Melting face Emoji
Smileys
A yellow face shown in the middle of a downward drip, with eyes and a mouth sliding off its features. The expression remains relatively neutral or slightly strained, capturing the feeling of losing one's cool.
Usage Context
This emoji is the gold standard for describing overwhelming embarrassment, intense heat, or the feeling of slowly crumbling under life's pressures. It is frequently used in ironic situations where you are forced to remain polite while everything is going wrong, similar to the vibe of the 🙃 emoji.
History
Released in 2021 as part of Unicode 14.0, the melting face quickly became a hit on social media platforms. It captured the collective burnout of the internet era, becoming a shorthand for reacting to absurd news or awkward social interactions where words simply fail to convey the frustration.
Details
Glyph
🫠
Unicode
U+1FAE0
Shortcode
:emoji_u1fae0:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Smileys
Subcategory face-smiling
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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