The First Graphical Emoticons: 42 Smileys. DALLAS, Texas (July 5, 2022) — In celebration of World Emoji Day, Heritage Auctions will present an event sure to put smiles on faces.

THE emoji has been a mainstay of our daily digital conversations for a decade – and millennials don’t know how to communicate without it. As the world celebrates its 7th World Emoji Da… ...

There’s a brand behind the fluorescent smiley face that dominated the 90s rave scene, prudently named The Smiley Company. Now, after decades of running it as a licensing and merchandising ...

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.

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 ...

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...