Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Gen Z canceled the ‘hostile’ thumbs-up emoji and wants to ban these 9 others By . Jack Hobbs and Alex Mitchell. Published Oct. 12, 2022. Updated Oct. 14, 2022, 11:13 a.m. ET.

Gen Z recently dubbed the thumbs-up emoji as “rude” and “hostile.” Getty Images/iStockphoto “For younger people, the thumbs-up emoji is used to be really passive-aggressive,” a 24-year ...

The thumbs up emoji is so passive aggressive, I can’t really explain it — Drift (@DrifterShoots) October 12, 2022 Young people do not give a shit about a thumbs up emoji.

HuaAnNi replied: "For younger people (I'm 24 for reference) the thumbs up emoji is used to be really passive aggressive. It's super rude if someone just sends you a thumbs up.

An emoji appears to be the next target for the cancel culture, and it's the thumbs up one that according to members of Generation Z, can be perceived as rude or hostile, with .

What once meant a casual “okay” now screams “I am old and out of touch.” Here’s why the humble thumbs up is officially cringe ...

On Oct. 12, the Daily Mail tweeted "Why NOBODY should be using the 'thumbs up' emoji in 2022" with a link to their story on the matter, and similar strong opinions to the Reddit thread were released.

But for Generation Z, or “zoomers," born between the mid-1990s and 2010, the thumbs-up emoji is increasingly viewed as signaling sarcasm or being downright hostile, according to self-reports on ...

Kamile Demir, a computer scientist at Adobe and Adobe representative on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, joins Lisa Dent to explain why Generation Z called out the popular thumbs-up emoji for being ...

But for Generation Z, or “zoomers," born between the mid-1990s and 2010, the thumbs-up emoji is increasingly viewed as signaling sarcasm or being downright hostile, according to self-reports on ...