Happy World Emoji Day! This Emoji Day, let’s take a look at the most-used emojis of 2025. Are you one of their regular users?

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 ...

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive, or ...

The evolution from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not etymologically). All emoticons are ...