Issue 16: Consider the 🦞 emoji.

In the early 2000s, a character like Ryan Atwood from The OC — that quiet, brooding bad boy — conveyed everything with just a look. Fast forward to today and we’ve got 3,790 little icons that can do the same, each one standing in for a thousand different glances, thoughts or feelings. Emojis have become the shorthand of our emotions, a quick substitute for when words feel like too much.