Jennifer Daniel, on her “Did Someone Say Emoji?” blog:
First came Melting Face 🫠, our collective surrender to the
liquid state.Then Dotted Line Face 🫥, the visual representation of sublimation:
turning from a solid into a gas just to escape a conversation.Now, we have Distorted Face (U+1FAEA), a moment defined by
tension: where you aren’t just feeling an emotion — you are being
physically altered by it.
I’ll live, but it feels a tad spiteful that Apple only adds new emoji to the current-year OS updates. So this year’s 8 new emoji are in MacOS 26.4, but not MacOS 15.7.5, despite both being released this week.
