📹
What 📹 means
This camera has a grey body with a button and a battery slot on its visible side, a lens up front, a viewfinder at the back, and a boxy edge protruding below.
The 📹 Video Camera emoji represents a camcorder that is generally used leisurely during vacations, birthdays, anniversaries, and other such special moments. It signifies memories, recordings, and recreational use.
How and when to use it
- If you're the kind to video record the most, you could use 📹 when someone denies something (yes, blackmail - but a subtle and casual version of it). Like, "Um.. I'd beg to differ, coz, for the record, you DID pee your pants while you were drunk 📹" (bold words = wordplay).
- Although a camcorder is a personal gadget of storage and recording, it acts as a powerful tool for evidence and proof. If you're using this kind of concrete evidence in any context, bring in 📹 - "I don't believe anything without proof 📹 Neither should you".
- Recording something or 'going on record' essentially signifies the officiality of something. If you're sharing 'official' news that was personally recorded or forwarded you could use 📹.
- While sharing videos that were recorded first hand on a camcorder, use 📹 in the caption. This works even for reposted videos that were shot on a video recorder and not a phone per se.
Other Names
- 📹 Camcorder
- 📹 Recorder
- 📹 Video Recorder
- 📹 Video Cam
- 📹 Video Recording
- 📹 Camera for Videos
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › light & video
- Codepoints
U+1F4F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:video_camera:- Keywords
- camcorder, camera, tbt, video
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📹 Video Camera or 🧘 Person in Lotus Position?