Popcorn Emoji
Cinema snacking, and online the universal sign for settling in to watch drama unfold.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Popcorn emoji mean?
Cinema snacking, and online the universal sign for settling in to watch drama unfold.
Amused and spectatorial. Online it usually means you are enjoying an argument you have no intention of joining, which is teasing rather than neutral.
How to use 🍿 naturally
Film nights, and replying to an argument you are enjoying from a safe distance.
Food and drink emoji are most often literal, but they also signal plans, cravings, celebrations and shared routines. Context is especially important when a food has a slang meaning in a particular community.
From standard to slang
The history of 🍿
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Popcorn was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A striped carton overflowing with popcorn. Its meaning online is almost entirely about watching an argument happen rather than about food.
- Today
How its use evolved
Film nights, and replying to an argument you are enjoying from a safe distance.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🍿 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Reading the comments with 🍿
Film night, seven o'clock 🍿
This thread is going somewhere 🍿
When to use it
Using 🍿 clearly
Film nights, and replying to an argument you are enjoying from a safe distance. It lands as popcorn emoji meaning or 🍿 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the popcorn emoji
What does 🍿 mean in a text message?
Cinema snacking, and online the universal sign for settling in to watch drama unfold. Amused and spectatorial. Online it usually means you are enjoying an argument you have no intention of joining, which is teasing rather than neutral.
Is 🍿 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are popcorn emoji meaning, 🍿 meaning, watching drama emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🍿 look different on another device?
U+1F37F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the popcorn emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🍿 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the popcorn emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🍿 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🍿 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F37F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🍿 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🍿 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F37F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F37F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8D%BF | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F37F
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Also known as
- popcorn emoji meaning🍿 meaningwatching drama emoji
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