Generations often have differing perspectives on what something means. In this case, the Thumbs Up emoji is popular among older generations but is viewed as “passive-aggressive” by younger ...

Thumbs Up Crying Cat depicts a cat with tears in its eyes doing a thumbs up and is used as a reaction meme depicting resigned acceptance. It went on from there to be used on Reddit, where it was ...

Buckle up — cancel culture has officially come for emojis. Gen Zers are calling out the popular thumbs-up emoji for being “rude” and “hostile,” even saying they feel attacked whenever ...

Not everyone shares the Gen Z perspective. Many users defended the thumbs-up emoji as a practical and efficient way to acknowledge a message without overthinking it. One user argued, “It’s ...

Far worse, the thumbs up is seen as actively hostile – a passive-aggressive dig deemed “unsettling”. I know, I know: millennials are hardly innocent in the communication wars. A decade ago ...

I’ve never really been a fan of the thumbs-up emoji, largely because it has historically been associated with dads, and as a young man hurtling into his thirties with an escalating appetite for ...

Gen Z seems on a mission to cancel, change and question pretty much everything we’ve all been doing for years — and the humble thumbs up emoji is next up on the chopping block. An OG emoji ...

The actress, 50, shared on the Variety and Entertainment Tonight red carpet pre-show for the 82nd Golden Globes that her 14-year-old daughter, Aviana Olea Le Gallo, gave her a "thumbs up" for her ...