Perhaps the closest match to Apple’s facepalm emoji is the accompaniment of a healthy “SMH” (shaking my head, for rubes not in the know). This shorthand phrase emerged in the early 2010s and ...

Facepalm: a popular online expression referring ... they do this all the time” This fight had me shaking my head in disgust well before the cage door closed. Originally intended to be a ...

The new “facepalm edition” figure features a suit-clad Fauci covering his face with his hand, with his eyes closed, immortalizing a now-viral moment from a March 20 coronavirus task force ...

And it says it stands for SHAKING MY HEAD. Where did SMH come from? No one knows for sure; it just kind of appeared and became popular during the mid-to-late 2000s (kind of like Justin Bieber). SMH ...