Sending a thumbs-up emoji may now be considered the agreement of a legally binding contract, a Canadian judge has ruled. The thumbs-up emoji proved pivotal in a case involving farmer Chris Achter ...

Yes, that one little emoji was recognized as a legal, binding agreement. In other words, the judge gave the man a thumbs-down for this thumb-up argument. Adobe The emoji exchange happened between ...

“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

So when Achter replied with a thumbs-up emoji, Mickleborough said he had understood that Achter “was agreeing to the contract” and that it had been “his way” of signaling that agreement.

Here, the court ruled that the emoji did signify agreement to the terms, similar to a written signature. It had been habitually used between the buyer and seller in a longstanding business ...