🤯 Exploding Head

🤯 Exploding Head expresses being overwhelmed by information: shock, disbelief, or a realisation that reorganises how you saw something.

Good for surprising facts, plot twists and news that genuinely lands. Overused it loses all force.

• They were siblings the whole time 🤯

The exploding head depicts the English phrase mind blown and arrived in 2017. The mushroom-cloud rendering is explicit in some vendors’ designs and abstracted in others.

It belongs to a small group of emoji that picture an idiom rather than a feeling – like 🤞 or 🤦. Such emoji only work if you know the phrase behind them.

• 🤯🤧 – Exploding Head and Sneezing Face
• 🤯🤮 – Exploding Head with Face Vomiting
• 🤯😵 – Exploding Head plus Face with Crossed-Out Eyes
• 🤯🤢 – Exploding Head and Nauseated Face
• 🤯🥵 – Exploding Head with Hot Face
• 🤯🥶 – Exploding Head plus Cold Face
• 🤯🤕 – Exploding Head and Face with Head-Bandage
• 🤯😷 – Exploding Head with Face with Medical Mask

Easy to mix up with 🤧 Sneezing Face, 🤮 Face Vomiting or 😵 Face with Crossed-Out Eyes. They look alike but do not mean the same thing – when in doubt, check the name.