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.” ...

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all. However, if you've been ...

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.

Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes.. It’s one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which ...

The exhausted emoji face was named the “most anticipated” emoji in the recent World Emoji Awards, receiving more than 60% of the vote. The splatter came in second, and the shovel third.

It may not be a word by the strictest definition – but the emoji commonly known as “face with tears of joy” has been named the “Word” of the Year for 2015 by Oxford Dictionaries.

NEW YORK -- Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It's one of eight new emojis that will appear on smartphones and computers next year ...