🗑️🔥

English

Etymology

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

🗑️🔥

  1. (Internet slang, now generally uncommon) Trash fire, dumpster fire (a chaotic, unpleasant, unmanageable thing, situation, or person).
    • 2016 July 20, itscryspybetch, Twitter‎[3]:
      What an awkward situation for NATO members. This looks like a 🗑️🔥
    • 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

  1. ^ “🗑️ Wastebasket emoji”, in Emojipedia‎[1], n.d.: “Sometimes paired with 🔥 Fire as a visual representation of the slang expression dumpster fire ("chatoic situation").”
  2. ^ “"Dumpster fire" is 2016 American Dialect Society word of the year”, in American Dialect Society‎[2], 6 January 2017: “On Twitter and other social media, the “trashcan” and “fire” emoji were combined to provide a visual representation: 🗑🔥.”.
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