Emoticons are ingratiated into modern language. Tweens communicate in nothing but nonsensical strings of emojis, and artists use them to create entire tales. But even with widespread use, emoticons' emotions have remained relatively 1-dimensional since their inception. Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"But I don't know what most of the current emoticons mean! How am I supposed to tell maternal love apart from "I've just seen the size of your penis an..." More »
Emojis are almost always fun. I mean, does it get better than throwing up hilarious characters like a hammering toilet with winged money to friends or changing Jay-Z and Kanye West lyrics to Emoji so hard? Didn't think so. But what about those shape emojis? THOSE are useless. Until now. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"Well like I said I've never seen one of these posted from another phone and they started show up when the iPhone came out. I'm surprised anyone actual..." More »
Gizmodo loves emoji more than we love some of our own family members and/or sexual partners—sometimes, it's just the best (or only) way to express yourself. But there's a dark side to emoji—they can be weaponised. Let's troll. Read More >>
Featured comment by szhemmatpour:
"Mega-troll would imply some thought or planning went into it.
Instead, someone with the mental capacity of an eight year old spews out crap.
Congr..." More »
The new version of Apple's iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time. Read More >>
Gizmodo loooooves emoji. They are so cute! And apparently, they're on Windows Phone in droves, which somehow totally slipped under our radar. But luckily, WP Central's already compiled all of the adorable little icons and their input codes. Wink! Turtle! Stormcloud! Something called Right hug! Read More >>
I bet when you're texting with friends you like to drop a :-) or maybe a ;-). If you're really up on your game, it's possible you toss in a (^_^). And because RIM and Samsung decided to include a quick-access key for these wonderful digital creations on their smartphones, some soulless patent trolls got all >:-O about it, and are taking the companies to court. Read More >>
Featured comment by tw@panda:
"Looking at those emoticons, I can't think of a single reason why I'd need to use a smiling poo emote. Oh, hang on... patent trolls. That explains why ..." More »
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