Present-day speakers of Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have substantial Siberian ancestry, a new study of ancient genomes ...

Today is World Emoji Day, and Emojipedia's dedicated Emojitracker has a real-time list of the emoji that are most popular in ...

Emojis, as well as memes and other forms of short-form content, have become central to how we express ourselves and connect online. Yet as meanings shift across different contexts, so too does the ...

Emojis can add tone and personality to text-based messages, helping to clarify the intended meaning behind words.

Last night my 21-year-old daughter, who goes to college in another state, texted me a skull 💀 emoji followed by a crying emoji 😭. It was a strange response to a photo I sent earlier that day.

Emojis are no longer seen as frivolous but as vital tools for emotional expression in digital conversations, with an Irish ...

The skull emoji is also interesting. Traditionally, it represented death, danger, or horror. Gen Z now uses it to mean they are “dead” from laughing. It is humor, not morbidity.

Screenshot of what it means to text with the skull emoji. (CyberGuy.com) For this emoji, the assumption is obvious, right? It’s clearly a human skull to indicate death in one way or another.

Mr. Broni pointed out how both the skull emoji and the chair emoji have been used to connote laughter. (The skull emoji means, “I’m dead,” while the chair emoji was a TikTok in-joke.) ...

Goth at heart and deadly by definition, Scorpios vibe with the skull emoji. Scorpio lords over the eighth house of sex, death and regeneration, the natural habitat of skulls.

‘Cuz you’re dead. The joke killed you. So, if a 20-something employee sends you a skull emoji — fear not! Chances are they think you’re funny. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should ...