Just about everyone is familiar with this emoji, which looks like an anguished smirk.
A study found that the emoji is often drastically misinterpreted by different people.
The team carried out a survey that asked people to describe how they feel when they see the emoji on a scale from -5 to 5.
“Emojis are used alongside text in digital communication, but their visual nature leaves them open to interpretation. In addition, emoji render differently on different platforms, so people may interpret one platform’s rendering differently than they interpret another platform’s,” a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota found in a recent study.
