A new Netflix mini-series, "Adolescence," has people talking. The show’s creators want parents to know teenage boys are in a crisis.

Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that regulates the coding standards for written computer text including emojis, will soon be deciding what new emoji characters will be added to the library in 2025.

But despite their prevalence, people are only just realising what one popular character really means. The emoji in question ...

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