This isn't the first emoji recap by Cara Rose DeFabio—she also did "Melroji Place" last year, though this one really intensifies our desire for emoji sigils. (Full disclosure: DeFabio is a ...

Gen Z canceled the ‘hostile’ thumbs-up emoji and wants to ban these 9 others By . Jack Hobbs and Alex Mitchell. Published Oct. 12, 2022. Updated Oct. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. ET.

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.