An Irish emoji expert has predicted the most-used ones for 2025 and says the laughing face is “the millennial go-to” and is being swapped for the skull emoji by Gen-Z. Dubliner Keith Broni, 35 ...

If you asked someone to name the most mid emoji, they’d probably mention the cry-laughing emoji (or the “face with tears of joy”, as it’s officially called). Long the reserve of ageing ...

I also told them how the thumbs up emoji is often interpreted as passive aggressive, and that the only time I’d use the laughing-crying (“face with tears of joy”) emoji is under duress. Despite ...

Emojis are integral to digital communication. This year, certain emojis gained prominence. The loudly crying face emoji shows mixed emotions. The face with tears of joy remains a classic. The fire ...

Emoji-fying your children is a way to provide an insight into what you and your (doubtless very cute) family are up to, without plastering their features all over the internet in perpetuity.

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which also ...

The world can’t stop laughing — or at least over text. The crying-laughing face is the world’s most popular emoji, researchers at the University of Michigan and Peking University determined in a joint ...