Seems like "LOL" is dying off. In her New Yorker piece, Larson posited that "hehe" sprung forth out of the vocabulary of today's youth, but Facebook found that this isn't exactly the case."From ...

The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, ... The first emoticon was posted to a Carnegie Mellon University message board on September 19, 1982.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

Are you an "LOL"-er or a "haha"-er? Or maybe you're the king of "hehe's" or the queen of smiley-face emoji. A new Facebook study shows that your way of expressing laughter on social media may have ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...