TikToker @strawberrymilkmob called out Gen Z’s newest selfie pose after the generation ditched the duck face. @strawberrymilkmob “It literally is,” @CELLYY.9 agreed.

The world has continued its love affair with “face with tears of joy,” a crass, blunt instrument of an emoji. That’s according to data released by the Unicode Consortium.

Throughout the 2010s, the “duck face” was a go-to pose for Millennials. It’s where you make an exaggerated kissy face for photos and selfies. More often than not, a peace sign was included ...

The laughing crying emoji might be coming back into vogue. According to an Emojipedia analysis of over 2.16 billion tweets, the face with tears of joy emoji has returned to its spot as Twitter's ...

The "relieved face" falls into my second category of emoji: sincere emoji I use sarcastically. Other emoji that fall into that category are , 珞, , , and my personal favorite, .

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.

Illustrating the power of emoji 06:14. An emoji that speaks for the tired masses is coming to little screens soon. One of eight new emoji set to debut late this year and into the next, an ...

In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere. As laid-off designer Audrey Davis observed, she never thought the saluting face would make her “sob.” ...

That’s where the melting face emoji comes in. The face, fixed with a content half-smile even as it dissolves into a puddle, is one of 37 new emojis approved this year by the Unicode Consortium, ...