adding that it’s his personal favorite heart emoji. When to use: Just as you would with the red heart, feel free to use this to convey any positive emotion—but without the potential romantic ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

But if you're active on Twitter, you've probably seen its popular emoji mashup bots, which combine multiple emojis into one. Only recently, Emoji Kitchen was native to Android users on Gboard.

This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to what's available on your smartphone's keyboard.