Instagram engineers have analysed the emoji-use of its users to find the meaning behind each colourful heart. It found that different colours are associated with a variety of topics and moods.

Even so, overall, the black heart emoji is still used to symbolize love and affection for many, even if some users add it to a dark post on Instagram, TikTok, or X (formerly Twitter).

The blue heart emoji is most used to imply platonic relations without a sender having to spell out that there just isn’t any romantic interest. Yellow. 12.

In my emoji pillow collection, I have a pillow that’s a panda, one that has sunglasses on that makes it cool, one that’s laughing so hard it’s crying, one that has red heart eyes and one ...

New research shows that adding those tiny digital images to your texts can make you look more attentive and caring. In a ...

Pity the poor smiley face. It once was the go-to symbol to convey e-emotion. Cyberspace was its oyster. It reigned supreme. But today's mobile app era has become something of an emoji-eat-emoji world.

Unicode has approved 217 new emoji for implementation in 2021, assembled here by Emojipedia. There are three new smiley faces, two new hearts, and two new bearded people icons.

The white heart became an emoji in 2019. It is supported on all updated systems such as WhatsApp, Apple, Google, Samsung, Twitter and other social media platforms.

Says Erin, events manager, "I think you need to establish that you can speak IRL" before using emoji like hearts, winking faces or romantic smilies. Similarly to the so-called sexual emoji listed ...