🤓☝️

Translingual

Alternative forms

• ☝🤓

Etymology

🤓 (“nerd emoji”) +‎ ☝ (“pointing upwards emoji”).

Arose around October 2022 among Latin American Twitter users in reference to an image macro.

Symbol

🤓☝️

1. Synonym of 🤓 (“used to suggest someone is overexplaining, a pedant or nerdy”).

Usage notes

Sometimes accompanied by the phrase "um actually" or a deliberate misspelling of "actually".

Related terms

• well actually

References

• “🤓☝”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007