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🫥

dotted line face

🫥 Dotted Line Face shows a face outlined with dotted lines, giving it a faint, incomplete, almost disappearing look. It is explicitly based on comic-style visual language, where dotted or transparent outlines are used to represent reduced presence or a character fading into the background.

Most commonly, 🫥 is used to express feeling unnoticed or invisible, as if one’s presence barely registers in the situation.

The meaning of this emoji may feel unclear at first glance. This is by design, since 🫥 is meant to be flexible and can express different meanings in different situations. The following paragraphs break down its most common interpretations.

  • Everyone in the group chat ignores your message for hours.

    just gonna… disappear for a bit 🫥

Unicode
U+1FAE5
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E14.0
General

🫥 can express a quiet, inward state, often used when someone feels socially drained, low-energy, or prefers to stay unnoticed rather than actively engage. It suggests pulling back rather than shutting down.

General

🫥 is also used to signal disengagement from an unproductive situation, showing that someone no longer wants to spend energy or attention on what’s happening. It implies a quiet decision to step back or ignore the issue, with a flat, detached tone rather than anger or hostility, and often reads as the opposite of actively being “in” or involved.

  • You are disengaging from an online argument and signaling that you no longer care to invest attention or emotion in the situation.

    honestly this whole thing isn’t worth the energy 🫥 dragging people only makes you look worse 🫥 attention moves on fast anyway 🫥 muting and ignoring works way better than making a scene 🫥

General

In some contexts, 🫥 reflects a subdued depressive state, where someone feels emotionally hollow, faded, or barely present. This usage is usually quiet and internal, rather than openly expressing sadness.

General

🫥 is sometimes used to calmly acknowledge facts or realities, especially when the situation is serious but not framed emotionally.

  • A post calmly presenting factual climate data to raise awareness.

    Everyone has their own version of the truth 🫥 but here are the facts 🫥 by the middle of this century, a significant portion of the world’s glaciers is expected to melt, and large regions of the planet may become increasingly difficult to live in 🫥

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Differences between 🫥 (dotted line face) and 😶‍🌫️ (face in clouds)

Both suggest withdrawal, but in different ways. 🫥 expresses social invisibility and quiet disengagement, as if fading from view. 😶‍🌫️ points to mental fog and emotional dullness, a hazy state of distraction or overwhelm rather than being overlooked.

Usage

🫥 signals social discomfort or invisibility, while 😶‍🌫️ points to mental fog, distraction, or emotional overwhelm.

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