To that end, news outlets are reporting that Gen Z finds the thumbs-up emoji passive-aggressive and ... the face with streaming tears, the laugh-cry and more. Of course, Gen Z is not a committee ...

So you may have heard the thumbs-up emoji is dead, as in not cool - don't do it ... and she thinks the crying laughing emoji is weak. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: I don't know. It doesn't feel as ...

Once upon a Y2K, millennials were the masters of cool when it came to netspeak ... from too many caps to an overreliance on the laugh-cry emoji, a behavior Gen Z derides as wholly cringe.

Overuse is a common theme to other emoji and acronyms now considered to be past their sell-by date, reports Becextech, which commissioned the study. Here’s the rest of the top 10 least cool ...

Some people also use the cry emoji to show joy when they find something cute. When seeing something that makes your jaw drop the surprised emoji comes in handy. It depicts a peach face with wide ...