Credit: screenshot: tiktok @blank.antho While it isn't the funniest joke ... This isn't the first time emoji have strayed from their intended meaning. Gen Z uses the skull emoji to represent ...

Gen Z choosing the skull as a sign of being dead, something is so funny. In fact, the loudly crying emoji is an example of how different people and generations have adapted the original meanings ...

The skull emoji used to be associated with Halloween ... It’s commonly used in the same way the laughing emoji was, to say something is so funny you’re metaphorically “dead”.