fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agoWhat was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareWhat was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji?fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-28 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·8 months agoThe skull and crossbones has pirate connotations. Or just for danger/death. It was added to Unicode in 1993 so it’s an original emoji.
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·8 months agoIt 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.
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·8 months agoThe skull is what’s used. Skull and crossbones has never really had another meaning.
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.
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.
The skull is what’s used. Skull and crossbones has never really had another meaning.
1993, wow. That’s OG.