Angry face for facebook status6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() HAPPY HALLOWEEN □□ /jpIobYRii5- Sofie Dossi October 31, 2018 □ Angry Face With Horns often represents or evokes devils, demons, and other such supernatural beings in art and culture, especially around Halloween. (Vendor / Emojipedia composite) ✅ Examples Above: How Angry Face With Horns displays across major platforms. Microsoft’s design is colored a classic devil red while Facebook’s is more realistic-and more evil, with glowing, green eyes, black horns, and gritted teeth. Its purple face bears the same expression as its □ Angry Face and □ Pouting Face: a frowning mouth and eyes with eyebrows scrunched downward in anger. (Vendors / Emojipedia composite)Īs ever, Apple’s □ Angry Face With Horns, essentially unchanged since its original 2008 implementation under iOS 2.2, has led the way in how the emoji now displays across major platforms. HTC and emojidex have also featured more child-like stylings. Above (left to right): Earlier, child-based designs of Angry Face With Horns on au by KDDI ( Type D-3, 2005) Samsung ( TouchWiz Nature UX 2, 2013) Google ( Android 4.4, 2013) SoftBank ( 2014) and Microsoft ( Windows 10, 2015). More adorably, SoftBank and au by KDDI suggested a child dressed up as a demon, as Max from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are swapped out his wolf suit for his rumpus. Many early forms of □ Angry Face With Horns, including from Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, portrayed a youthful face that was winged, horned, and sometimes fanged. The word was applied to a “child” by the 1300s, specifically of evil beings by the 1500s, i.e., a “child” of the devil, and metaphorically extended to a “mischievous child’” by the 1600s-a sort of Dennis the Menace of the early modern world. In Old English, an imp was the “young shoot” or “scion” of a plant or tree. Above: The Lincoln Imp, a storied grotesque in England's Lincoln Cathedral ( Honking / Wikimedia)Įtymology, here, is instructive. ![]() These tiny tricksters-often grotesque-looking creatures with wings and horns, as SoftBank and au by KDDI originally depicted-were fabled to attend on witches or the devil, e.g., an imp of Satan. (Other emojis based on folklore include □ Ogre and □ Goblin, both based on mythical creatures in Japanese tradition). The folklore of many cultures, especially in Europe, told of imps, or little demons that caused mischief. In both designs, we can almost hear the wee fiend laughing shrilly and maniacally, as if plotting a prank: “Nah-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!” And, both designs aptly suggest its Unicode namesake: an imp. Above: How Angry Face With Horns previously displayed on SoftBank (left, 1999) and on au by KDDI (right, 2002) prior to Unicode standardization. Another early Japanese iteration, from au by KDDI in 2002, shows a creature with lopsided ears wielding what might be a pitchfork or staff. That year, SoftBank featured the full form of a small demon, blue in hue with a tail, bat-like wings, and two, long, horn-like ears over a red mouth. ![]() □ Angry Face With Horns was added to the Unicode standard in 2010, but had been bedeviling Japanese keyboards as early as 1999. Generally depicted as a scowling, purple face with devil horns, □ Angry Face With Horns is commonly used to represent devils, devilish behavior, ideas of evil, and various feelings of anger and frustration. ![]() It's time for mythology to meet Emojiology. But, as they say, the devil’s in the details: This emoji’s official Unicode name is actually Imp. Indeed, □ Angry Face With Horns is commonly called Devil. Above: Alignment charts for □ Baby Angel □ Angry Face With Horns. ![]()
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