2025 Is the Year of the Crying-Laughing Emoji

By Oscar Ponteri CM ’27 Graphic by Ginny O’Marah SC ’28 I remember it vaguely. At first, it was just one isolated TikTok slandering skinny jeans, but soon, more and more started popping up, taking aim at side parts, boomerangs, and then, the crying-laughing emoji. A young woman—maybe a few years older than me—nodded her head along to some viral sound, pointing to a caption … Continue reading 2025 Is the Year of the Crying-Laughing Emoji