The saluting face emoji, that has lately surged in popularity, thanks largely to the mass layoffs and firings at Twitter is potentially the “emoji of the year.”

The New York Times notes that it’s spreading beyond Twitter to the tech world in general, where layoffs are currently rampant. Twitter employees began posting the emoji as their final sendoff to co-workers on the company’s Slack channels.

The chief of Emojipedia.com says the saluting emoji wasn’t used much until the last few weeks, and it has since become the fifth most clicked-upon emoji at the site.