Used in a response to something funny for text formats.
In a report based off of 650 million public tweets, the laughing crying emoji (😂) was the most used emoji, but with the crying emoji as a close second. This is around the time the crying emoji began to popularize as a response to something funny, instead of merely sad situations. Now in 2022 the crying emoji is primarily used by young people in response to humor and the laughing crying emoji seen as cheesy. The platform that rocketed this new use of the crying emoji is without a doubt tiktok. Finding cold stone proof of this is not readily available but there is evidence and reasoning to it. In the beginning of tiktoks popularity around the year 2020, primarily younger people used it and created their own inside jokes and culture of gen z on the app. A trend that began to emerge was using the crying emoji as a signal of laughing and quickly it became a joke of pointing out that the people who still use the 😂 emoji are either old or uncool. By doing this we were unconsciously pointing out the zeitgeist in using the 😭 emoji as laughter.
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