Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect ...

Gen Z reportedly thinks of the thumbs-up emoji as a symbol of passive aggression and hostility. Real meaning: “Sure! I’ll do it! Sounds good! Just stop asking me!” Meanwhile, when your dad ...

Woke Gen Z take offence at the thumbs up emoji because they see it as 'passive aggressive', etiquette expert reveals. Keith Broni, 32, the editor in chief of emojipedia and expert on all things emoji ...

YOU may find yourself often using emojis in your messages to add an extra meaning or add context. However, some emojis can be interpreted different and one of those is the thumbs-up emoji. What doe… ...

Thumbs-Up Emoji Meaning. An emoji etiquette expert named Keith Broni from Dublin, Ireland has explained that the Thumbs-up emoji could be taken out of context by younger generations, noting that ...

The thumbs-up may be relegated to the sidelines and replaced by more expressive symbols, but we don’t yet have the cyclical data of other cultural evolutions, such as language or fashion.

“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

Be careful how you emoji in the future, after a Canadian judge ruled that sending someone a "thumbs-up" symbol in a message can potentially enter you into a legally binding contract.

It appears nothing is immune to cancel culture, not even emojis. Now, Reddit users have targeted one of the most popular emojis, the thumbs-up symbol, as potentially “hostile.” A post from ...