P C Gamer's staff recently had an intense debate about whether a solitary thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive or not.

The Unicode Consortium deals with about 50 emoji proposals a year. That might not sound like a lot, but it's because most of the proposals don't even make it past the first round. Why not?

Perhaps it's because an office joke about emoji fosters the sense of community companies seeking retention yearn for. At ReadMe there are 50 Slackmoji versions of its mascot, an owl named Owlbert ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to understand what someone means in a phone message. And when you throw emoji into the mix, things get even more complicated. A " " or " ️" are easy to ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.