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.

"Will we have a CRYING PILE OF POO next ... Getty Images Apple's happy poo emoji has inspired merchandise He argued that a face-free "coil of dog dirt with stink lines and flies" was the "proper ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...