Facepalm
Facepalm ( english face = 'face' and English palm = palm ') is a term of Internet jargon . The meme describes the non-verbal gesture in which a hand covers parts of one's face , especially the eyes. As a reaction, the gesture expresses concern to another person, which results from an observed, situational, logical, judgmental or memory failure of the other.
The facepalm is supposed to express different feelings (bewilderment, shame , embarrassment , skepticism , frustration , disgust or unhappiness ), but above all anger and " foreign shame " about the "stupidity" or clumsiness of a person or act.
A comparable phrase in German is “ grab your head” or “grab your head” . This can be interpreted as “having no understanding of something”.
Internet culture
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The Facepalm became popular as a memetic internet phenomenon in 2007 in the form of an image of Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century on which he performs this gesture. It should be noted that the most frequently used scene excerpt in the context of the episode rather depicts deep dismay, resignation and sadness about the circumstances and not the foreign shame that the Internet meme is supposed to express. As is usual with Internet memes, additional images were quickly found or constructed that depict the gesture. In internet discussion, commentary, or other online posting, such images will be used in response to statements that are deemed ridiculous, false or stupid.
In forums and chats , the word is written between asterisks : * facepalm * ( inflective ) or as an emoticon with the character string m ( to express that the author is performing this gesture.
As of version 9.0, the Unicode standard contains the emoji ? under the code point U+1F926 with the name “Face Palm”.
Individual evidence
- ^ H. Ortner. (Un) Stable emotions (PDF; 266 kB), MiT7 unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition, May 13‐15, 2011, Boston. P. 19
- ^ Ray Vichot: “Doing it for the lulz?”: Online Communities of Practice and Offline Tactical Media ( English , pdf) May 2009. Accessed November 15, 2011.
- ^ Dudenredaktion (ed.): German universal dictionary. 7th edition. Dudenverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-411-05507-4 , p. 1041
- ↑ knowyourmeme.com: Facepalm (accessed December 27, 2011)
- ↑ Tom Chatfield: Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World , online in Googlebooks, accessed May 17, 2013
- ↑ ? Face Palm Emoji. In: Emojipedia . Retrieved March 27, 2017 (English).
