This time, it’s not Gen Z dictating the terms – but the emoji ... big four’ in emoticon land – with the face with tears of joy, the rolling on the floor smiley, the loudly crying face ...

When I tried generating a "rolling on the floor laughing" emoji, Genmoji produced this: Similarly, this was one of the options when I wanted a "crying face with big, streaming tears" emoji ...

"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 ...