What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji?
What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji?
See it plastered everywhere these days Edit; I used the wrong emoji, i meant this one ‘💀’
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The one you're probably thinking of is just the skull 💀 not the skull and bones ☠️. The skull on it's own means "dead" metaphorically, often from "dying of laughter" or dying of cringe depending on the contexts
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Ah sorry, you are right
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The skull and crossbones has pirate connotations. Or just for danger/death.
It was added to Unicode in 1993 so it's an original emoji.
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It was also originally more used in a context of rebellion and trying to be edgy/cool. Rather than the irony wrapped use it has nowadays.
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The skull is what's used. Skull and crossbones has never really had another meaning.
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1993, wow. That's OG.
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Not answering the question, but Lemmy lets you edit the title so you can fix it directly :)
Sometimes I might copy the original title into the post body, so that the context of the replies still make sense
What's also funny though is that "I meant this one 💀" also could be correct use of the emoji. It made sense in my head till I scrolled back to look at it
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Good to know, thanks!
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I guess I’ll put it in quotation marks, Thanks!
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I don't really know what "original use" would mean -- most emojis aren't really made with some specific usage in mind, they're just pictograms. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna
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A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., dying from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.
Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with ☠️ Skull and Crossbones, though their applications may overlap.
Skull was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Lol I didn’t know Emojipedia existed. Might be amusing. Thanks!
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Yyaaaarrrrr
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I forgor 💀
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