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   🤷 Person Shrugging emoji

   The person shrugging emoji can designate ignorance, indifference, self-acceptance, passive-aggression, annoyance, giving up, or not knowing what to make of something. It could also be a visual form of the one-word response of indifference, “whatever.”
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   😉 Winking Face emoji

   The winking face emoji is a great go-to emoji for flirtatious situations. Though it's often used to flirt, this emoji is also a useful way to playfully joke or to silently let the reader in…
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   💦 Sweat Droplets emoji

   In sexual contexts, the sweat droplets emoji is used to depict sexual fluids. Sometimes, this emoji also represents actual sweat or water and is completely unrelated to sex.
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   🍆 Eggplant emoji

   The eggplant emoji is a long, purple eggplant, but it’s really just used to represent a penis. 
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   👀 Eyes emoji

   The eyes emoji has many uses. It mostly serves to draw attention to something the user wants to highlight, especially in situations that involve drama and interpersonal tension. It can also be an emoji representation…
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   😶 Face Without Mouth emoji

   The face without mouth emoji can be used as an emotional-tone marker to indicate sadness, loneliness, disappointment, emptiness, and genuine self-deprecation. It can also be used more literally as speechlessness or to represent zipping one’s…
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   🙄 Face With Rolling Eyes emoji

   Face with rolling eyes is an emoji used to express disbelief, annoyance, impatience, boredom, and disdain. It can also be used to indicate sarcasm or irony.
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   😂 Face With Tears of Joy emoji

   Face with tears of joy is an emoji that represents someone laughing so hard that tears are streaming down their face. It can be used as an emotional-tone marker to express amusement and joviality when…
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   🔥 Fire emoji

   The fire emoji is a flame that is mostly yellow with a little red on the top. It is used to signify that something is cool, awesome, exciting, or more colloquially, “on fire.” It can…
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    🙏 Folded Hands emoji

    The folded hands emoji represents an array of abstract and concrete concepts. Some of these are positive like gratitude, spirituality, and hopefulness. It may also be representative of pleading, asking for something, or desiring an…
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    😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes emoji

    The grinning face with smiling eyes emoji expresses joy, happiness, cheerfulness, or excitement. It might also be used to show an ironic attempt at positivity when things are grim.
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    The Original Memes (Before Memes)

    The word meme, coined in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, goes way beyond social-media pixels. Meme captures the concept of “cultural transmission” of ideas in general, where customs and ideas spread from brain to brain.  Which means memes have been around longer than Success Kid or Kermit sipping tea. Wildfire ideas have been around as long as humans have—in fact, discovering fire is …