A gorilla, the powerful, black-haired great ape. Variously depicted in full profile on all fours facing left or as a friendly, cartoon-styled gorilla face looking straight ahead.
Apple, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Microsoft’s designs feature a full gorilla, as a silverback, with strong shoulders and reddish forehead. Google, Samsung, and Twitter’s designs feature a black and gray gorilla face with a neutral expression and prominent forehead and jaw.
Facebook’s design previously featured only a gorilla face.
Gorilla was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
The "🦍" emote or "Gorilla" emote is a digital representation of a gorilla, often used in online communication to convey strength, power, or wildness. It can also be used humorously or ironically to represent clumsiness or goofiness. The emote was added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 and is available on most platforms that support emojis.
- Hope & Optimism:
"I'm hopeful that we can find a way to coexist peacefully with 🦍s and other animals." - Hope & Optimism:
"I'm glad to hear that conservation efforts are helping to protect the 🦍 population." - Anger & Disbelief:
"It's infuriating that some people still think it's okay to keep 🦍s in circuses and other forms of entertainment."
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