“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

Unicode proposed nine new emoji in November, 2024, including a Sasquatch and an orca, and those emoji will debut as part of Unicode 17.0 this September. Here are all the new emoji you will see on ...

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. “Emoji use may be related to ...

Reports of the death of the thumbs-up emoji have been greatly exaggerated. Or maybe not. In any case, let's consider how emojis, like words, can be interpreted in many different ways.

Emoji can be fun to use when texting friends and family, but you can only send so many laughing crying emoji before that emoji seems a little stale. If you're getting bored with the current emoji ...