Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji include a face with bags under its eyes and a splatter. The Unicode ...

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.

Face with sunglasses emoji: ... Smiling face emoji: A second "best friend" that the user send snaps to often. Fire emoji: This symbolizes a Snap streak with another user.

The most popular are the most obvious: smiley faces, sad faces and that one that looks a little bit like chocolate ice cream. But social media experts say parents need to peer past the perceived ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

To make things more interesting, some emails contained smiley face emoji while others didn’t. ... ‘World’s first’ autofocus glasses could spell the end of reading specs. 2.