He said the laughing emoji - favoured by millennials and boomers - is slowly going out of fashion and Gen-Z are using the skull emoji to ... crying laughing and red heart emojis will remain ...

But he still predicts old favourites such as the smiling face, crying laughing and red heart emojis will remain ... going ‘I didn’t know about the skull emoji being laughter’.

It makes sense, when you think about it, that the laugh-cry emoji has died a sad little death and been replaced with an ever-so-appropriate skull ... an explosion of red, then fade to brown ...