Face it, ‘everyone and your mom’ has been indoctrinated into the most non-verbally expressive form of communication: emojis.
The newest batch, which recently rolled out for Apple users in October’s iOS 9.1 release, has presumptively been more effectively geared towards teens and collegiate.
Researcher Dr. Owen Churches, from Flinders University in Adelaide, reported to ABC Science: “Emoticons are a new form of language that we’re producing, and to decode that language we’ve produced a new pattern of brain activity.”
With the rewriting of brain patterns and their correlation to momentary emotions, we’re bound to slip in at least a few faces a day.
Since we can suspect you’ve clobbered the newest release already, let’s take a look at creative ways you can use the new emojis to express your most desired emotions:
Live Long and Prosper: Live on Trekkies!
Face with rolling eyes: Sass-master!
Middle finger: You’re either an awfully spiteful emoji user, one of those who shows backwards affection, or under the age of twenty-five.
Unicorn: A primary staple to anyone imaginatives’ existence.
Burrito or Taco: Ease off the pipe. Taco Bell isn’t running out of mystery slop anytime soon.
Yin yang or Om symbol: You dirty hippy, you!
Snowman: It’s your only connection to winter since let’s face it, at this point, California may never see a flake of snow again!
Synagogue: If you’re Jewish and using this emoji to alert all non-Jews that you’re worshiping God, Moses or whomever, you probably have already broke the number one rule: the Sabbath bans usage of electronics, you silly ‘I was dragged to temple’ kind of Jew.
Skull and Crossbones or Coffin: You’re quite morbid. Maybe you’d like to rethink your existence on planet earth if you worship the dead more than you do the living?
Slightly smiling face: For when you’ve acquiesced to cracking the most minimal smile, out of the polite goodness of your heart [*winky face*].
Menorah: It’s not Hanukkah yet!
Heart exclamation mark: It’s the “I love you, goddammit” symbol for when your significant other was too ignorant to catch it the first time.
Hole: The black hole of oblivion you often wish to hop into.
Upside down smiling face: You stereotypical collegiate, intoxicated more often than not.
World map: Escape while you still can! Before career, babies, husbands, cats, dogs, mortgage, debt, more babies, more debt, and the list goes on…