A videocassette, used for recording and playing back video content. Emoji

Objects

A classic VHS tape featuring a black plastic casing with a visible magnetic tape spool and a white adhesive label. It represents the standard home video format that dominated living rooms for decades.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal nostalgia for 80s and 90s pop culture, home movies, or the process of recording shows off the television. It serves as a sharp contrast to modern streaming services like 🎬 or 📺.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the videocassette represents the physical media era of the late 20th century, before digital storage and cloud-based video hosting became the global standard.

Details

Glyph

📼

Unicode

U+1F4FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory light & video

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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