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deaf person
People & Bodyperson-gesture
accessibilitydeafeargesturehearperson
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Low misread risk25/100✅ Safe at work
− Avoid when: talking to an actual deaf person. the emoji has a day job and it is not this
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🌱 Starter
Can't talk. Mewing. The deaf person emoji got drafted into the jawline improvement movement: tongue on the roof of the mouth, mouth shut, gains in progress. A generation of students flashed this at teachers as a medical excuse for not answering questions, and the teachers had no counter.
When to use
- +teacher asks a question, student points at jaw, 🧏
- +"can't talk rn 🧏"
- +homework thread, no answers, forty of these
Avoid when
- −talking to an actual deaf person. the emoji has a day job and it is not this
mewingcant talkbrainrotjawline
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Urban Emoji·7/3/20260
🌱 Starter
Selective hearing. Deployed under a take you intend to ignore: I have chosen not to perceive this. The comment section version of turning your hearing aid off.
When to use
- +"you should text him back" 🧏
- +under criticism of your favorite artist, a wall of these
- +"sorry, deaf to negativity 🧏"
Avoid when
- −the person will make you hear it in real life
ignoring youselective hearingcomment section
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Urban Emoji·7/3/2026