Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers ...

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter ...

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.

The evolution from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not etymologically). All emoticons are ...