An emoji can say more than he imagines. The series that has captivated thousands around the world has exposed that, behind each symbol, a hidden message that adolescents shut up can hide and that the adult world fails to decipher.
Through an intense narrative, Adolescence It becomes an uncomfortable mirror that exposes the emotional fragility of a generation marked by bullying, social pressure and the silent impact of networks.
The miniseries enters the minds of Jamie Miller, a 13 -year -old teenager trapped between the pain of abandonment and the hostility of her school environment. Considered as the main suspect of the murder of a partner, Jamie embodies the reflection of a youth injured by invisible traumas.
With hidden messages, Like the emoji of the sandwich that the psychologist gives Jamiethis production is deciphering the universe of adolescents who communicate through digital codes and reveals the effects that this has on their mental health. The color of a heart or the emoji of an emotion can express more than expected.
Here we explain the true meaning of the symbols that appear in the series Adolescence.
Adolescence series emojis code
The revelation of the hidden code occurs in the second episode, when Inspector Luke Bascombe tries to understand Jamie’s environment. It is his son Adam who warns him that he has misunderstood the messages that Katie left on Instagram. What seemed flirting, was actually a chain of insults disguised as emojis.
“It seems that she is being kind, right?” Adam says, before revealing the true meaning after the symbols.
Red pill
At first glance, this emoji may seem harmless, but Adam reveals that in some internet spaces it has a hidden and worrying meaning. Using it is like saying “I see the truth”, a phrase that is often used by groups that promote sexist ideas and are against feminism.
This symbol comes from Matrixwhere taking the red pill means “waking” to reality. However, in networks and forums, some use it to justify hate attitudes towards women and to exalt toxic masculinity as if it were superior.
When someone publishes this emoji with that sense, he is saying that he “woke up” and no longer believes in equality, but follows an ideology known as the “manosphere”, which diffuses dangerous and discriminatory ideas.
Dynamite emojis
In the plot, Adam shows his father how Katie’s message, where he used a dynamite emoji, is actually a mockery, because he refers to a violent act. By mixing both symbols – the red pill and dynamite – alludes to an “explosive red pill”, insinuating that this person belongs to the culture INCEL.
The term INCEL It refers to a group of men who define themselves as “involuntary celibates”, who have adopted a speech for hate and rejection of women, even reaching misogyny and be part of the “manosphere.”
Katie’s joke towards Jamie alluded to the adolescent was celibate by women’s decision, since they did not consider him attractive.
Emoji 100
Within the film the famous Emoji 100 is used to explain a rule promoted by the Manosphere community, according to Adam.
100 is a call to the “80/20 rule.” This theory argues that 80 % of women are attracted to 20 % of men. According to this logic, women control the love life of men, since they only prefer a reduced percentage of them, pushing the rest to become INCELS or involuntary cells.
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Hearts
In the plot, Adam explains that heart emojis also have a hidden meaning, which is not always related to love or love.
- The purple heart is interpreted as sexual desire.
- Yellow represents mutual interest.
- The pink indicates emotional attraction, but without sexual intention.
Other emojis with worrying meanings
With each generation, nonverbal languages based on visual elements are transformed and universalized. To help them understand them, the For Working Parents Educational Foundation created a “Periodic Table of Sinister Emojis”, a guide that seeks to guide parents and relatives about the hidden use of some digital symbols.
According to the ABC Family portal, combinations such as the gesture of “OK” next to one hand can be associated with extreme right ideologies, while hedgehog emoji is used in neo -Nazis contexts.
Other examples indicated are:
- Ghost Emoji, which can represent antimujere ideas
- The devil, linked to lust
- Scissors, which can refer to self -harm
- The horse, used to refer to ketamine, a hallucinogenic drug
In addition, the table details that:
- Eyejis of eyes can be interpreted as a request for intimate images
- Ball 8 can refer to the “kitchen” (drug laboratory)
- The snowflake, the snowman, the red globe, the snake, the caramel and again the horse can refer to the consumption of illegal substances