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 ...

But he still predicts old favourites such as the smiling face, crying laughing and ... that come up to me going ‘I didn’t know about the skull emoji being laughter’.