A: Many desktop programs like iMessages and the Mac Twitter app include a convenient icon for switching to emoji symbols — those colorful pictographs of smiley faces, hearts and now bacon.

Emoji are the ideograms – smileys – used in electronic messages and on websites. You may know them more generally as ’emoticons’, but emoji are a specific subset of that phenomena.

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[Image: Apple] The top three most popular emoji are the joy smiley face emoji (conveys teary-eyed laughter), used a whopping 9.9% of the time; the red heart emoji, used 6.6% of the time; and the ...

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.