It ’s 2016 , and if you ’re not using emojis to express your every dream and desire , you mayhap should n’t be admit to own a phone . It ’s incredible how chop-chop our little pictural friends went from a mere expressive digestif to the proverbial roast joker in the eye of the mesa . There aresome real gold standards out there : the 100 - Points emoji , those Praise Hands , and the Eggplant – y’know , for member !

Then there are the other emojis … the forget emojis that playact second fiddle to the smiley faces and fugacious red affectionateness of the world . And it ’s a infernal shame too , because with so many lawfully useful meanings and existent - earth applications programme , they ’re entirely underrated . These are the emojis of our life story . Use them!Express yourself !   Take your text edition conversation to heights heretofore unheard of .

15. Dark Moon

perchance you unintentionally texted your mummy instead of your girlfriend , or goat - dialed your genus Bos , or post some pretty ruinous Snapchats at the bar . Hey , peradventure you even used the wrong " your " in a sentence . Dark Moon is sympathetic to the foibles and f - ups that plague man . He ’s the cheeky , lovable follow - up you send when you ’re embarrassed . I entail , just depend at that face . How can you stay mad at that ?

14. Black Check Mark

Black Check Mark is the 100 - Points emoji ’s underrated little buddy . He ’s fleet , he ’s sturdy , and he ’s all about getting to the goddamn point . It ’s the emoji equivalent of getting a form notarized . utilise Black Check Mark when you do n’t find like type out " OK sounds good " or " Yeah , that ’s hunky-dory " and revel in all the time you spare .

13. Sunglasses

You have to be a real cocky Word of a gun to apply the Sunglasses emoji , but it ’s also an adorably self - deprecating means to acknowledge when you ’re being kind of a douche bag . Be fully cognizant that if you use it you ’re going to get shit from your friends for being so overconfident . This exercise even better when you make a particularly tough pa joke .

12. The Peach

Women are blessed with the Eggplant emoji as their alternative sexting aid . guy cable get the Peach , but do n’t employ it . Why ? possibly because we do n’t realize the Peach resembles a plump rear - oddment , or maybe because we ’re too busy verify the kindling is just right for our next dick pic . In any consequence , the Peach is a no - furbelow way to express your interest in gender and cuts out all the painful , obligatory yak that preempts a hookup . In the countersign of Nicolas Cage inFace / Off … “Peach , I could eat a peach for time of day . " Jesus , what a gravid flick .

11. The Gun

Where the Peach emoji is used to cut through the blubber and severalize somebody you like them , the Gun emoji is used in the same way – except out of hatred . It ’s the sort of emoji you ’d send someone you would like to threaten IRL , but have to refrain from doing so because you ’re essentially unbloody in nature and would never deign stoop to such amoral lows . Still , when your second cousin goes on a huge political Facebook rant that ’s rife with spelling computer error and ends with " Thanks a lot , Obama , " whip that Gun emoji out and show your pop ’s cousin-german ’s tiddler what you ’re made of .

10. Pizza

There are monsters out there who do n’t like pizza and will forbear from using this emoji when presented with the historic period - sometime doubtfulness of " What do you want for dinner ? " People like that probably wish there was a clams emoji . hoi polloi like that bankrupt America . Consider it your patriotic responsibility to text your bed ones the Pizza emoji , because without the bonds of pizza to unite us , we ’re no better than Russia . Let ’s make this nation great again .

9. Shout Man

Welcome to the ultimate passive - fast-growing shutdown . Look , I ’ve never personally received Shout Man in a school text substance , but I ’d be really upturned if I ever did . Shout Man is a call - out to being a shouty person , but not in the cool straight-from-the-shoulder way . You get it if you ’re gyrate your wheel like a blabby little sourpuss jag with a righteous ' tude . Shout Man is well used in a public space where a crowd of agreeable friends can view and comment , like Twitter . you may also use Shout Man in a group text , when someone thinks they ’re the stopcock of the walk . Or is it caulk of the walking ? No , it must be the first one ; no one ’s made of caulking .

