Culturally, the concept overlaps with manga anger marks, comic-book sound effects, storm symbolism, and internet reaction imagery used to show drama or emotional volatility. It would have worked well in contexts such as โbad mood,โ โheated argument,โ โbrainstorm,โ โsudden idea,โ โthunderous reaction,โ or โelectric energy.โ Its absence from the official emoji set may be because similar meanings can be approximated with existing emoji such as โก High Voltage, ๐ฌ Speech Balloon, ๐ก Enraged Face, ๐ข Anger Symbol, or ๐ฉ๏ธ Cloud With Lightning.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
