The laughing crying emoji might be coming back into vogue. According to an Emojipedia analysis of over 2.16 billion tweets, the face with tears of joy emoji has returned to its spot as Twitter's ...

I regret to inform you that the Face With Tears of Joy emoji is over. It is not cool anymore. It is actually hated. This is quite a fall; in 2015, it was the word of the year, according to the Oxford ...

The “face with tears of joy” emoji represents “a crying with laughter facial expression,” according to Wikipedia. “The emoji is used in communication to portray joking and teasing on messaging ...

"Emoji blew up right around 2011," said Laura Miller in Slate, and we're lucky they did. So many more of our online text interactions would have led to misunderstandings and arguments without the ...

“Emoji Dick,” a line-by-line translation into emoji of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, “Moby-Dick,” was published in 2010. Five years later, the Oxford English Dictionary chose the “face with tears of ...

Recap: Emoji have become a staple of modern digital communication, allowing users to convey emotion across a medium that otherwise lacks a human touch. The pictographs have been around for well over ...

Linguists and language pedants generally say no. In “Face With Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji,” Keith Houston, weighing the evidence, concurs. He asserts, however, that there is “a richness ...