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 ...

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 ...

Back in the heady pre-Covid days of 2015, Oxford Dictionaries picked the “face with tears of joy” as its word of the year. It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has ...