🙃 Upside-Down Face

🙃 Upside-Down Face is a smile flipped on its head, and that is exactly its function: it inverts the meaning of the sentence in front of it. It signals sarcasm, awkwardness, or cheerful resignation in the face of something going wrong.

Text has never had a good sarcasm mark. This emoji has quietly become one.

Use it to flag a joke that could otherwise be taken seriously, or to admit that a situation is bad while refusing to be dramatic about it.

• Great, the server is down again 🙃
• Slept four hours, feeling amazing 🙃

The upside-down face arrived in 2015 and quickly became the standard marker of passive aggression and resigned irony: “going great” about everything that is not going great.

It is thus one of the few emoji whose principal meaning is practically the opposite of its picture. Unicode describes it neutrally as “upside-down face” – the meaning was created entirely by use.

• 🙃😇 – Upside-Down Face and Smiling Face with Halo
• 🙃😁 – Upside-Down Face with Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🙃🤣 – Upside-Down Face plus Rolling on the Floor Laughing
• 🙃😆 – Upside-Down Face and Grinning Squinting Face
• 🙃😄 – Upside-Down Face with Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🙃😅 – Upside-Down Face plus Grinning Face with Sweat
• 🙃😊 – Upside-Down Face and Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🙃🙂 – Upside-Down Face with Slightly Smiling Face

Easy to mix up with 😇 Smiling Face with Halo, 😁 Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes or 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing. They look alike but do not mean the same thing – when in doubt, check the name.