But these more realistic emoji still lived alongside the blobby expressions ... looking at the facial characteristics,” she says. “They have little homages to the blob. They're not perfectly ...

“The most popular [emoji], by far, the smiley faces and hearts ... Google’s dancer used a blob playfully pirouetting to communicate a silly expression lacking in self-consciousness.

The first emojis can be traced back to the late 1980s, but it was not until 2011 that they became a part of our everyday ...

They’re slightly blob-shaped and alien-like. Some of them are downright scary, others have a quirky charm to their squished expressions ... The new emoji do look more like normal people rather than ...

This is why we can't have nice emoji. Google has decided to revive its "blob" emoji in the form of a sticker pack ... as opposed to those shapeless yellow lumps with indecipherable expressions that ...

For example, on Google, emoji having a face are blob-shaped and not round ... there is insufficient expression to create authorship; an idea can be expressed in only a limited number of ways ...

Our new favorite emoji ... name, “Face With Uneven Eyes and Wavy Mouth." We prefer woozy. The site describes woozy as, "A yellow face with a crumpled mouth and a cockeyed expression, as if ...

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive ...

But there is one emoji whose ... in-cheek expression of embarrassment or a way of describing something awkward. By now, it is clear that the shape-shifting nature of melting face has all but ...

From simple smiley faces and love hearts to ... Oh good what would I do without the purple blob'. While one commenter added: 'They implemented the purple splat emoji oh my god I thought it was ...