Face with tears of joy

Laughing until crying. It is the standard reaction to anything funny: a joke, a meme, an embarrassing story, a friend's terrible pun.

Sent alone as a reply, stacked as 😂😂😂, or tacked onto a line to mark it as a joke. It works with almost anyone, from family chats to casual work channels.

Many younger users consider it uncool and use 💀 or 😭 for the same reaction, so heavy use of 😂 can mark the sender as older.

Facts

Face with tears of joy 😂 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. 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 :joy: or :face_with_tears_of_joy:. People also look for it with words like “crying”, “face”, “feels”, or “funny”.

Timeline

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

Design history

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

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0