Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

P C Gamer's staff recently had an intense debate about whether a solitary thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive or not.

"I think probably half of our Slack messages have emoji. It makes it more fun, it makes it friendlier." That coupled with the natural urge to put on a positive face when everyone sees your ...

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

Apple adds new emojis every year, yet somehow, the ones I actually want never make the cut. Thankfully, Genmoji lets me take matters into my own hands and create them myself, but after playing around ...

You can check out at any time. More info An Irish emoji expert has predicted the most-used ones for 2025 and says the laughing face is “the millennial go-to” and is being swapped for the skull ...

Apple has introduced a new set of emoji in the latest iOS 18.4 beta 2, giving iPhone users a preview of the latest characters ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

Using only actual words for communicating via text is no longer enough, particularly because current smartphones come lots of fun emoji that let us better express ourselves while messaging.

Argentina's flag climbed all the way into the top 20 as a result of Lionel Messi-led team winning FIFA World Cup 2022. Argentina's flag in top 20: Messi effect The Partying Face is in the top 10 ...