{"id":2480,"date":"2025-07-15T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/2480\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:38:05","slug":"social-media-users-are-convinced-a-popular-emoji-has-disappeared-so-do-you-remember-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/2480\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media users are CONVINCED a popular emoji has disappeared – so, do you remember it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the humble thumbs up to a grinning cowboy, there is now an emoji for almost every situation.<\/p>\n

But social media users are convinced that one of their favourite icons has disappeared.<\/p>\n

In a viral video on TikTok<\/a>, one user wrote<\/a>: ‘Please tell me somebody remembers the emoji of a girl wearing her hair in a towel and she has cucumbers over her eyes like she is at the spa!<\/p>\n

‘I cannot find it and now I’m realizing it doesn’t exist but I remember it so vividly, is this just me?’<\/p>\n

This confused social media user was not alone as commenters flocked to share their support.<\/p>\n

One wrote: ‘I was just looking for her the other day! She absolutely existed!!’<\/p>\n

While another chimed in: ‘She 1,000% existed. How did we not realize she\u2019s gone?!’<\/p>\n

So, do you remember this missing emoji?<\/p>\n

\"Social <\/p>\n

Social media users are convinced that an emoji featuring a woman wearing a towel with cucumbers over her eyes has vanished from their phones. So, do you remember it?<\/p>\n

\"Some <\/p>\n

Some existing emoji are similar to the description of the ‘missing emoji’. The ‘Woman in Steamy Room’ emoji on iOS features a woman wearing a towel on her head but with no cucumbers on her eyes<\/p>\n

All 3,782 official emoji are published by the Unicode Consortium, the body responsible for deciding the standard set of emoji.<\/a><\/p>\n

While some existing emoji have some of the spa emoji’s characteristics, there has never been an official emoji matching this description.<\/p>\n

Even taking into account how emoji can vary across different devices, there is no record of an emoji featuring a woman wearing a towel with cucumbers over her eyes.<\/p>\n

The ‘Woman in Steamy Room’ emoji on iOS features a woman wearing a towel on her head but with no cucumbers on her eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Likewise, the ‘Person Getting Massage’ emoji is similar but misses a few key details.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, that hasn’t stopped many social media users from being absolutely convinced this emoji exists.<\/p>\n

On TikTok, a number of commenters even claimed to remember extremely specific and consistent details about the icon.<\/p>\n

One commenter wrote: ‘Yes and she was wearing a pink robe and teal towel on her head.’<\/p>\n

\"Despite <\/p>\n

Despite no evidence that this emoji existed, commenters were convinced that they remembered using it<\/p>\n

\"Some <\/p>\n

Some commenters even had very specific memories about the emoji, such as the colour of the towel and robe\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another added: ‘It was a light pink towel and a light green mask.’<\/p>\n

While another agreed: ‘Yeah she had the blue clay mask on.’<\/p>\n

Other commenters felt like they had extremely specific memories of using the emoji.<\/p>\n

One social media user wrote: ‘Yessssss\u2026 I am an esthetician and REMEMBER USING THIS EMOJI.’<\/p>\n

‘It existed bc I used it all the time and now the regular steam towel lady doesn\u2019t convey the same message,’ added another.<\/p>\n

This emoji could be an example of the so-called Mandela Effect <\/a>– a phenomenon where a group of people believe something occurred when it did not.<\/p>\n

The effect is named after the false but widespread belief that Nelson Mandela died in prison during the 1980s, when in reality he died at home in 2013.<\/p>\n

Psychologists say that this is a form of collective false memory caused by the way our brains tend to mix up information from the past.<\/p>\n

\"Earlier <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, social media users were convinced they remembered a ‘robber emoji’. The search for this missing emoji sparked speculation that it might have originated from the Bitlife life-simulation game. However, no evidence for this theory has been found\u00a0<\/p>\n

If someone remembers seeing a vaguely similar image and then is told that this spa emoji exists, their mind will fill in the gaps and create a false memory of seeing it.<\/p>\n

Since our memories aren’t great for small details, something like whether an emoji has cucumbers over their eyes can easily be misremembered.<\/p>\n

Some users were quick to suggest their own theories as to how these memories might have arisen.<\/p>\n

Proposed sources of the false memory included a cartoon icon from the TV show Lizzie McGuire or the cover of the children’s book series ‘American Girl’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most popular suggestion is that this was an icon from the life simulator game Bitlife, which was advertised widely across social media.<\/p>\n

This game features a number of emoji-like icons, which could be mistaken for an official iOS or Android emoji.<\/p>\n

Previously, social media users became convinced that Bitlife was the source of another popular ‘missing emoji’.<\/p>\n

TikTok users were certain that they remembered an emoji showing a woman dressed as a robber with a black and white striped shirt.<\/p>\n

\"One <\/p>\n

One TikTok user purchased an original first-generation iPad to search for the robber emoji, but could not find any evidence that it existed\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Just <\/p>\n

Just like the robber emoji, there is currently no evidence that the ‘spa’ emoji ever existed. This could be an example of the Mandela Effect, a phenomenon where a group of people believe something occurred when it did not<\/p>\n

In one TikTok video, a user even went through a first-generation iPad to see if it was an older emoji that had since been deleted.<\/p>\n

Since the robber emoji could not be found anywhere, it was widely circulated that Bitlife was the origin of the elusive ‘robber emoji’.<\/p>\n

However, there was never any evidence to show that the robber icon or emoji was part of the Bitlife game.<\/p>\n

Likewise, while there is a ‘spa’ activity in Bitlife, there is no icon associated with it that could be the source of any confusion.<\/p>\n

ARE EMOJIS RUINING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n

Emojis may be a fun form of communication but they are destroying the English language, a recent study by Google has revealed.<\/p>\n

Smiley faces, love hearts, thumbs up and other cartoon icons – rather than words – are the preferred method of communication by teenagers, who are considered the worst offenders regarding the decline in grammar and punctuation.<\/p>\n

More than a third of British adults believe emojis are the reason for the deterioration in proper language usage, according to the study commissioned by the Google-owned site YouTube.<\/p>\n

\"Emoji <\/p>\n

Emojis were first used by Japanese mobile phone companies in the late 1990s to express an emotion, concept or message in a simple, graphic way. Now, Twitter feeds, text messages and Facebook posts are crammed with them<\/p>\n

Of the two thousand adults, aged 16 to 65, who were asked their views, 94 per cent reckoned English was in a state of decline, with 80 per cent citing youngsters as the worst offenders.<\/p>\n

The most common errors made by Brits are spelling mistakes (21 per cent), followed closely by apostrophe placement (16 per cent) and the misuse of a comma (16 per cent).<\/p>\n

More than half of British adults are not confident with their command of spelling and grammar, the study also found.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, around three-quarters of adults rely on emoji to communicate, in addition to a dependence on predictive text and spell checking.<\/p>\n

The use of emojis has seeped into our culture to such an extent that the Oxford Dictionary’s ‘Word of the Year’ in 2015 wasn’t actually a word at all – it was the Face With Tears emoji, which shows just how influential the little graphic images have become.<\/p>\n

They were first used by Japanese mobile phone companies in the late 1990s to express an emotion, concept or message in a simple, graphic way.<\/p>\n