A lot of thinking went into the design for the poop emoji. On iPhones, iPads, and Macs, the "poop" emoji looks like this: It's practically a cultural icon at this point. But on Windows, it looks ...

For instance, Chinese texters might use a smile emoji to suggest negative connotations like sarcasm, and thus be less likely to identify it as “happy” than those in Britain, the researchers said.

The “Face with Medical Mask” emoji, which was present in the emoji library before the COVID-19 pandemic, previously had a less-than-enthused expression, as it was created to symbolize sickness.