The skull emoji can also perfectly encapsulate those cringe-worthy moments when we wish the ground could swallow us up. It’s a way of saying we wish we could disappear from moments that are just ...

A Natural History of Emoji' by Keith Houston "Emoji blew up right around 2011," said Laura Miller in Slate, and we're lucky ...

Instead, they prefer the skull emoji (💀), which is shorthand for the gen Z catch phrase “I’m dead”. This means something is funny (not that they’re literally deceased).

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 ...

Here are the top 10 most popular emoji in the U.S.: The red heart is the number one emoji across all countries, followed by the checkmark, fire, sparkles, loudly crying face, and skull.