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

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.

The exhausted emoji face was named the “most anticipated” emoji in the recent World Emoji Awards, receiving more than 60% of the vote. The splatter came in second, and the shovel third.