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  2. How emoticons are changing our brains - AOL

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    Type an emoticon the opposite way and our brains don't register it as a face at all. Which kind of makes sense to me, because if someone types it the opposite way in a text it takes me a moment to ...

  3. 20 Emojis Gen Z Can’t Get Enough Of—and Exactly ... - AOL

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    Rather than expressing sadness, this crying emoji indicates happy tears. 2. 🙏 Folded Hands Rather than a sign of prayer, Gen Z uses the folded hands emoji as a pleading gesture or a gratitude ...

  4. Kaomoji - Wikipedia

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    Users from Japan popularized a style of emoticons (顔文字, kaomoji, lit. ' face characters ' [1]) that can be understood without tilting one's head. [2] This style arose on ASCII NET, an early Japanese online service, in the 1980s.

  5. Emoticon - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters Not to be confused with Emoji, Sticker (messaging), or Enotikon. "O.O" redirects here. For other uses, see O.O (song) and OO (disambiguation). This article contains Unicode emoticons or emojis ...

  6. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...

  7. The Real Meaning Behind the Most Popular Emojis - AOL

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    Despite its similarity to words like “emotion” and “emoticon,” the word “emoji” is actually a Japanese portmanteau of two words: “e,” meaning picture, and “moji,” meaning ...

  8. Emoji - Wikipedia

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    Emoji can be used to set emotional tone in messages. Emoji tend not to have their own meaning but act as a paralanguage, adding meaning to text. Emoji can add clarity and credibility to text. [120] Sociolinguistically, the use of emoji differs depending on speaker and setting. Women use emojis more than men. Men use a wider variety of emoji.

  9. Here’s What Your Preferred Heart Emoji Color *Actually* Means

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    That said, there are more than 20 (yes, 20) different heart emoji ... “What’s better than this? ... Just like how white people shouldn’t use dark skin tone emojis, using a white heart emoji, ...