Emojion💥 collision
Meaning
A cartoon explosion borrowed from comic-book impact effects, used for literal crashes, emotional outbursts, shocking news, and anything that hits hard. Works alongside 🔥 to signal that something is wild or impressive.
Keywords: bomb, boom, collide, comic, explode
How it's used around the world
JapanClosely tied to manga onomatopoeia like 'don' and 'bon,' so it often reads as a storytelling impact cue — like punctuating a chat with a manga panel.
💡 Did you know?
The design is said to trace back to cartoonist Roy Crane's 1920s impact bursts ('BAM,' 'POW'), through Lichtenstein's 'Whaam!' (1963) and Batman's TV fight cards, then into Japanese carrier emoji sets in the late 1990s, before Unicode 6.0 standardized it in 2010.
💡 Did you know?
💥 can mean both 'it was absolutely fire' and 'it was a total disaster,' making it one of the trickiest emojis to read without extra context.
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