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.

Gen Z's interpretation of the smiley face emoji isn't new, although it's making headlines again. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a whole piece on it and included insight from Gen Z.

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 ...

Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the “likable” smiley face spectrum were the heart-blowing emoji (No. 1), the heart-encircled smiley (No. 2) and the heart-eyed countenance (No. 3), per the ...

The ubiquitous emoji means happy, good job or any number of other positive sentiments to most people over about age 30. But for many teens and 20-somethings, a smiley face popping up in a text or ...

Apple is adding new emoji as part of its iOS 14.5 update, including several new smiley faces and hearts, more skin tone options for popular emoji, and redesigns to the syringe and headphone emoji.

Unicode 16 emoji include face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter. Apple last introduced new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that was ...

Illustrating the power of emoji 06:14. An emoji that speaks for the tired masses is coming to little screens soon. One of eight new emoji set to debut late this year and into the next, an ...