People are downloading positive, celebratory animated emoji to add to Slack more often than anything else, according to data from Slackmojis.com, the unofficial source for your company's emoji needs.

So, if you get a series of skull emoji in response to a joke, it may actually mean that someone found it extremely funny ... thumbs up and other cartoon icons - rather than words - are the ...

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Certain strings of emojis, when placed together, imply something specific, although it is often never followed up with an explanation. This article will go over popular emojis and what they mean in ...

It’s a question that, apparently, haunted Phil Witte and Rex Hesner — so much so that they wrote a book about it, “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons.” Not that it was ...

Our escalating vocabulary for showing what we find funny has likewise led to a dizzying cycle of emoji evolution, since tone tags change just like words do. Once the laughing-crying emoji became ...

As someone who loves to prank my friends, I can see these audio emoji being overused and quickly becoming more annoying than funny. Imagine dropping a womp womp as your friend cries to you about a ...

But when it comes to punctuating one of those professional, albeit unpretentious messages with a cutesy emoji — staffers in their early 20s have deemed one cheeky cartoon as totally NSFW. “ ...

Emoji have norms, and some have generally agreed-upon meanings. But many, too, are flexible and fluid. 💦 can refer to sweat, meth, or sex, according to a blog post from Goldman. It’s funny to ...

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There is something just so inherently funny about emoji copy and paste hacks, and emoji art. Whether that makes us immature? We don't care, because sometimes all a text conversation is really ...