The Netflix drama Adolescence continues to dominate the streaming charts, and the series appears to have touched a collective nerve. Although fictional, many of the issues addressed in the drama reflect the reality of the world teenagers are growing up in, as well as some contemporary concepts parents are struggling to navigate, or of which they may have been entirely unaware.
One talking point has been the various meanings behind emojis used by teenagers online.
In the drama, a police investigator’s son explains to his bewildered father that the various colours of “love heart” emojis can have vastly different meanings. “Red means love, purple horny, yellow ‘I’m…