The skull emoji is also interesting. Traditionally, it represented death, danger, or horror. Gen Z now uses it to mean they are “dead” from laughing. It is humor, not morbidity.

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Instead, they prefer the skull emoji (💀), which is shorthand for the gen Z catch phrase “I’m dead”. This means something is funny (not that they’re literally deceased).

Ajani says, “The crying emoji 😭 is the most commonly used amongst everyone that I know.” Gen Z “only uses this emoji 😂 to be ironic when something isn’t funny,” says Esmé.

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