Monkey emoji could be the greatest Twitter debate– what do they mean? 

Monkey emoji meaning 
Same monkey or three? 

What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What do the monkey emoji actually mean? Wait, what?

There are definitely more serious questions for the mind to ponder - but thousands of Twitter users have been busy focusing on the three monkey emoji you may have come across on your smartphone.

More than 60,000 users have been debating it, in fact, after Twitter comedian @jonnysun opened a can of monkey emoji worms.

He asked:

Many users pondered what the emoji mean, with the votes tied at 50/50 at time of writing, sparking memes and jokes.

Others were convinced it’s all to do with the proverbial principle: “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

Emojipedia backs up the three monkey theorists - providing more info on the See-No-Evil Monkey and his friends.

It explains: “One of the three wise monkeys, known as Mizaru.

“This See-No-Evil monkey has hands covering his eyes, as part of the proverb 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'.

“Sometimes used as a playful ‘I didn’t want to see that expression’.

“The See-No-Evil Monkey emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.”

So there you go, have you changed your mind? Vote below:

A recent study has found that emoji show up starkly differently on Android compared to Apple phones - potentially causing arguments.

"Someone described the Google one as 'blissfully happy' and the Apple one as 'ready to fight' - which actually ended up going in the title of our research paper," said Hannah Miller, a PhD candidate and the lead author on a paper on emoji miscommunication.

While Snapchat recently added video chat and emoji stickers to catch up with its social media rivals.

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