Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Selakovic illustrated this by pointing out the “thumbs up” 👍 emoji, which could ... upbeat emojis like “thumbs up” 👍 and “smiley face” 😊. Individuals who scored higher ...