About

"💔" Has Gone Mainstream, We Now Use "🥀" refers to a series of memes on TikTok claiming that the "broken heart" emoji (💔), also known as the "heartbreak" emoji, had become mainstream and overused. The memes then urged people to use the "wilted flower" emoji (🥀), also known as the "dead rose" or "dead flower" emoji, instead. The joke is at the expense of internet users who use the 💔 and 🥀 emojis earnestly to convey that they're broken or emo performatively. The emojis were used ironically en masse following the What's a Father? meme featuring an old clip of late rapper XXXTentacion, which many dubbed "corny." The cliche was that fans of XXXTentacion used the "broken" emojis too often. The joke became commonplace among JuggTok and SlimeTok circles on TikTok that utilized Hood Irony formats like Druski Dancing and slang overload visuals similar to ICL TS PMO memes. Some blamed Dandy's World gamers for ruining the 💔 emoji. As the meme progressed, TikTokers offered new emojis to replace 🥀 like the "low battery" emoji (🪫), among others.

Origin

On February 21st, 2025, TikToker^[1] @ybgtway posted a video of a Black man dancing with a text caption reading, "'💔' lowkey starting to become too mainstream. I might just start using '🥀,'" gaining over 39,200 likes in four days (shown below).

Spread

In the following days, TikTokers posted videos attesting similar statements about using 🥀 instead of 💔. For instance, on February 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[2] @zane2low posted a Druski Dancing meme, claiming that, "' 💔' has gone mainstream and Dandy's World players have been using it," gaining over 272,400 likes in three days (shown below).

Also on February 23rd, TikToker^[3] @dariusthegoat5 shared a JamWayne meme that said, "Attention everyone! '💔' has officially become mainstream… We will now be using '🥀🥀,'" receiving over 259,700 likes in three days (shown below).

On February 24th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @p4st3l_p0sh posted a Druski Dancing meme, stating, "We are now moving to 🥀 / And if that fails we move to 🪫 / And worst case scenario '🍂,'" amassing over 107,900 likes in two days (shown below).

On February 25th, TikToker^[5] @evanbrolanaiba posted another Druski Dancing meme, claiming that 💔, 🥀, 🪫 and 🍂 had all gone mainstream and provided a list of the "new meta," gaining over 16,300 likes in a day (shown below).

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