The distorted face emoji won for the Most Anticipated Emoji for 2025, and the melting face (🫠) emoji won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The melting face emoji is now the youngest emoji to receive ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji ...

CNET's most-used emoji shows how versatile emoji can be While there was a tie for favorite emoji at CNET, one emoji received about 20% of the votes for most-used emoji, and that is the 🙏 folded ...

“I’ve never related to an emoji so much in my life,” raved one X user. Some people went so far as to predict it will be “the most used emoji of the year,” according to the Daily Mail.

It was created by Australian emoji historian and Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge in 2014. July 14 was picked as the date for World Emoji Day because it's the same date that appears on the Calendar ...

A similar emoji, called "Rolling on the Floor Laughing," is also no longer in vogue. When asked about that emoji over a video call, Thiru visibly grimaced. "I don't like that one," she said.

A similar emoji, called "Rolling on the Floor Laughing," is also no longer in vogue. When asked about that emoji over a video call, Thiru visibly grimaced. "I don't like that one," she said.

06-27-2025 TECH Why Gen Z is ditching popular emojis for unexpected alternatives A new emoji trend is pushing lesser-used icons like the wilted rose and aerial tramway into the spotlight.

Yes, I voted in the poll, and, no, my creative genius didn't top either of our lists. So without further ado, here are some of CNET's favorite and most used emoji and what those emoji mean.