India, May 4 -- If you're still using the 'laughing' emoji, you might just be giving away your age. Once the universal symbol for laughter, it's now seen as outdated by Gen Z, who prefer a dark, more ironic sense of humour. Their go-to emojis are now the skull, crying face, and rock - ubiquitously used to express sarcasm, absurdity, or extreme hilarity.

This noticeable shift in emoji choices-often leaving older generations puzzled-has not gone unnoticed. Irish emoji expert Keith Broni told the Irish Mirror that while millennials and boomers still favour the laughing emoji, it's steadily falling out of fashion as Gen Z is opting for the skull emoji to convey laughter instead.

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