Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

Be the first to comment. 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.

Good news! Unicode, the character-encoding standard behind Emoji, is making it even easier to avoid talking to your friends in real life. In a month, 250 new images will be headed to a phone near you.

Gen Z's interpretation of the smiley face emoji isn't new, although it's making headlines again. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a whole piece on it and included insight from Gen Z.

Unicode 16 emoji include face with bags under eyes, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter. Apple last introduced new emoji with the iOS 17.4 update that was ...

The ubiquitous smiley face. Emojis are in the news because a recent Tracker Research survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that 41% of respondents believe a message needs an emoji to be complete, ...