Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...

33% of Emoijipedia users opt for the laughing face with tears of joy, closely followed by 30% who prefer to go for the loudly crying face. 28.5% have the skull emoji as their go-to – with less ...

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"The latter can be see by the fact that the Crying Laughing Face was the #1 emoji in our 'COVID-19' tweet sample, reflecting people expressing amusement or perhaps awkward laughter in reaction to ...