The neutral face smiley with raised eyebrow belongs to the neutral expression face emoji family. But this emoji is still expressive. He is represented by a face displaying a grimace of hardness: with scrutinizing eyes, a mouth represented by a horizontal line reflecting a peremptory air and a pair of frowning and exaggeratedly misaligned eyebrows: one is clearly raised in relation to the other. , suggesting disbelief and annoyance. He has exasperated features in the majority of messengers, and this gives him an air of rigidity and coldness.
This emoji, which displays a kind of grimace, is in fact a close neighbor of the ❓ and 😱 emojis. It is also known by other names and are called Raised Eyebrows Emoji and related to Suspicious and Skeptical Smileys, it belongs to the categories of 😂 Smileys & Emotion and subgroup 🤐 Neutral-Skeptic-Face.
The Raised Eyebrows Face Emoji popularity index has seen moderately steady growth over the past five years. First, from 2018 to 2019 the curve had a convergent trend with an interval of 15 to 50 %, then in 2021 it started to increase and reached the rate of 100 % in March 2022, and then it went down again but with an average rhythm around 75 %.
Meaning and use
This emoji is used to express a feeling of suspicion, annoyance, judgment towards a person or in response to a potentially conflicting situation: for example in the case of lies. It can replace different expressions conveying a strong feeling of defiance, such as: I'm not fooled, I can see your game clearly, don't tell me shit, they didn't do it to me. His expression describes a wide range of emotions including doubt, concern, and consideration. In case of doubt, he tries to remind the interlocutor that he is not sure what the latter has addressed to him and invites him directly to verify the fact, this is represented by the bent position of a of those eyebrows.
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It can also indicate disapproval, which is often followed by its user's insistence on introducing what they think is right. In other cases, it denotes an incredulity, and this is close to the meaning it signifies for doubt. It also features mild surprise, distrust and skepticism.
The smiley face with raised eyebrows is intended to show the interlocutor a need for assurance on some fact or subject in the conversation. This justifies the gesture showing concern, doubt and mistrust. On the other hand, the fact that he displays a grimace of harshness proves an insistence on the case of disapproval, and accentuates the need for security.
The curve showing its popularity index underlined a moderate trend in its rates over the past five years. This means that the relevance of this emoji has made an impact on the platforms, but its evolution is not phenomenal.
