A SKULL immediately makes people think of death. However, when it comes to emojis there is always more to the story than meets the eye. What does the skull emoji mean? The main meaning of the skull… ...

The skull emoji, too, is already becoming overused. In the sentence I just wrote a Washington Post op-ed on Gen Z slang 💀, I’m not using the emoji to cue laughter, as I once might have.

Emoji are so popular they’re killing off netspeak. The more we use 😂 , the less we use LOL and OMG. In essence, we’re watching the birth of a new type of language.