Dark rings under the eyes, a dull look, an indifferent mouth. Rarely have you found yourself in an emoji as much as in this one. It has just been added to the standard list by the so-called “Unicode Consortium”. This means that you should soon find it on your own mobile phone.
The eleven-page Unicode description of the tear-bag emoji states that the primary user group was not just “young parents” and “university students”, but also “heavy alcohol consumers”, “shift workers”, “caffeine addicts” and “insomniacs”. Never has it felt more aptly described! The video of the Max Raabe song “Es wird wieder gut” (It’ll be fine again) was recently helpful, in which a little knight pierced with a sword isn’t doing particularly well either, but then the band plays bossa nova and everything gets better again. The knight’s face isn’t visible for a long time in the video because he’s wearing a helmet. But underneath it he probably looks just like this new, sensational emoji. Because no matter whether it’s about the next election or about a society that continues to not recognize the widening gap between rich and poor as the biggest problem and prefers to talk about granola and border controls – it’s exactly this face that’s ALWAYS staring back at you from the bathroom mirror.
But sure, maybe a cool Botox treatment will help – soon. In any case, you don’t need many words to make an online appointment with a plastic surgeon via Doctolib. Just that lovely round face with wonderfully dark circles under the eyes.