How across your Snapchat emojis are you? (Picture: Chesnot/Getty Images)
Let’s face it, we all love a good social media emoji from time to time.
With Snapchat now increasing its services to include its new AI chatbot, now is definitely the time to swat up on what they all mean.
The photo messaging, video sending, instant messaging, and photo exploring app uses emojis to give their users different messages.
Snapchat has been incredibly inventive in using emojis as a form of language to appeal to a young demographic.
If you are an original Snapchat user – as in you were there when all you could do was send pictures – then you have probably deciphered a few of the emojis popping up on the app.
For those of you late to the Snapchat game and wondering what these symbols correspond to, then prepare to have your mind blown.
Emojis will pop up on the app beside your Snapchat friend’s names and they function as a way of describing the relationship you and your friend have on Snapchat.
If you are a serious snapper, there still may be some listed here that you will have never seen before. Maybe you aren’t as dedicated to the app as you thought. Or to your Snapchat friends.
Shame on you.
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What does the yellow heart emoji mean?
It is probably the most touching emoji out there as the meaning behind it is something truly heartwarming.
A yellow heart (💛) beside one of your Snapchat friends means that they are your number 1 best friend – and you are theirs.
It means that you send the most snaps to this person, and they send the most snaps to you.
How cute!
Snapchat recently launched its own AI chatbot. (Picture: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Snapchat emojis decoded
Unless you are a Snapchat veteran, understanding the meaning behind the emojis on Snapchat can be a challenge.
A Snapchat friend could be a love heart, a sunglasses face, or even an awkward grin to you, but what does that all mean?
Snapchat emojis 2023
💕 – These hearts signify the snapper is your Super BFF and that you have been each others number one best friend for two months in a row.
❤️️- This romantic symbol means you and your BFF have been number 1 best friends for two weeks straight, this is a graduation from the yellow heart.
💛 – A yellow heart beside one of your Snapchat friends means you are Besties and that they are your number 1 best friend and you are theirs. You send the most snaps to this person, and they send the most snaps to you.
😊 – This should appear beside BFs you Snapchat frequently – anyone in your list of best friends.
😬 – This ‘grin and bear it’ guy is actually telling you something very awkward, your number 1 best friend, is their number 1 best friend. You are both sending the most amount of snaps to the same Mutual Bestie.
😎 – The cool sunnies dude is actually not quite so slick, because this emoji signifies that you and this snapchat friend both have a mutual best friend on snapchat, as in someone you send a lot of snaps to they also send a lot of snaps to.
🔥- This signifies a streak. As one of the sassiest emojis going, this fire symbol pops up beside one of your Snapchat friends when you have snapped back and forth continuously for more than three days in a row.
The fire symbol also has a number beside it that shows how many days you guys have been streaking for – lose these at your peril.
⏳- This menacing hourglass symbol will appear beside your Snapchat friend’s name when you have a streak with them that is about to expire.
Get snapping.
🎂 – This birthday cake emoji appears when it is that Snapchat friend’s birthday but will only appear if they have their ‘Birthday Party’ setting turned on, which can be found in the settings section.
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There is a whole context behind each of these virtual symbols.