Thus the inward-pointing emoji combination represents introversion while the outward-facing ones represent extroversion. These emoji and their corresponding “shy memes” inspired people to start using the emoji pointed the opposite direction 👈👉to signify confidence. These videos also use feet with toes pointed towards each other to show a similar form of shyness. In March 2020, this meme became more widespread, appearing in viral tweets and in a TikTok trend called #ShyKids. This meme seems to reference anime characters who twiddle or touch their fingers together to demonstrate shyness. Online, this has come to represent someone who is shy, often in an exaggerated way.
The fingers touching emoji use two pointing finger emojis (pointing right 👉 and pointing left 👈) facing the opposite direction and are often paired with 🥺, the pleading face emoji.
