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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Ah sorry, you are right
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.
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
What's also funny though is that "I meant this one 💀" also could be correct use of the emoji. It made sense in my head till I scrolled back to look at it
Good to know, thanks!
I guess I’ll put it in quotation marks, Thanks!
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 pictograms. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna
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.
I forgor 💀