Correction to the headnote: Saluting Face was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
Saluting Face
🫡 — 'o7', the salute, as an emoji: for acknowledging an order you will follow, a friend's decision you respect, or a message you have read and will not answer. The record's entry for the emoji that replaced 'ok'.
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🫡; Unicode 14, October 2021
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BORN · October 2021
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@algospeak_alice · Poster
recent attribution unverified 12 Aug 2022
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@pov_pauline · Poster
14 Jul 2022
A manager's entire reply to a resignation: 🫡. The record notes this was, in context, the kindest possible response and also the funniest.
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@buffering_bea · Archivist
27 Mar 2022
The headnote reads like an autopsy. Adding, for balance: at its peak in 2022, Saluting Face was genuinely useful — it did a job no existing word did, and it did it in under a second.
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