What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji

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• vind@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The one you’re probably thinking of is just the skull 💀 not the skull and bones ☠️. The skull on it’s own means “dead” metaphorically, often from “dying of laughter” or dying of cringe depending on the contexts

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  • fastandcurious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah sorry, you are right

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• Nighed@sffa.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The skull and crossbones has pirate connotations. Or just for danger/death.

  It was added to Unicode in 1993 so it’s an original emoji.

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  • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was also originally more used in a context of rebellion and trying to be edgy/cool. Rather than the irony wrapped use it has nowadays.

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  • sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1993, wow. That’s OG.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not answering the question, but Lemmy lets you edit the title so you can fix it directly :)

  Sometimes I might copy the original title into the post body, so that the context of the replies still make sense

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  • fastandcurious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess I’ll put it in quotation marks, Thanks!

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  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good to know, thanks!

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• palebluethought@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t really know what “original use” would mean – most emojis aren’t really made with some specific usage in mind, they’re just programs. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna

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• Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skull 💀

  A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., dying from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.

  Popular around Halloween. Not to be confused with ☠️ Skull and Crossbones, though their applications may overlap.

  Skull was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

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• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  emojipedia.org/skull-and-crossbones

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  • magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol I didn’t know Emojipedia existed. Might be amusing. Thanks!

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• shellsharks@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger

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  • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yyaaaarrrrr

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• Echo5@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I forgor 💀

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