Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and ...

Generations often have differing perspectives on what something means. In this case, the Thumbs Up emoji is popular among older generations but is viewed as “passive-aggressive” by younger ...

YouTube still offers the thumbs-up emoji for likes, but the distinction there is that it’s opposed to a “dislike” button, represented by the thumbs-down emoji.

I Will Not Thumbs-Up Your Email. Emoji, ... (“Don’t want to have to create an entire email reply just to send a thumbs up?” Microsoft asked when its emoji feature rolled out at the end of 2022.

On Oct. 12, the Daily Mail tweeted "Why NOBODY should be using the 'thumbs up' emoji in 2022" with a link to their story on the matter, and similar strong opinions to the Reddit thread were released.