Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...

First the thumbs up, now the smiley face. Young people have been urging everyone to stop using the ‘smiley’ emoji because it ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

The once-condemned laughing-crying emoji has had a resurgence as an ironic response. Prayer hands are rarely used in earnest, but instead with a nod and a wink. Gen Z also called out the popular ...

Other emojis disliked by Gen Z are the red heart emoji, the OK hand, the monkey covering eyes, clapping hands, the grimacing ...

TikTok has become the preferred stage for content creators highlighting the generational differences between boomers, ...

The “face with tears of joy” continued a six-year streak of being the most used emoji this past year, despite being deemed “uncool” by Gen Z users, according to the “State of Emoji ...

It's called "pinched fingers" and depending on where you are in the world, a new emoji announced by the Unicode Consortium, which approves standard emojis worldwide, could have a completely ...

There are various Reddit threads such as this one on which people, especially Gen Z users, find the thumbs-up emoji to be cold or even sarcastic. It makes sense when you think about it.

In addition to the side-eye, the other two most used emoji by Indian Gen Z were black heart and smile with blush face.