Traffic-Induced Existential Despair

Traffic-Induced Existential Despair
UN Issues New Emoji for “Traffic-Induced Existential Despair”

In a rare act of cross-cultural empathy, the United Nations today announced the official launch of a new emoji: 😵‍💫🚗💥🌀, dubbed “Traffic-Induced Existential Despair.”


The emoji is intended to reflect the emotional reality of urban residents worldwide stuck in vehicles, contemplating the meaning of life while inhaling fumes and listening to radio ads for toothpaste.


Iranian drivers immediately identified with it. “This is me. This is my soul,” said one man waiting for fuel in a line so long it had time zones.


The emoji is already trending in Tehran, Cairo, Lagos, and Los Angeles. Iranian Twitter users have added it to posts like: “Stuck in traffic for 4 hours, saw my life replay like a soap opera,” and “Found inner peace somewhere between 3rd gear and hallucinating from gas fumes.”


UN spokesperson Maria Del Sol explained, “We wanted to create an emoji that says, ‘I am motionless, yet emotionally unraveling.’”


An alternate version features a car on fire, a goat in the passenger seat, and a tear rolling down the driver’s cheek, but that was deemed “too real.”


Apple and Android have both agreed to roll out the emoji globally, though Samsung has reportedly changed it to a bowl of soup for unknown reasons.


Iranian officials called it “an unnecessary Western overreaction,” while simultaneously adopting it in 14 ministry group chats.


Meanwhile, the emoji is now also printed on Tehran parking tickets — ironically, because you had to move to get one.


SOURCE: IRAN: Tehran Evacuation

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