What is he looking up at? Why does this moon have a face? Why is he so undeniably creepy? This moon could honestly mean anything you want it to. No one’s knows it’s purpose or why it’s included, but it can be randomly used to add a weird vibe to any text message. 💎 Perhaps one of the most iconic emojis is the popular pedo moon face, which is by this point a fixture in internet culture and language. What is the pedo moon face? I don't think anybody who moderately knows their way around a phone doesn't know what I'm referring to. He commonly goes by 'molester moon', 'creepy moon', 'dark moon face', or, according to his official name on emojipedia, 'New Moon Face'. There's something inexplicably weird about pedo moon's face, that's for sure, and it definitely hasn't escaped the internet's notice. We can't dissect the creepiness of pedo moon without looking into how he's used in texting. The nature of the language of the internet is that it relies a lot on a unspoken and hard-to-define common knowledge and understanding of memes, pop culture references, and humor. Take, for instance: You know that this image makes perfect sense to you, but can you explain why? I can't really, either, but I personally think that while it is futile to come up with a good consensus for what pedo moon stands for, he's most commonly used to inject innuendo or just a sense of weirdness in conversations. A: dude gillian asked if she could come over to watch monty python lmao What I did not know about pedo moon is that the Youtube channel Smosh made a video titled 'MOLESTER MOON' claiming that if you send the pedo moon emoij three times, the person you send it to will receive a text from the moon with three emojis explaining how he's going to kill them. And, of course, the moon is supposed to actually kill the person later at night. Anthony: Wait, what the frick is this ugly thing? This is obviously verifiable bullshit, as I have sent triple pedo moon emoji texts to multiple friends on multiple occasions, and all of them are still alive and well. The video was meant for fun, but most likely popularized the nickname of 'molester moon' for innocent ol' New Moon Face. What has he done wrong, anyway? I think the fault lies with the designers of the original and most iconic look of New Moon Face emoji. Maybe they were tripping, or maybe one of them had a horrible accident at birth or something. Either way, there's nothing to justify why pedo moon ended up, well, looking like pedo moon. Right now would be a good time to discuss a few close relatives to pedo moon - Lenny and Pedobear, the rough emoticon equivalents of pedo moon. Both have their own rich histories which are well explained by Know Your Meme here 💎 and here 💎 respectively, so I won't go into that. The more interesting thing to do here, of course, is to look at what the three bastions of internet-perversity-expression have in common. A similarity immediately stands out: the unnaturally wide-eyed expressions on all their faces. Humans are genetically programmed to fear things that are unnatural, unknown, or malevolent in nature, and boy, eyes that are disproportionately big on a face sure do tick off those boxes. Perhaps it's because such a face would look deformed, or perhaps it's because nobody normal really has a reason to widen their eyes to the extent of looking wrong. Pedo moon, Pedobear, and Lenny all have big eyes that are round in a way that human eyes aren't, which could contribute to the whole sinister creepiness that they exude. What's creepier than unnatural big round eyes? Unnatural big round eyes on a face that also sports a wide smile. Pedo moon especially has a very strange smile that looks taut and fake. We all know that a true smile reaches a person's eyes, making them crinkle in an adorable and endearing manner, but that smile ain't anywhere close to reaching pedo moon's. Lenny has a smile similar to pedo moon's, but Pedobear, being a bear, has a more cartoonish animal 'w' shaped smile. Pedo moon, being an emoji as opposed to an emoticon, has more dimension than Pedobear and Lenny. The shadows and contours on his face add to his uncanny humanness, which leads to another possible reason for why pedo moon looks unnatural: despite having the characteristic roundness of a moon, he lacks the craters and spots that make a moon look like a moon. What we're left with is basically a dark round face with distorted human features - decidedly not cute, or whatever the designers were going for assuming it was with good intentions. To make things worse, he doesn't have visible eyebrows to add character to his face; in fact, there's no indication that there's any hair at all on the bastard's smooth skin, a fact that is not only unrealistic on a human, but also plain gross. Plainly put, pedo moon is an ungodly hybrid of the image of a moon and the facial features of a human, without being similar enough to either to look more natural. He's stuck in the emoji equivalent of the uncanny valley, which is the concept that suggests humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny, or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. The neither-here-nor-there-ness of pedo moon makes him unholy and wrong looking to most of us, and that's how he earned his reputation. Sadly enough, the iconic pedo moon face is a thing of the past, after updates to most texting platforms' emoji designs. Perhaps learning from the error of their ways, some designers have presented us with cute moon emojis that are positively benign. There are still others that carry on original pedo moon's legacy, though they don't really seem to quite reach the sweet spot of weirdness that popularized pedo moon. Then, of course, as a PSA to those out there unaware of its existence, there's whatever the fuck this is. You're welcome. 🐝- Caveat for those who are wondering why I call pedo moon pedo moon instead of molester moon: pedo moon has a more fluid name on the internet, but all of his titles convey a sense of creepiness. Unlike Pedobear, pedo moon doesn't really have a history to explain the 'pedo' title, and here I call him pedo moon simply because I think it's funnier and contributes to the tone of this post. Pedophilia is a serious matter, of course, and I understand fully that a) sexual crimes against children are abhorrent and awful and absolutely unjustifiable, and b) pedophilia, like any other psychiatric disorder, isn't something that anyone can control having. Regardless of whether the association of creepiness to pedophilia is right or wrong, it is undeniable that pedophilic acts are associated with creepiness, which can explain why molester moon is also known as pedo moon. Read more about the uncanny valley here 💎 See all current New Moon Face emoji designs here 💎
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