A "😃" or " ️" are easy to understand, but how are "😩" and "😭" different? Over time, emoji meanings have become subjective ...

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.

Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto ... as a language, emoji combinations are largely subject to interpretation. What do you mean broccoli-broccoli-crying face?

But who came up with the Smiley? According to the digital keyboard firm Swiftkey, the most used emoji of 2016 in the UK was the one of a face crying with laughter, second was a face blowing a kiss ...