rolling on the floor laughing
Unicode: 1F923
Description
A yellow face with a wide, open-mouthed grin, tears streaming down its cheeks, and sometimes red cheeks. It signifies overwhelming laughter or amusement.
Group:
Smileys & Emotion > face-smiling
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents intense hilarity, uncontrollable laughter, or being overcome with amusement to the point of crying. It conveys extreme joy from something funny.
Backstory
This emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 (2016) as 'Rolling On The Floor Laughing' (ROFL). It quickly gained popularity as an even more intense expression of laughter than the 'Face With Tears of Joy' (😂) emoji, depicting a facial expression common in internet culture to show extreme amusement.
Usage Examples
- Responding to a hilarious meme: 'I'm dead 😂😂😂🤣'
- After hearing a really good joke: 'That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! 🤣'
- Describing a comical situation: 'You should have seen it, I was literally 🤣'
- Expressing extreme amusement during a conversation: '🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Widely used to indicate that something is very funny, often as a direct response to a joke or humorous situation.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often employed in contexts where one is truly amused or entertained, sometimes alongside other laughter-related emojis.