Exploding head turns "mind blown" into a picture: the skull's top half detonates while the face below stays stunned and toothless. Use it for news that floors you, a fact you can't unhear, or the exact moment your brain hits capacity.
What 🤯 means
A yellow face with just the lower half of the head, the top half is an illustration of an exploded head with some brain sticking out. The lower half of the face has blank eyes and a surprised, toothless mouth.
The 🤯 Exploding Head emoji depicts a state of being 'mind-blown'. But in hindsight, it can also mean frustration, exhaustion, and mental saturation. This emoji has a literal meaning of having a splitting headache or a migraine too (morbid, but that's an angle).
How and when to use it
- If you're having an impossible conversation, use this emoji in those lines (but disclaimer, it can piss the other person off).
- If you're talking about that impossible conversation you had with another person, use this emoji to express the gist of that conversation (it's safer to use it here).
- Use this emoji while telling your boyfriend/girlfriend about the horribly long day you had.
- You can also use this emoji as a reaction to something incredible you just witnessed (hence, the term 'mind blown').
Other Names
- 🤯 Mind Blown
- 🤯 Mind-Blowing
- 🤯 Headache
- 🤯 Frustration
- 🤯 Amazed
- 🤯 Shocked Face With Exploding Head
🤯 OMG
🤯 Unbelievable
🤯 in real conversations
What does 🤯 mean in texting?
Mind blown — shock, disbelief, or information that's genuinely hard to process. 'Wait, they're related?! 🤯' is the exact use case: a fact so unexpected it short-circuits the reply.
What does 🤯 mean from a girl?
Total shock at news, gossip, or a plot twist — reacting to something so surprising that a normal 'wow' doesn't cover it. It's dramatic by design, meant to oversell just how blindsided someone is.
Is 🤯 good or bad shock?
Either — it works for amazing news and terrible news equally, since the face is about the size of the surprise, not whether it's welcome. What it's replying to decides the tone.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
- Codepoints
U+1F92F- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:exploding_head::shocked_face_with_exploding_head:Slack- Keywords
- blown, explode, exploding, head, mind, mindblown, no, shocked, way
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🤯 Exploding Head or 💿 Optical Disk?