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Side eye copy & paste

(¬_¬) is side eye, a plain-text Unicode symbol built from several characters from the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement blocks. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the kaomoji & emoticons collection. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.

Unicode
U+0028 U+00AC U+005F U+00AC U+0029
HTML entity
(¬_¬)
CSS content
\28 \AC \5F \AC \29
JavaScript
\u{28}\u{AC}\u{5F}\u{AC}\u{29}
UTF-8 bytes
28 C2 AC 5F C2 AC 29
Made of

U+0028 ( · Basic Latin

U+00AC ¬ · Latin-1 Supplement

U+005F _ · Basic Latin

U+00AC ¬ · Latin-1 Supplement

U+0029 ) · Basic Latin

Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols

Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.

Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.