Donger Faces to Copy and Paste

Dongers — Raise Your Dongers ヽ(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ﾉ

A donger is a text face with both arms thrown in the air. ヽ(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ﾉ is the canonical one. The defining feature is the raised arms — ヽ and ﾉ, or ( and ) — which turn any face into a celebration.

Raise your dongers

The phrase comes from Twitch chat, where “RAISE YOUR DONGERS” became the standard way to hype a moment in a stream. Chat would fill with rows of ヽ(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ﾉ the instant something good happened, and the ritual spread from there to Discord and YouTube live chat. Copy a row of them from this page and paste repeatedly — that is genuinely how they are used.

Where dongers came from

They are a branch of Japanese kaomoji. The arms-up posture existed for decades in Japanese emoticon culture as a simple expression of joy; Western streaming chat picked it up, gave it a silly name, and pushed the character selection into stranger territory — Tibetan, Thai and Lao characters that happen to look like eyes and mouths. That is why so many dongers use scripts unrelated to any of the languages involved.

Donger, kaomoji, or Lenny face?

All three overlap and the boundaries are informal. A kaomoji is any Japanese-style upright text face. A Lenny face is specifically ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and its relatives. A donger is any face with both arms raised — so ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ﾉ is simultaneously a Lenny face and a donger, which is exactly the sort of thing that starts arguments in chat.

Copy and paste tips

Dongers are wide, so they work best in chat apps rather than narrow comment columns. In streaming chat, repetition is the point — send the same donger several times rather than varying it. For usernames, use one of the shorter variations near the top of the page, since most name fields will truncate a full donger.

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