Crying-from-laughter emoji: A millennial and gen Z's best friend.

Pretty sure everyone used this at least once in their lives.

To us, this one conveys a more powerful version of the word "please".

Yup, it is strange that the mushroom has triumph over other vegetables.

No surprises here, Singaporeans love their boba.

Vaxxed and ready to take on the world – when borders open, of course.

Communication has certainly evolved over the years – brick cell phones with antennas have transitioned to sleek smartphones that weigh 20 times less and perform 50 times better. With technological advancements, even the way we speak to one another has changed; we have new jargons, animated video calls, and the most popular of all – emojis. If someone told us ten years ago that these tiny and cute faces would actually replace some of the words we use daily, we wouldn't have believed you. Last we checked, new languages take decades or centuries to take hold but emojis ascended to that level almost overnight and it now has its own day on 17 July.

With millions of people on Facebook and Messenger (no shame in using the app, we know you still have it at the very least), the social media site has gathered some very interesting statistics on some of the crowd-favourite emojis in Singapore according to age group – let's take examine them.