Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective, depending on a message's context and wider cultural trends. Which shaking smiley face should you use? Is there a difference between each ...

Bowen Yang is setting the record straight. Yang responded to Best, writing, “Didn’t do any of this but I wrote the sketch you were a background actor in,” adding a smiley face emoji. In October last ...

A December 31 lawsuit against The New York Times by Baldoni, his business partners, and his publicists claimed that the Times' omission of an upside-down smiley face emoji in a quote it published ...