SOB
$SOB

$SOB

Also called SOB. A Unicode emoji (U+1F62D) added in 2010. People use it for real crying, jokes that hit too hard, and any feeling that needs more volume than a period.

Basics

Official name
Loudly Crying Face
Code point
U+1F62D
Shortcodes
:sob: :loudly_crying_face:
Unicode
6.0 路 2010
Emoji version
1.0 路 2015
Category
Smileys & Emotion

History

Japanese phone carriers had crying-face pictographs first. Unicode 6.0 gave this one a stable code point in 2010. Slack, Discord, and GitHub popularized the shortcode :sob:. By the early 2020s it was everyday caption punctuation, not only a grief mark.

  1. 2010

    Added to Unicode

    Ships in Unicode 6.0 as Loudly Crying Face, U+1F62D.

  2. 2015

    Emoji 1.0

    Marked for emoji presentation. Vendor drawings settle; Apple鈥檚 clenched-eyes version is the one most people picture.

  3. 2010s

    :sob: shortcode

    Chat apps teach the name SOB. Official title stays Loudly Crying Face.

  4. 2020s

    Everyday use

    Common in captions and comments for overwhelm, not only sadness. Stacks (馃槶馃槶馃槶) turn the volume up.

Art

3D SOB stills and a cubicle loop. Click a piece to open it.