![]() Two other forces may be at work, however. It's sobbing is, just not necessarily with grief but with gratitude, pride, love, excitement-with tears of, well, joy.Īs one keen-eyed commenter distilled the essential conflict in Lawson’s controversial tweet: The result also yields a □ Loudly Crying Face that looks a little less upset than its counterparts on other platforms.Ībove: At a glance, the eyes of Apple's Face With Tears of Joy emoji (left) appear the same as those of its Loudly Crying Face (right), but a closer inspection reveals subtle and important differences.Īpple's design makes □ Loudly Crying Face available not only as a more intensive form of □ Crying Face, as apparently intended, but of □ Face With Tears of Joy as well. The result accentuates the waterworks but also reduces the impact of the wailing mouth. If you zoom in, you'll notice that the eyebrows of □ Loudly Crying Face are a hair thicker and closer to the eyes, which are slightly nearer and higher up on the face. To the casual viewer, Apple’s □ Loudly Crying Face has eyes that are nearly identical to □ Face With Tears of Joy. While Apple’s emoji-craft so often leads the way, perhaps its □ Loudly Crying Face is the odd smiley out this time, which might help explain why it is so popular among its users-and confusing to others. Mozilla, as ever, is the outlier among major vendors, its □ Loudly Crying Face shedding a single tear from a blue face, a convention it uses for other sad or stressed-out smileys. ![]() Perhaps the tech companies will take a cue from Samsung and Google, who've brought their versions of the emoji in line with Apple’s twin cascades in recent updates.Ībove (left to right): The Loudly Crying Face emoji on Google Android 7.0, Google Android 8.1, Samsung TouchWiz 7.1, and Samsung Experience 9.1. ![]() On HTC and LG, □ Loudly Crying Face features squinting eyes shedding two teardrops. There are some notable exceptions, though. HTC and LG stick with teardrops and Mozilla opts for a blue face. Down its cheeks rush two heavy streams of tears, which collect into a pitiful pool on the likes of Twitter and Facebook.Ībove: The Loudly Crying Face emoji is becoming increasingly similar across platforms, with two streams of tears running down its face. ![]() On most platforms, the not-so-smiling smiley □ Loudly Crying Face is yellow-faced and open-mouthed, as if inconsolably bawling or sobbing-two other common names it goes by. It clinched another impressive bronze in 2017 on Apple devices, again looking up to □ Face With Tears of Joy and ❤️ Red Heart on the podium. In 2015, □ Crying Face ranked as the third most used emoji on Twitter, outpaced by the uncatchable No. Since then, □ Loudly Crying Face has become one of the most popular emojis, far outstripping its blue brethren, including its neighbor on the Apple keyboard, □ Crying Face. It came into wide release under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. □ Loudly Crying Face is one of the originals, with roots in Japanese cellular carriers back in 1999. The emoji is not to be confused with □ Face With Tears of Joy, though it frequently gets paired with it and is used for the same effect. Its tone is often meant to be hyperbolic. □ Loudly Crying Face conveys uncontrollable feelings and overwhelming sentiments, ranging from grief and disappointment to hilarity and joy. Our passions now excited, let’s lower the temperature with some cool-headed, deep-breathing emojiology of □ Loudly Crying Face. The official name is just one meaning which is one reason we love emojis ❤️- Emojipedia □ September 10, 2017 We here at Emojipedia couldn’t agree more and voiced as much in the great □ debate:Įmojis can have different uses for different people. One astute emoji enthusiast, noted that the appearance of □ Loudly Crying Face varies by platform and observed: “It’s all about actual usage not the generic names.” Others recoiled at the very thought, prescribing the emoji’s official name, Loudly Crying Face, as its one true meaning. Some crowed agreement that □ is downright inappropriate for condolences, as it howls with laughter-not tears. Looks messed up.- Jasmyn Lawson September 9, 2017 Social media manager Jasmyn Lawson ignited a Twitter debate last year when she proposed some guidelines for crying emojis: We use emojis to help us express emotions, but sometimes it’s the emojis themselves that bring them on.
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