Completely unaffected by criticism or drama — and making sure people can tell.

Melancholy, heartbreak or a downbeat aesthetic.

Scepticism or pointed doubt — rarely actual thinking.

Please, thank you, prayer — or a high five, depending on who you ask.

Marking someone as the best at something — royalty in their field.

Fruit and vegetable emoji used as body-part euphemisms.

A joke replacement for laughter emoji, meaning nothing at all.

Standing there awkwardly with nothing to say or do.

Overwhelmed, drunk, exhausted, or attracted — depending entirely on context.

Forced enthusiasm masking distress — smiling through it.

Stoic indifference — reacting to something with a completely blank expression.

Complete agreement, or a perfect score — "absolutely".

Suggestive or knowing — implying something without saying it.

Affection with an edge — used for aesthetic reasons as much as emotional ones.

Unbothered confidence — indifference to what anyone else thinks.

A warning sign about a person's behaviour, usually in dating.

Acknowledgement — but read by many younger users as passive-aggressive or dismissive.

Emphasis — wrapping a ✨phrase✨ in sparkles to mark it as ironic, twee or air-quoted.

Calling someone — often yourself — a fool for a bad decision or misplaced hope.

Dissolving from embarrassment, overwhelm or heat.

Forced cheerfulness masking frustration, resignation or dread.

Overwhelmed by something touching — trying not to cry, usually happily.

Begging, sweetness, or exaggerated vulnerability — often deployed manipulatively as a joke.

That's a lie — the emoji form of calling "cap".