Two exclamation marks in one bold symbol. It adds strong emphasis: urgent, exciting, or very important.
People put ‼️ after big news, warnings and hype, like 'tickets drop at noon‼️'. It reads louder than ❗ but less frantic than a long string of !!!. As a reaction it says 'this matters'.
Facts
Double exclamation mark ‼️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under punctuation. 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 :bangbang: or :double_exclamation_mark:. People also look for it with words like “!”, “!!”, “bangbang”, or “double”.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.