🗑️🔥
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A visual pun from the combination of two emoji, 🗑️ (“trash, dumpster”) + 🔥 (“fire”).[1] Popularised during the 2016 United States presidential election alongside the phrase dumpster fire.[2]
Symbol
[edit]🗑️🔥
- (Internet slang, now generally uncommon) Trash fire, dumpster fire (a chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person).
- 2016 December 19, themicknartin, Twitter[4]:
- The 49ers run defense this year is by far the worst run defense I've ever seen in my life. It's a straight 🗑️🔥
- 2017 September 29, thatguyj3r, Twitter[5]:
- Tough when Trump didn't even know Puerto Ricans are American citizens. 🗑️🔥
- 2018 July 18, CopThese, Twitter[6]:
- LOL, could you imagine being in the state stuck with Riverside, Fresno AND Bakersfield. What are we gonna call it "Methland"? 🗑️🔥
- 2020 March 2, boxesofdoom, Twitter[7]:
- "my entire life is one enormous dumpster fire"🗑️🔥 same, mariah
- 2022 May 22, SeanNoonan, Twitter[8]:
- And uhhh nobody needs to play Gun Survivor 2 anyway. 🗑️🔥
References
[edit]- ^ “🗑️ Wastebasket emoji”, in Emojipedia[1], n.d.: “Sometimes paired with 🔥 Fire as a visual representation of the slang expression dumpster fire ("chatoic situation").”
- ^ “"Dumpster fire" is 2016 American Dialect Society word of the year”, in American Dialect Society[2], 2017 January 6: “On Twitter and other social media, the “trashcan” and “fire” emoji were combined to provide a visual representation: 🗑🔥.”.