The other day, I texted my daughter and asked her to describe herself using emoji. Sophie responded with blue letters spelling “Zzz” — the emoji for sleep. Appropriate, I thought, since she ...

Gen Z canceled the ‘hostile’ thumbs-up emoji and wants to ban these 9 others By . Jack Hobbs and Alex Mitchell. Published Oct. 12, 2022. Updated Oct. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. ET.

Police and experts are warning parents to be vigilant about the emoji on their children's phones, following Netflix's thriling drama Adolescence. The series follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller ...

On Oct. 12, the Daily Mail tweeted "Why NOBODY should be using the 'thumbs up' emoji in 2022" with a link to their story on the matter, and similar strong opinions to the Reddit thread were released.