrug keep its arms?
In the rich-text editor, yes: the characters land exactly as typed, backslash and all. Markdown mode treats a lone backslash as an escape, the same trap that eats pasted shrugs, so use the rich editor there or double the backslash.
Is this not a bit un-Reddit?
The kaomoji are as Reddit as it gets; they predate emoji on the site by a decade. The same shortcodes type both, so :shrug and :eyes cover whichever register the subreddit runs on.
Is my typing sent anywhere?
No. Matching happens on your device, the extension makes no network requests, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Keep reading
Your keyboard already knows what you mean
Free, 280 KB, no account. Two letters from now you will never open an emoji panel again.