QUICK ANSWER. The upside-down smile emoji is a light-hearted, humorous icon that can add more fun to a conversation or take the edge off more difficult conversations.

The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons.

In his lawsuit against The New York Times, Baldoni says the paper failed to include an upside-down smiling emoji — used to convey sarcasm or silliness — in a quote, adding that effectively ...

The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used emoticons.