The emoji research didn’t study this affect of our ego misinterpreting smiling faces, but researchers do note the ways communication can be internalized. Advertisement ...

The other night I responded to a friend on Twitter who wrote that he thinks entire books will be written in emoji in the not-so-distant future. It’s such a sad thought. I value reading those ...

They do this by creating a unique font that will read the letter-based emoji code that Unicode provides and translate it into pictures – similar to how you can change fonts in Microsoft Word.

“For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year-old Redditor wrote. “It’s super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up,” they added.

If you spend all day on Slack like I do, you know how fast and easy it is to add emojis. Type a colon (:) followed immediately by a search term, and a little pop-up emoji picker shows relevant emojis.

You can also submit a request for an emoji to the Consortium too if you really, really wish that there was a unicorn with a donut on its horn or a cannabis leaf emoji.

Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen, on the other hand, is more like a tribute to a human sense of humor. Every combination is created by hand, meaning there is a fixed (but growing) number of recipes to make.

If you spend all day on Slack like I do, you know how fast and easy it is to add emojis. Type a colon (:) followed immediately by a search term, and a little pop-up emoji picker shows relevant emojis.