For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please"

Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way

edit. source: dude just trust me

I don't know if it's ironic or not but there is also a sudo replacement in Rust that is called "please"

https://gitlab.com/edneville/please

    $ apt-get install vim
    E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
    E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

    $ fuck
    sudo apt-get install vim
    [sudo] password for nvbn:
    Reading package lists... Done