Not a day goes by where I don’t use a little “party popper” emoji to add color to a conversation or a “joy” face to laugh at a joke. Emoji have become major tools of communication over the past decade ...

Blue emoji memes, also known as Blumoji, are made up of emojis from a sticker pack detailing humorous reactions from the same character, who is blue instead of the traditional yellow. The versatile ...

The Crying Laughing emoji (😂) is there for those moments when you’re laughing hard. If you feel the tears prickling the corner of your eyes, this is the way to express it. It’s one of the original ...

Some nine years ago, a collection of expressive little icons — emoji? — showed up in our smart devices and now it’s hard to imagine life without them. Everyone uses them — teenagers, adults, ...

Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. The symbol dates back to ancient Greece, though tilde comes from Spanish, ...

The blobs first appeared in the spring of 2013. They were roundly amorphous, like cookie dough plopped onto a baking sheet. Their faces, a rainbow of emotions, had mouths that turned up and down in ...