Every year, new emojis land on our keyboards—beans, bubbles, trolls—and Gen Z instantly makes them mean something more. The melting face 🫠, originally for physical heat or awkwardness, now signals ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

Can emojis actually improve your relationship? Yes! They increase perceived attentiveness, which builds closeness and ...

Emojis in text messages boost relationship satisfaction by making people feel emotionally heard and connected.

According to recent research, using these symbols makes individuals appear more emotionally involved, regardless of which ...

EMOJIS can improve your relationships as they make you seem more emotionally involved, scientists say. A study found people ...

Responding to the call, public transportation advocates rallied around the underappreciated emoji, spamming Twitter/X with strings of the aerial tramway. The plan worked. After 77 days, the tram ...

For the holdouts who believe emojis represent a spiraling-down from literacy to an online world of raw icons replacing well-chosen words, Wired magazine has the best retort.

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

The site sorts emoji into nine categories, including Smileys, People, Objects, Activity and more. Each category then breaks down emoji into further subsections.