melting face

🫠

melting face

It’s a distorted smiley literally liquifying—keeping a grin while it slowly vanishes into a puddle 🫠.

This emoji 🫠 is the go-to for peak awkwardness and "cringe" moments where you just want to disappear into the floor (つд⊂). It perfectly captures that "I’m dying inside" feeling after a major social fail 🫠🫠🫠.

Whether you’re melting from a heatwave or just giving up and lying flat under the weight of life (:з」∠), it’s the mascot for our generation's mental state 🫠: staying polite and keeping that smile on, even as your soul is slowly leaving your body 🫠

  • When you accidentally text your boss instead of your boyfriend...

    I am literally vanishing into the floor 🫠

Subgroups
Unicode
U+1FAE0
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E14.0
General

🫠 can also mean that the emoji closely resembles the famous "This Is Fine" dog meme. It represents a state of being overwhelmed or burnt out, acting as a mask for those who feel the need to maintain a polite smile while internally collapsing under the pressure of chaos 🫠🫠. It conveys a sense of quiet desperation: the feeling of "losing it" privately while slowly dissolving into a puddle of exhaustion. 🫠🔥

Cross-cultural

On Chinese social media, 🫠 has recently gone viral for a completely different vibe: expressing absolute obsession, heart-fluttering moments, or "simping" for a guy or a celeb.

In this context, it’s like saying you’re so "down bad" that you’re physically melting from their charisma. Your inner monologue is basically screaming: "Omg, he’s so fine! (/ω\)🫠" or "His rizz is actually insane! (⸝⸝⸝ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ⌑ ᵒ̴̶̷̥́⸝⸝⸝)" It captures that specific state of being so "into" someone that your heart turns into a puddle and you just can't function.

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