Happy World Emoji Day! This Emoji Day, let’s take a look at the most-used emojis of 2025. Are you one of their regular users? Let’s find out.

“The upside down smiley face one is definitely confusing because that could mean anything,” said St. Francis College student Sabrina Tayeh, 18, of Brooklyn Heights.

From a simple thumbs up to a laughing cowboy, there is an emoji for almost any conceivable moment. But it is the humble smiley face which is the most iconic of them all.

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

Be the first to comment. 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.

Gen Z's interpretation of the smiley face emoji isn't new, although it's making headlines again. In 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a whole piece on it and included insight from Gen Z.

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 heart eyes ...

A smiley face isn’t always just a smiley face. Behind the yellow, wide-eyed emoji’s grin lurks an intergenerational minefield. The ubiquitous emoji means happy, good job or any number of other ...

World Emoji Day this year falls today, Tuesday July 17. But you knew that, right? Change the colors of skin, hair and mustaches. Ginger comes to emoji at last. Apple ...