Here’s how to unlock the hidden Easter eggs in Android Messages

Earlier this month Google launched desktop browser support for Android Messages, letting you text friends from your PC (if you’ve got an Android device to set things up). Well, it wouldn’t be a proper Google app without a few hidden Easter eggs, and users have been busy digging up words and phrases that act as shortcuts to kaomoji — those Japanese emoticons that look a little like this: ٩(ఠ益ఠ)۶.

Most of these seem to have been carried over from Hangouts, as spotted by this post on Reddit. We’ve assembled a partial list of the ones we’ve tested below, but it seems the more elaborate tricks from Hangouts don’t work. These include things like /ponystream (which produced a herd of galloping My Little Ponies) and /shydino (which sent a tiny dinosaur running to find cover).

To execute these commands on Android Messages, just type a forward slash and then the word you want. They only work at the beginning of messages though.

• /shrug or /shruggie — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• /sunglasses or /dealwithit — ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■)
• /tableflip — (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
• /tableback — ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ
• /that — (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
• /this — ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)
• /wizard — (∩ ` -´)⊃━━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ
• /yuno — ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
• /success — (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑
• /happy — ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
• /facepalm— (－‸ლ)
• /disapprove — ಠ_ಠ
• /algebraic — | ( •◡•)| (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)
• /praisethesun — \`[-|-]/

Found any others? Let us know in the comments below.

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