Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day ...

The tired looking smiley is easily one of my favorite emoji of all time.

To mark World Emoji Day, the consortium that decides on new emojis has unveiled a selection of which ones will be formally ...

Emojis are integral to digital communication. This year, certain emojis gained prominence. The loudly crying face emoji shows mixed emotions. The face with tears of joy remains a classic. The fire ...

July 17 is observed as World Emoji Day, a global celebration of those tiny digital symbols that say so much with so little.

It’s a banner day to be an emoji. Monday marks the tenth annual World Emoji Day 🗺️🤩📆, and there’s never been a better time to be a cute and colorful little communication character. ...

Emoji have norms, and some have generally agreed-upon meanings. But many, too, are flexible and fluid. 💦 can refer to sweat, meth, or sex, according to a blog post from Goldman.

Gen Z canceled the ‘hostile’ thumbs-up emoji and wants to ban these 9 others By . Jack Hobbs and Alex Mitchell. Published Oct. 12, 2022. Updated Oct. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. ET.

The new candidates for Emoji 15.1, which could be approved later this year, include a fiery phoenix, a broken chain, and more. Alessio Liburdi / EyeEm / Getty Images ...

For years, emoji have been transforming from a sophisticated, powerful visual language capable of diverse expression into just a format for sending pictures that conform to the emoji visual style ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Animal emoji, especially, carry secondary connotations that can be positive or negative (think the butterfly as a symbol of beauty and freedom versus the cockroach as a symbol of “yuck”).