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Cold Face Emoji refers to a blue-colored emoji with gritted teeth, suggesting it's freezing. Online, the emoji is often used as a comment on an emotionally distant or "cool" thing, occasionally being used like Ice In My Veins pose alongside Sheesh videos.

Origin

On July 5th, 2018, the emoji became part of Unicode 11.0 with the name "Freezing Face." It was added to Emoji 11.0 in the same year^[1] (shown below).

Spread

The emoji grew popular as a way to express that a person or character is "cool." For example on October 1st, 2022, YouTube^[2] user Anime Wo uploaded shorts of the character Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece being "cold." The short received more than 1.3 million views in ten months (shown below, left). On October 26th, 2022, YouTube^[3] user NQ Films uploaded a Breaking Bad clip titled "So Cold 🥶 | Breaking Bad". The video received more than 1.1 million views in ten months (shown below, right).

Related Memes

Sheesh

Sheesh, or Sheeesh, is a popular slang term and an alternative to "jeez" or "damn," used to express surprise or disbelief about something, often in a positive manner, and hype up or compliment another person. The term has existed since the 1950s and saw a significant increase in use throughout the 2010s, popularized to a degree by NBA player LeBron James and drip culture, inspiring a popular sound on TikTok in early 2021. The expression is often combined with the Ice In My Veins pose (examples shown below).

Thomas Shelby

Thomas Shelby is a main protagonist from the 2013 UK TV series Peaky Blinders, known as the leader of the Birmingham Criminal Gang. Starting in 2022, Shelby gained fame as Literally Me character in Indonesia under the nickname Thomas Slebew and was frequently related to with the cold face 🥶 emoji, referring to his outfits being "cool" (examples shown below).

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