Shrugging on Slack

How you can go about adding a shrug to a message in Slack

Ever wanted to convey “I dunno lol” in a Slack message? You can by simply appending a shrug (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) onto the end of your message!

Screenshot of a Slack message with a shrug emoji appended to the end

To do this type /shrug at the beginning of a message and it will append the emoji to the end.

It won’t work if you type /shrug anywhere but the start of the message.

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