Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against The New York Times could hinge on an emoji. Julia Pugachevsky. Updated Wed, January 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM UTC. 4 min read.

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.

Justin Baldoni is suing The New York Times for its story about Blake Lively's complaint against him.; He alleges the paper took his publicists' quotes out of context and omitted an emoji.