sunglasses emoji

Emojis undoubtedly changed the messaging game for good. Gone are the days of texting using actual text. This is the future. In 2015, a tiny picture of a woman dancing in a red dress next to another tiny picture of poop with a face can represent anything and everything.

Yet with all of this emoji madness, there’s one emoji that stands out from the pack. This one minuscule graphic somehow manages to be miles in front of the pack of the rest of its emoji brethren. This king of emojis is so amazing and entrancing that it won’t even look you in the eyes, mostly because there’s no way of knowing if its tiny yellow face actually has eyes. It’s the ever-popular sunglasses emoji.

The sunglasses emoji is always smiling, its simple half-circle smirk constantly daring you to place it next to your line of text.

Just aced a test and want to show the world how causally successful and intelligent you are? Sunglasses emoji.

Are you driving to the #beach and need everyone to know that you’re excited for the trip, but you want to reinforce the fact that you’re still laid back and chill? Sunglasses emoji.

Have you just dropped an entire pizza on the floor and want to parody your own misfortune by putting something cool-looking next to a sad statement because you’re a genius who knows how to juxtapose elements for comedic effect? Sunglasses emoji.

The sunglasses emoji is such a cultural force that it has slowly become an adjective. You can feel incredibly sunglasses emoji if you just did something hip, trendy or cool. But beware, because you can also do something that is not very sunglasses emoji if ever you do something lame.

The sunglasses emoji is a movement. It’s an icon. It’s every cool song and every cool pop star and every cool feeling you have ever felt rolled into one tiny yellow face with black sunglasses. It graces the emoji keyboard with its presence and most likely always occupies a space in your most-used emoji section.

It’ll always be there to tell the world (or whomever you happen to be texting) that even though you might be clad in sweatpants and an ill-fitting shirt, your overall sense of being is sporting the coolest of glasses.