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What is the table made of?
The table is built from box drawing characters, the pieces old computers used to draw frames and menus on a text screen. You can see the whole set on Wikipedia. An upright table and a flipped one use different pieces.
The table standing on its legs is ┬─┬. It uses ┬ U+252C, a piece with its leg pointing down, and the thin line ─ U+2500.
︵ comes from a set of brackets made for Chinese and Japanese text written from top to bottom. Turned on its side, a round bracket becomes the arc the table flies along.
Where does table flipping come from?
In Japan, flipping the low dining table in anger has a name: chabudai gaeshi. It was a stock scene for angry fathers in manga and TV, like in the 1968 anime "Star of the Giants". Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is known for "upending the tea table" when a game in the works is not good enough, as the Wikipedia article on the chabudai notes.
Nobody knows who typed the first text flip. Know Your Meme thinks it most likely began in the early 1990s with other Japanese text faces. Western gamers picked it up in the 2000s, and it became common in StarCraft II chat after 2010 as a sign that someone was about to rage quit.
Flip your own words
Type anything and it flies off the table upside down. The upside down letters are other Unicode letters that happen to look flipped, like ǝ for e and ɐ for a. Not every letter has a match, so a few stay the same. For longer text, try the reverse text tool.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ʎɐpuoW
More ways to lose it
- Angry facesლಠ益ಠ)ლRage, raised fists and fed up looks.
- Shrugs¯\_(ツ)_/¯For when you have no idea.
- Lenny faces( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)The famous smirk and lots of versions of it.
- Build your own faceヽ(｡◕‿◕｡)ﾉPick the arms, eyes and mouth in the face maker.
- Text backwardstxet sdrawkcabFlip the letters or the words of your text.