WHERE DOES đŸ«  MELTING FACE EMOJI COME FROM?

The Melting Face emoji đŸ«  was approved under Unicode 14.0 in 2021. On most platforms, the emoji resembles a yellow smiling face with a bottom half that is melting.

The Melting Face emoji đŸ«  was designed by Neil Cohn and Jennifer Daniel in 2019. According to Cohn, the emoji was inspired by a trope in Japanese manga in which an embarrassed character will turn into paper and fly away. The Melting Face emoji đŸ«  was intended to be “more visceral” while still being flexible enough to use to describe a wide variety of emotions.

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