Face with Tears of Joy emoji

One of the most popular emoji, Face with Tears of Joy was proclaimed the Word of the Year by Oxford English Dictionary in 2015.

By 2010, when the Unicode Consortium was compiling a unified collection of characters from the Japanese cellular emoji sets, which would be included with the October 2010 release of Unicode 6.0,[1] a face with tears of joy was included in the au by KDDI and SoftBank Mobile emoji sets.

[14] In 2017, Time reported that for the third consecutive year the emoji "[reigned] supreme on social media".

However, CNN did note that "sometimes teens and twenty-somethings use emoji – like the laughing crying one – ironically, such as by sending six or seven of them in a row to friends, to exaggerate it.

[19] Researchers speculate that this decrease in popularity is due to its over-saturation and overuse within online communities.

[21][22] In November 2013, Brenden Gallagher of Complex ranked the "Laughing Crying Face" emoji at #2 in his "Emoji Power Rankings", writing that "research courtesy of Complex Stats and Information indicates that the Laughing Crying Face has almost reached a point of complete saturation".

With [the emoji's] intense and inscrutable emotional lability, [it] is less of a word and more of an invitation to invent some sort of meaning".

[1] Abi Wilkinson, a freelance journalist writing for The Guardian, opined that the Face with Tears of Joy emoji is "the worst emoji of all", describing it as an "obnoxious, chortling little yellow dickhead [with] bulbous, cartoonish tears streaming down its face".