‘Tears of Joy’ emoji no longer sufficient to describe the surrealistic hellscape that is now

Times right now are … weird, and your emoji use proves it. 

Or, rather, we should say your disuse. That’s because everyone’s once-favorite way to pictorially say haha omg that shit is so hilarious I’m crying right now, the so-called “Tears of Joy” emoji, has experienced a major falloff in use. 

You know the one. This little dude: ?.

According to Emojipedia, while the TOJ emoji is still popular, its use seems to have peaked in early 2017. These days, people are turning less and less to our jovial friend and more and more to its coked-up Dadaist cousin: Rolling on the Floor Laughing (?).  Read more…

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