Gorilla

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Shortcode: :gorilla:
Unicode: U+1F98D
HTML: 🦍
CSS: \1F98D
JavaScript: "\u{1F98D}"
URL: %F0%9F%A6%8D

What 🦍 means

A gorilla. It stands for raw strength, size, and power, and for apes in general.

Gym strength, a big intimidating friend, and wild-animal posts are common uses. Meme-stock investors call themselves apes and pair 🦍 with 🚀 and 💎🙌 to say they are holding on together. It also shows up in “apes together strong” jokes.

As with 🐒, aiming it at a Black person reads as a racist insult.

Facts

Gorilla 🦍 is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :gorilla:. People also look for it with words like “animal”.