All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.

Apple Updated Its Mask-Wearing Emoji to Include a Smile. It just shows that following CDC guidelines can put a smile on your face. By Katie Dupere Published: Oct 05, 2020 8:37 AM EDT.

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia.

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Modern electronic emoticons date to a 1982 e-mail from Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist who proposed using the sequence of characters :-) as a “joke marker” to help his colleagues decipher ...

On the Mac side, if you’re running OS X Mavericks, accessing emoji is never more than a menu (or keyboard shortcut) away in most apps. Just go to the Edit menu and choose Special Characters.