Communication is the fastest way to establish a relationship with others. The best way to express feelings or mood without the use of words is through the use of smileys. This is why they were put in place.
Smiley history 🫥
For several years already, emojis, emoticons, smileys, stickers, Giphy and Tenor as well as avatars have been very popular in the world of communication. Their use on social networks holds the first place, globally. In 2021, the Unicode Consortium accepted the implementation of 112 new emoji and smiley characters on smartphones (iPhone and Android). Apart from the dotted face, there is also, the face with open eyes and the hand on the mouth, a troll, a lotus flower, a heart with fingers and other emojis.
Each smartphone has their way of demonstrating the dotted face emoji, but their resemblance or commonality is on the outline of the face: always dotted in yellow. Inserted in all platforms and on social networks since September 14, 2021, it ranks among emojis. Nevertheless, it is in the years 2022 that it is used to the maximum. Sometimes it is confused with the smiley 😐 which means neutral face, and the smiley 😑 which means a face without expression.
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What does the smiley: dotted face mean?
The smiley: dotted face is polysemous since it has several different meanings, depending on the context in which it is used. Emojipedia, unveiled on World Emoji Day, which took place in July 2022, that the dotted face holds the 9th place of the most used emojis in 2022. The hypotheses relate that the smiley: dotted face is a cliche of the comics representing someone invisible.
- 1time meaning: most of the time, it is perceived as the representative smiley of introverted people. The dotted lines forming the outline of the face designate invisibility. This allows reserved people to hide. We are talking here about “being in your bubble”, isolating yourself, or depressing yourself.
- 2th meaning: by dint of being confused with its brothers, it could designate discretion and take on the meaning of being invisible or “being incognito” or even being taken as impassive. It is the dotted lines that surround it that pushes it to be in this category.
- 3th meaning: it could indicate the sign of mental fatigue in others. Despite his exhaustion, he persists in getting up or holding on. Also, it can be a sign of discomfort due to overexposure.
- 4th meaning: this smiley could be a sign of the beginning of anger "the calm before the storm". Have the lips drawn by thinning them so much it is extremely tense, even almost invisible, really as the smiley indicates.
There are several reasons why this smiley is among those most used since 2022, especially among the new generation. It adapts to several situations, especially those that require a certain discretion or to indicate an introverted person.
