Official names tell one story. Real usage tells another. Here are the emojis most often misread, plus what people actually ...

When I imagined life with teenagers, I seriously underestimated how much time I’d spend just trying to decode what they were saying (cracked? Sigma? Crash out?) and their cryptic emoji use (what does ...

Last night my 21-year-old daughter, who goes to college in another state, texted me a skull 💀 emoji followed by a crying emoji 😭. It was a strange response to a photo I sent earlier that day. (For ...

Fairfield University Professor Rajasree Rajamma studies how emojis impact consumer understanding and brand communication, focusing on how misinterpretation leads to confusion.