To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

A Canadian farmer owes $82,000 for breach of contract after using a “thumbs-up” emoji in a text. According to court documents from the King’s Bench for Saskatchewan in March 2021, grain ...

A Saskatchewan judge says an emoji can amount to a contractual agreement and ordered a farmer to pay more than $82,000 for not delivering product to a grain buyer after responding to a text ...