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😭 Loudly Crying Face emoji

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What does the 😭 Loudly Crying Face emoji mean?

The loudly crying face emoji shows a smiley that is crying uncontrollably—it just can’t handle it and is losing its cool. This could be due to sadness and frustration … but also laughter and joy. Fans like to use the emoji when they meet or see their favorite music performers or celebrities, as if they are sobbing in excitement.

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Where does 😭 Loudly Crying Face emoji come from?

The loudly crying face emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It depicts a yellow smiley crying whose tears, on most platforms, cascade down its cheeks and even sometimes pool into a puddle below, as we see on Samsung and Twitter (dramatic much?)

The point of the loudly crying face emoji is extremes—the face is meant to show someone is crying from some overwhelming emotion, from sadness and happiness to exhaustion and laughter.

Examples of 😭 Loudly Crying Face emoji

I’m a LICENSED ESTHETICIAN NOWWWWWWWW!!!! I passssed my state board!!😭🙏✊🔥🔥
@_Larrs_, May, 2018
YALL @WakaFlocka TOOK MY PHONE AND TOOK A SNAP VIDEO IM DEAD 😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@ShaunaChilder, May, 2018
My fiancé and i want to go to a place where we can relax and swim (NO museums) but i have no idea where else to go 😭 is there any nice places that we can go in or around Saturnia and what activities can we do ? And we would love to go to a place where there is night life
443nanisa, Trip Advisor, May, 2018

Who uses 😭 Loudly Crying Face emoji?

Though the loudly crying face emoji is meant to show someone sobbing, in texts and on social media people don’t exactly use it when they are genuinely sad (e.g., when they lose a loved one). Instead, its tears are reserved for something that has brought them tremendous joy, hilarity, or some gushy sentiment. (We’re looking at you, K-pop fans.) Maybe we should changes its name to face with tears of love emoji?

On the darker side of the emotional spectrum, the loudly crying face emoji can convey frustration or mock someone for being a crybaby, sometimes followed in posts with an ugh, wah!, or why?

NOTE

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