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We asked some real-life teenagers to explain what their baffling emoji usage actually means.

17-year-old TikToker and self-proclaimed Directioner Ella Shuttleworth talked us through the basics...

⏳Hourglass: attractive. Commenting an hourglass emoji beneath someone's photo means they have a good body.

🤰Pregnant Woman: attractive (an alternative to the hourglass emoji). Commenting this emoji beneath someone's photo means they're so attractive they've instantly gotten you pregnant (metaphorically speaking).

🤡Clown Face: foolish. Gen Z will typically comment a clown emoji if you've said something stupid.

🥺Pleading Face: cute. This emoji, with its large doleful eyes, is being used a lot lately, either when the poster finds something incredibly cute or when they are trying to be cute themselves.

😭Loudly Crying Face: laughter. This emoji, or the skull emoji for that matter 💀😭, often accompanies a screenshot of someone saying something hilariously stupid. But it can also be used to express tearing up over something because it's so wholesome. Context is important.

👁👄👁Eye, Lips, Eye: shock. This string of three emojis is currently all over TikTok, and has begun to pop up on Instagram and Twitter too. It's usually commented on something shocking, outrageous or embarrassing, like a fan taking their obsession with something too far or someone posting a video of themselves doing something the commenter wishes they weren't witnessing.

Ella explained that the meanings behind these emojis often develop on Snapchat and TikTok, meaning that they become part of a common language used by those apps' Gen Z user base.

An example of this is that 'Directioners' (fans of One Direction) like herself send each other clown emojis to berate themselves for getting their hopes up that the band will reform.

But young people don't just use emojis to express emotion.

As 19 year-old Louis Gilbert explained, their use is usually much more ironic than that.

There's no emotional attachment to emojis, and the younger generation don't actually feel the way the emoji is trying to express for them. Like they don't actually mean they are crying with laughter. 

The older generation rarely use emojis, but when they do there is a more emotional attachment to them. Or they are just using them to make their sentence look more fun and to try to connect with a younger audience. 

Every language evolves over time and varies between generations and demographic groups. Emojis are no different.

Gen Z, and the various different subgroups and subcultures within that generation, have every right to redefine what emojis mean.

It's only natural that they adapt words and symbols to best fit their own identities and the environments they find themselves in on social media.

But sadly it's also only natural that even millennials get left behind.

Sixteen year-olds were born the year Facebook was created. There are teenagers alive today who are younger than Twitter.


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