The Tears of Joy meme centers around the 😂 emoji, officially known as 'Face with Tears of Joy.' First introduced to the Unicode Standard in 2010, it quickly became the most used emoji worldwide, even being named Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year in 2015. In meme culture, it represents extreme hilarity, ironic laughter, or reacting to something genuinely funny. While digital trends shift and younger generations sometimes use the skull emoji to represent 'dying' of laughter, this icon remains a cornerstone of online humor, used globally to signal uncontrollable amusement.