U+1F479 · emoji since 2010
The ogre is a red faced Japanese demon called an oni, all fangs and fury. Online it stands for a monster, a bad guy, or pure rage.
People use it for spooky posts, fierce energy, and joking that someone is being a beast. Big scary mood in one face.
In texting, 👹 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 👹 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Ogre emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the ogre emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 👹 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.