Skull 💀
Copy & Meaning

The skull emoji, depicting a white human skull. Common usage includes 'Halloween💀' 'I'm dying💀' or 'So embarrassing💀' Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Historically, the skull has carried diverse meanings—death, danger, poison, pirates (Jolly Roger), heavy metal culture, Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), and Halloween. Among Gen Z, it has become wildly popular as slang meaning 'so funny I'm dying,' 'crazy,' or 'laughing to death,' replacing the 'face with tears of joy' emoji as the preferred way to express extreme amusement.

On social media, it's used to convey English slang like 'I'm dead,' 'Dead,' 'Dying,' or 'This is killing me,' particularly exploding in popularity on TikTok and Twitter since 2020. Beyond modern slang, it appears in posts about Pirates of the Caribbean, Halloween costumes, horror movies, heavy metal music, metal bands, and Day of the Dead celebrations. It's a versatile emoji spanning serious symbolism and humorous internet culture.