Alien monster

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Shortcode
:space_invader:
Shortcode
:alien_monster:
Unicode
U+1F47E
HTML
👾
CSS
\1F47E
JavaScript
"\u{1F47E}"
URL
%F0%9F%91%BE

aliencreatureextraterrestrialfacefairyfairytalefantasygamegamergamesmonsterpixelatedspacetaleufo

What ๐Ÿ‘พ means

A pixel-art space invader: retro gaming and arcade culture.

Common in gaming chat, streams and tech posts, and for anything with an 8-bit feel. Gamers use it for game nights, and some use it as a quirky alien-themed decoration in bios.

Facts

Alien monster ๐Ÿ‘พ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face costume. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :space_invader: or :alien_monster:. People also look for it with words like โ€œalienโ€, โ€œcreatureโ€, โ€œextraterrestrialโ€, or โ€œfaceโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. alien monster, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. alien monster, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. alien monster, Google (Noto) design from 20182018
  4. alien monster, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. alien monster, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. alien monster, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion ยท Unicode 6.0