I tried with copilot and got this answer: Nope—there is no official seahorse emoji, and there never has been one. It’s one of those quirky cases of the Mandela Effect, where tons of people (and even some AI models!) are convinced they’ve seen or used it before. Some remember it being blue, orange, or facing a certain direction, but it’s all collective misremembering.

Interestingly, a seahorse emoji was proposed to Unicode but got rejected back in 2018. So if you’ve ever tried to send one and ended up with or instead… you’re not alone.

Would you like to see what a custom seahorse emoji might look like? I could help you imagine one.