😭

A yellow face crying loudly with both eyes streaming and an open mouth. In 2026 it almost always means laughter, not sadness — Gen Z hijacked it as the "I'm crying [from laughing]" replacement for 😂 around 2018-2020. Occasionally still means genuine emotion, but you read which from the surrounding message. Compresses "I can't" / "this is sending me" into a single character. Dominant on TikTok comments and youth texting.