WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.870 - [Voiceover] Oxford Dictionaries just announced 00:00:01.870 --> 00:00:03.589 their word of the year for 2015, 00:00:03.589 --> 00:00:06.175 which is the crying laughing emoji. 00:00:06.175 --> 00:00:08.425 Reporting that it makes up to 17% of all 00:00:08.425 --> 00:00:10.171 emoji use in the United States. 00:00:10.171 --> 00:00:13.706 I know what you're all thinking, how is it not the eggplant? 00:00:13.706 --> 00:00:15.532 OK, we're going to go talk to some people 00:00:15.532 --> 00:00:18.077 about their emoji use and see what they say. 00:00:21.057 --> 00:00:23.753 What is the emoji you use most often? 00:00:23.753 --> 00:00:25.848 - It's either the cry laughing emoji 00:00:25.858 --> 00:00:27.406 or it's like the little sassy lady. 00:00:27.406 --> 00:00:28.636 - [Voiceover] You mean the one behind you? 00:00:28.636 --> 00:00:29.906 - Ya, what? 00:00:29.906 --> 00:00:31.068 - It's this guy. 00:00:31.068 --> 00:00:33.065 - Definitely the tongue sticking out emoji, like the-- 00:00:34.035 --> 00:00:37.848 - The word of the year for 2015 is the crying laughing emoji 00:00:37.848 --> 00:00:39.066 do you agree? 00:00:39.066 --> 00:00:41.527 - No that's stupid it's not a word, it's an emoji. 00:00:41.527 --> 00:00:43.246 - How is an emoji a word? 00:00:43.246 --> 00:00:44.393 - Are they words now? 00:00:44.393 --> 00:00:46.580 Is that where we are with life? 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:50.129 - Maybe, a picture is worth a thousand of them so-- 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.396 - No (laughs). 00:00:53.396 --> 00:00:54.801 - That is so cool! 00:00:54.801 --> 00:00:56.908 That's fucking dope can you believe that? 00:00:56.908 --> 00:00:58.465 - I use that all the time, 00:00:58.465 --> 00:01:01.308 just for anything, both positive and negative. 00:01:01.308 --> 00:01:03.071 - I think that's the perfect emoji to be like, 00:01:03.671 --> 00:01:05.159 my life is so hard and I'm really stressed 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.113 but at the same time I'm laughing about it. 00:01:07.113 --> 00:01:09.392 - When you can communicate like with your phone 00:01:09.392 --> 00:01:11.257 and through like pictures and stuff, 00:01:11.257 --> 00:01:13.416 it's pretty much created like this like new language. 00:01:13.416 --> 00:01:15.112 - I don't think emojis should be words, 00:01:15.112 --> 00:01:16.887 I think that's a dangerous road to go down. 00:01:16.887 --> 00:01:19.674 'Cause soon we'll just be not communicating. 00:01:19.674 --> 00:01:21.114 We'll just be staring at each other. 00:01:21.114 --> 00:01:22.819 - Is that the only emoji that got in? 00:01:22.819 --> 00:01:23.819 - Mhm. 00:01:23.819 --> 00:01:25.247 That's not like even top ten emoji. 00:01:25.247 --> 00:01:26.675 Poop emoji should go in. 00:01:26.675 --> 00:01:28.210 Little chicken emoji, what about the ghost? 00:01:28.210 --> 00:01:31.456 I think that people who are using the crying laughing emoji 00:01:31.456 --> 00:01:34.536 are using it in lieu of actual humor 00:01:34.536 --> 00:01:35.823 and they are weak people. 00:01:37.233 --> 00:01:37.957 - Damn. 00:01:37.957 --> 00:01:39.820 - OK, OK, I have something to say to that. 00:01:39.820 --> 00:01:42.612 Crying laughing emoji, number one, top emoji. 00:01:42.612 --> 00:01:43.891 Number one top emoji. 00:01:43.891 --> 00:01:46.122 - Yes, proves my point, proves my point. 00:01:46.122 --> 00:01:47.175 - Say I'm wrong, say I'm wrong. 00:01:47.175 --> 00:01:48.012 - You're wrong. 00:01:48.012 --> 00:01:49.092 - I'm right. 00:01:57.072 --> 00:01:58.727 - It's here! It's here! 00:01:58.727 --> 00:02:00.731 - [All] It's here! 00:02:00.731 --> 00:02:02.385 - [All] It's here! 00:02:02.385 --> 00:02:03.033 - Get it. 00:02:03.033 --> 00:02:03.708 - Get it. 00:02:03.708 --> 00:02:05.460 - There, get it. 00:02:05.460 --> 00:02:06.934 - I think they got it, get it. 00:02:06.934 --> 00:02:08.025 - Ya you get it. 00:02:08.025 --> 00:02:08.942 - It's here.