While the confetti animation is likely to remain a part of WhatsApp’s emoji reactions beyond the holidays, the party popper emoji might not stay in the default tray after the season ends.

Everyone in the thread will be able to see your emoji reaction, which may even include an animation. For instance, the party popper shows digital confetti raining down on your screen.

Google Messages is adding support for full-screen emoji message effects. Just send an emoji to see its corresponding effect. This guide also covers how to turn off full-screen effects in Google ...

Anyone can create a new emoji. Here’s an animated guide to doing it right. By Kolin Pope Dec. 11, 2018 ... Yet at the time, the road from idea to emoji was not well-mapped.

It’s not terribly surprising, then, that Sony Pictures Animation will be making a movie about emoji, the delightful little ideograms you use to caption your Instagrams or pepper your messages.

It might be tempting to assume that new emoji are flown in by stork, handed down from high atop a mountain or mined in caves below the Silicon Valley giants’ headquarters. The truth is even more ...