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The smiling bucktooth emoji, also known as the stupid emoji, is making its way up the emoji rankings. The funny face, which shot to popularity as a frequently used Twitter emoji in early 2023, has also been fused with another version of the bucktoothed emoji to create a gif that has been floating around Twitter quite frequently these days.
The emoji is usually sourced from stock image websites like Shutterstock and Dreamstime or just taken by viewers from another person's tweets. It is often used in tweets and memes to express stupidity. This is a result of the emoji's innocently naive and borderline dumb appearance.
Most of the time, the emoji is used as a reaction attached to a funny caption or tweet. It showcases a wide-open smile, alongside a shiny white bucktooth on the top and bottom with traces of a tongue in the middle and a pair of wide-open eyes with peppy eyebrows, squeezed in due to ever-so-slightly blushing cheeks.
The Smiling Bucktooth Emoji is the latest viral meme format
According to knowyourmeme.com, the origins of the smiling bucktooth's rise to fame can be traced back to October 2022, when Twitter user Kayla Smetsee, who goes by @smetsee, tweeted another version of the emoji, with the caption "her: are you stupid/me:".
This is what is said to have inspired the very first popular usage of the smiling bucktooth emoji. The honor of such an achievement was helmed by a Twitter user @icedanecr.
The original post amassed over 684,000 views and 21,600 likes. The caption accompanying the post was similar to the first one, now with "him" replacing "her".
What followed was a bucktooth emoji revolution.
Countless jokes and memes were accompanied by the now viral vector emoticon. A few users even switched up the game and combined the two versions of the bucktooth emoji in a seamless transition to create a gif that would become viral in its own right.
However, the massive popularity of the smiling bucktooth emoji did result in a lot of people complaining about how it was being overused. A few Twitter users claimed that the emoji was making them, "irrationally mad".
The Iconic vector graphic was created by vector graphic artist, Hafiza Samsuddin, or Captain Vector.
It was first uploaded way back on September 27, 2018, onto the Stock Unlimited website. The original name of the emoji was, "Happy and excited emoticon", a far cry from what it is now popularly used for.
