While less common, the melting face emoji can often be used to represent this feeling. “Awwwwww, I love you too, babe! 🫠” “Yesterday was the best day of my life.

The melting face, I realised, is an inward sinking that occurs below the surface and can't truly be seen from the outside. It is puddling in shame and stress while pretending to be fine.

The winner of the Most Anticipated Emoji went to the face with bags under its eyes and the Most 2024 Emoji award went to the melting face (🫠) for the second year in a row -- it still fits.

The melting face emoji was released in September 2021. It started out as a perfect way to express the dread, exhaustion, and "I'm barely hanging on" at a time the world was still reeling from the ...

How the melting face emoji became the sign of our times. By Thomas Mitchell. February 1, 2023 — 10.45am. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later.

Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson took to X (formerly Twitter) and tweeted the melting smiley face emoji, which isn't great. 🫠 — Logan Wilson (@ljw21) March 6, 2025 ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

Every so often a piece of art comes along that captures a moment in history, and in 2022 the hieroglyphic on the cave wall is undoubtedly the melting face emoji. Recently I was having dinner with ...