Every year, new emojis land on our keyboards—beans, bubbles, trolls—and Gen Z instantly makes them mean something more. The melting face 🫠, originally for physical heat or awkwardness, now signals ...

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.

Tap into your emoji keyboard, which is the smiley in the bottom left corner. 3. In the search bar, type the emoji you want to create, like "raven on a book." 4. Tap Create New Emoji.

The judge pointed to a Dictionary.com definition of the thumbs-up emoji, which said it is used to express assent, approval or encouragement in digital communications.