The thinking face claims the ninth spot as the most over-popularised emoji with an extinction score of 26.2, with social media users professing that it no longer signifies the deep thought that it ...

An Irish emoji expert has predicted the most-used ones for 2025 and says the laughing face is “the millennial go-to” and is being swapped for the skull emoji by Gen-Z. Dubliner Keith Broni, 35 ...

So we reach for an emoji that’s pregnant with that metaphor: the skull. Fully 92 percent of all people online use emoji now, and one-third of them do so daily.

Like, the skull face and the actually, like, sobbing emoji I feel just have more personality than just, like, haha. SUSAN HERRING: So it's been bleached of its impact.

Irish emoji expert predicts laughing face will die off - as Gen Z prefer using the skull instead. Keith Broni says young people want to "distinguish" themselves, ...