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Emoji of the week: Business fish sticker

 
Business fish sticker

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If you’re chatting away with friends on Facebook Messenger and you want to say “I don’t know,” you have a few choices on hand. You can go with “idunno,” plain and simple. You can also go with the more visual,  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but eventually the hassle of having to google “shrugging emoji” every time you don’t know something will reduce the emoji’s amusement value to zilch. And then lastly, you have fucking Business Fish, because why not.

Seriously, how do I even begin explaining Business Fish? It’s a pink humanoid fish in a grey business suit; totally weird yet undeniably fashionable. That’s probably why in a sea of cute animal sticker packs, Business Fish is more memorable than the rest. The sticker of him shrugging just screams “I don’t know, what you want from me? I’m a fish in a fucking suit.” Alternatively, it can be interpreted as “I give up.”

That puff of exasperation, droopy eyes, and crinkles of his suit give this fish a touch of frustration that you can’t get portray nearly as effectively or vividly with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.  It’s every permutation of dunno rolled into one fashionable fishy package, and because of that, it’s my go to sticker when I have nothing else to say, other than the letters I D K.

Nathan Fung

Nathan Fung is a sixth-year political science student and The Gateway's news editor for the 2018-19 year. He can usually be found in the Gateway office, turning coffee into copy.

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