Emojis can add tone and personality to text-based messages, helping to clarify the intended meaning behind words.

In honor of World Emoji Day today, we asked a language expert to help us decode Gen Z’s commonly used emojis and how adults are misunderstanding them. Emoji Slang ...

A SKULL immediately makes people think of death. However, when it comes to emojis there is always more to the story than meets the eye. What does the skull emoji mean? The main meaning of the skull… ...

Similarly, a baseball cap emoji is a new iteration of a community-specific term in hip hop that means “lie” or “BS.” Language is always changing to adapt to cultural shifts.

Their go-to emojis are now the skull, crying face, and rock — ubiquitously used to express sarcasm, absurdity, or extreme hilarity. Gen Z ditches the laugh emoji for crying and skull faces ...

An Irish emoji expert has predicted the most-used ones for 2025 and says the laughing face is “the millennial go-to” and is being swapped for the skull emoji by Gen-Z. Dubliner Keith Broni, 35 ...

🧢 Billed Cap: Gen Z: Slang symbol for “cap” (lie); “no cap” means telling the truth. Older generations: Rarely used; interpreted literally as an emoji of a cap.