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 ...

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.

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 ...

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?

lets you select pick two emoji and have them combine into a new one. Smiley face plus pineapple equals smiling pineapple, crying face plus cat equals crying cat, you get the picture. As a tech ...