Shady Characters advent calendar 2025: FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY

😂 FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY, aka Unicode code point 0x1F602 . You know this guy, right? FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY, also known as the “cry-laugh” emoji, has been the most commonly-used emoji in the world for much of its existence. Barring a brief fall from grace during the Covid-19 pandemic in favour of ‘😭’ (and let’s face it, we didn’t have quite as much to be joyful about back them), 1 ‘😂’ has been…