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

&#xD83E;&#xDEE0;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-smiling

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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