When I imagined life with teenagers, I seriously underestimated how much time I’d spend just trying to decode what they were saying (cracked? Sigma? Crash out?) and their cryptic emoji use (what does ...

While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret sinister meanings.

After watching Adolescence, I asked him to explain the skulls and smiley faces which him and other young people use ...

A horse emoji may refer to Ketamine, while several emojis are linked to MDMA, including an alien, a demon mask, a space invader, and a skull and crossbones. Cocaine is often represented by various ...

💥 = In the show it is used next to the pill emoji to indicate the pent-up sexual frustration of 'incels' - involuntarily celibate people who believe they cannot find a sexual partner.

Police and experts are warning parents to be vigilant about the emoji on their children's phones, following Netflix 's thriling drama Adolescence.