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The Dead Rose Emoji, also known as the Wilted Flower Emoji, refers to the 🥀 emoji that depicts a wilted rose. It's used online to represent being damaged or heartbroken, earnestly shared by emo internet users. Ironic use predominantly surfaced in early 2025, mostly in reaction to the use of the broken heart or heartbreak emoji (💔) in memes like Dih To Yo Crack / Slide That Shi In Gng 💔 and late rapper XXXTentacion saying, What's a Father? The overuse of the heartbreak emoji led to TikTokers on so-called JuggTok switching to the dead rose emoji because the heartbreak one had become too mainstream. The dead rose emoji then amassed use in slang overload posts similar to ICL TS PMO and incorporated into emojipastas and copypastas like Nah She Got You Blushing Twin.

Origin

The "wilted flower" emoji, sometimes called the "dead rose" emoji," was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.^[1] The emoji amassed viral use on Twitter / X ^[2][3] in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

On October 1st, 2023, X^[4] user @midsmoker34 tweeted an AI image of a hypebeast Peter Griffin, captioned, "If I told you a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? 🥀," gaining over 17,000 likes in two years (shown below). It is one of the first discovered instances of the 🥀 emoji's satirical use.

However, the dead rose emoji became a meme mostly because of a trend started in late February 2025 as a reaction to a series of memes that used the broken heart emoji (💔) like Dih To Yo Crack / Slide That Shi In Gng 💔.

On February 21st, 2025, TikToker^[5] @ybgtway posted a video of a guy dancing with a text caption reading, "'💔' lowkey starting to become too mainstream. I might just start using '🥀,'" gaining over 32,900 likes in a month (shown below).

Spread

The abovementioned video in late February 2025 started a slew of viral videos on TikTok that promoted the ironic use of 🥀 instead of 💔.

For instance, on February 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[6] @zane2low posted a Druski Dancing meme, claiming that, "' 💔' has gone mainstream and Dandy's World players have been using it," gaining over 293,800 likes in 19 days (shown below).

On March 6th, X^[7] user @hanorexic_ made fun of a TikTok post showing a girl's O-face expressions for varying degrees of controversial men, captioning it, "Are we deaduzz 💔💔🥀," with the word "deaduzz" being an -Uzz suffix word. The tweet received over 17,000 likes in eight days (shown below).

On March 10th, 2025, TikToker^[8] @anomalocaris_supremacy posted a meme that joked about what ancient creatures had to "goon" to, using the wilted flower emoji. The post received over 531,300 likes in four days (shown below).

Related Memes

Nah She Got You Blushing Twin

Nah She Got You Blushing Twin refers to a voice message and copypasta in which a man reprimands his friend over him using a blushing emoji, telling him to lock up, which ends with a short sample from the track "Ten Toes" by BubbaGotBeatz. Originally recorded and shared by Instagram user Rezki in late December 2024, in March 2025, the soundbite achieved virality on TikTok, where it inspired 99.99% Accuracy Reenactment memes and an emojipasta filled with Wilted Flower 🥀 emojis.

The copypasta reads:

Nah🥀she's🥀got🥀u🥀blushing🥀twin🥀ah🥀hell🥀nah🥀twin🥀u🥀gotta🥀lock🥀up🥀twin🥀bruh🥀this🥀not🥀even🥀u🥀twin🥀on🥀fonem🥀grave🥀bru🥀𝓮𝓾𝓪𝓪𝓱𝓱🥀

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