MODERN day conversations have been hijacked by barfing faces, bearded men and beaming turds. While languages are deep-rooted in culture and history, it’s a widely accepted belief that cartoons or ...

WHEN you have to pester someone over text to do something, there’s one emoji that’s guaranteed to guilt them into doing what you want… the sad eyes, obviously. That said, one iPhone user was left ...

It's been a while since the Unicode Emoji Consortium released its sixth set of proposed emojis last June, with a follow up in August (which offered up a drunken face and unhappy poo, oddly enough).

Happy face, sad face – are emojis the nearest thing to a universal language? More people “speak” emoji than English. By Sophie McBain The Emoji Movie tells the story of Meh, an emoji facing deletion ...

There was once a time in the mid 90s when the Internet became a viable option for everyday people, not something that was stuck in a dusty university lab. It was new, unpredictable, and a little ...

We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? Deciding whether a googly-eyed turd should express a wider range of emotions is not the frivolous undertaking it might appear to be. (Getty ...