Another wrote, "The black heart emoji is finally a thing!!" It's no secret that there are some interesting meanings behind the water droplet emoji, the eggplant, and the peach. But the skull emoji ...

Opt instead for a blue skull, shifty eyes or a cowboy hat emoji if you want to show ... ancient hieroglyphic from the MSN and Bebo days. A black, or white, heart emoji is much more trendy.

For many Gen Z-ers, the skull ... meanings to emoji, which then spreads to others in their cohort, often through social media. For example, the emoji of a person wearing a cowboy hat () and ...

Tyler Schnoebelen has discovered something curious about why people use the skull emoji. Schnoebelen is a linguist and the chief analyst for Idibon, a firm that interprets linguistic data.

You might be quick to think of the dead flower or the skull emoji ... easy because the emoji already exists; they just need to add better colors than a basic red shade. Black would definitely ...

Mr. Broni pointed out how both the skull emoji and the chair emoji have been used to connote laughter. (The skull emoji means, “I’m dead,” while the chair emoji was a TikTok in-joke.) ...

"In the 1990s, older generations didn't connect with slang like 'Da Bomb,' and now the skull emoji means funny to GenZ while the crying laughing face means funny to Millennials," York added.