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.

Look, I’m no emoji expert, but there’s one thing I do know: The basic smiley emoji is a goddamn liar. And using it makes you a liar, too. I first noticed ...

Every July 17, the internet comes together and celebrates World Emoji Day. The date was chosen because it's displayed on the 📅 calendar emoji, but it's a day to appreciate all emoji, even the more ...

To make things more interesting, some emails contained smiley face emoji while others didn’t. The outcome revealed that, contrary to smiling in person, the smiley emoticons had no effect on ...

You may have been sending the smiley face emoji wrong, warn experts. For younger generations, this smile actually symbolises an insincere smile and can be seen as passive-aggressive ...

Now the consortium has given developers the first Emoji 11 beta, which contains 130 draft emojis, including a female superhero, a lobster and a party face. There's no trace of the sad poo and that ...

So if you click into Smileys, for example, you'll see sections like Smiling & Affectionate and Sleepy & Unwell. If you click an individual emoji, Emojipedia will give you a brief description of ...

We revealed in December that many Samsung handsets automatically convert text messages to pricier picture messages. It can happen when someone inserts a pictographic emoji 🙂, but sometimes plain text ...

Your brain only sees some of these as faces. Dave Matos. When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley face has become ubiquitous online, and psychologists ...

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 ...