8. Flan

What , sometimes you just need flan and do n’t experience like spell it out .

7. The Cool Button

I dare you to get a more millennial emoji out there . The Cool Button is utterly rife with sass and irony . It ’s the emoji you utilise after you ’ve been resist up on a date and the female child ’s like " lol , I vanish asleep . " It ’s what you text your friend after his overly detailed explanation of how his favorite plant is the cactus because of how piffling water system it requires . It ’s the emoji you expend on a showery Sunday good afternoon when the cable has gone out andNetflixwon’t stop buffering .

6. Mouthless Face

What does this face look like to you ? seismic disturbance ? double-dyed and double-dyed disgust ? A human bust apart by a saturating uncomfortable and ill-chosen flavor ? Welcome to the Mouthless Face , an emoji that can be used in answer to inside caper you do n’t get , incorrectly used meme , or when somebody types out " expresso " or " irregardless . " Let this face do the talking – yes , we realize the inherent irony of allowing a face without a oral fissure to talk .

5. Shruggy Bird

Shruggy skirt - popping - out - of - the - plate is like dingy moon ’s young cousin . He pull in mistake and he takes responsibility for them , but – in the end – he does n’t really give a crap about your feelings . You have to be measured with Shruggy Bird , because this piffling gent can burn bridge at a moment ’s notice . You might think it ’s funny to send Shruggy Bird   unaccompanied   into a minefield of abrasive intelligence , but those who receive him wo n’t . Use at your own risk and then bask in the glory of irreverence .

Pro crest : funnier when used in large quantities .

4. Shy Monkey

There ’s elbow room too much lewd content making the round these day – in date apps , text , Snapchats – and Shy Monkey is the least awkward style to narrate somebody , " Oh boy , I really like I had n’t go steady that dick pic . " Shy Monkey is also great for when something is delightfully horrible , unsavory , or otherwise not - OK . what is more , it pull in for a bully follow - up after you reveal something excessive or embarrassing , but want to exert some kind of humility in that cute way self - aware mass tend to do .

3. Fried Shrimp

Fried Shrimp is everything . Fried Shrimp is nothing . It is meaningful and meaningless . It is whatever you want it to be , except it is never to be used when you actually want to corrode electrocute shrimp . That ’s the sorting of matter you say with run-in . Fried Shrimp can be used in any Instagram comment and it ’ll immediately make you seem as knowledgeable and wise as the Dalai Lama himself . Some say he was the one who invented this particular emoji , others swear that Steve Jobs was behind it . Only I cognise the true statement , but I ’m not in much of a rush to disclose its actual substance .

2. Dancing Lady in a Red Dress

You do n’t have to be a dancing gentlewoman in a reddish dress to prize the fiery affective deception of Dancing Lady in a Red Dress . She ’s your girl when someone asks if you ’re blend in out and the response is an unequivocal " um , yes . " If Dancing Lady had a theme birdsong it would probably be something by J.Lo or the 1993 pip " Rhythm of the Night . " She always brings her A - game and can also be used to make light of drivel Tinder dates on which you turn and run full force in the other direction .

1. Poodle

deeply in the recess of the emoji carte , hidden amongst a lot of cull farm animals and useless lizards , is Poodle . Just look at this favorable motherfucker ! Poodle is the tongue - wag persona of earnestness , a well - groomed fluff ball of enthusiasm . Did you just make architectural plan with someone you like ? Are you by all odds proceed to keep those plans ? Are you excited about it ? Conjure Poodle !

poodle dog expect this generation ’s gonzo , apathetic malaise direct in the side and enounce " no more ! " No more strike down plans , no more ghosting , no more sadistic , nihilistic give - no - fucks . Poodle keeps his promises . He ’s the ultimate stamp of approval , the patron saint of making fun thing happen .

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