Selfie

A hand holding a smartphone, facing outward as if taking a selfie.

The 🤳 Selfie emoji represents taking selfies, capturing moments, or showing off style, mood, or confidence. It’s often used in posts about personal updates, nights out, or feeling good in your skin.

It can also carry sarcastic, performative, or ironic tones—especially when used to poke fun at vanity, self-promotion, or influencer culture. Gen Z and younger millennials use it in both genuine and self-aware ways, while older users tend to use it more literally.

It’s also seen in captions that joke about oversharing, filters, or “doing it for the gram.”