- bio usage
- Used by dark-skinned users with gothic, dark academia, or vampire aesthetic accounts as identity marker. Often paired with moon, coffin, or bat emojis.
- story usage
- Appears in Halloween stories, late-night mood posts, and dark romance book recommendations. Used in polls like 'vampire or werewolf?'
- aesthetic usage
- Core emoji for Afro-goth aesthetic accounts, dark fantasy moodboards, and melanin-positive gothic content.