Its brows are in a sharp arch as it makes direct eye contact while rubbing its hands together. It’s unclear exactly when the emoji started being used as a meme, but it first appeared on social ...

The clapping hands emoji: When used repetitively in a row, it signifies applause, but as any social media user by now understands, that is not the emoji's primary placement in the world of Twitter.

It was sort of like a cutesy version of a Venn diagram, only instead of overlapping circles, each group was represented by a limb or hand ... is not the first emoji-related meme that’s gone ...

Emoji, in other words, are a roundabout way to generate fellow feeling. And sure enough, this report starts with a clap—the applause hands emoji, to be precise. Applause hands was one of the ...