Girls have ruled and boys have drooled on Snapchat over the past few days — at least among teenagers, who are enmeshed in a coded game that’s empowering for some and seriously frustrating (not to mention a little annoying) for others. That’s because fruit has taken over the social media app known for the ephemerality of its images. But the emojis teenage girls are eagerly posting to the site aren’t some random fruit salad; they’re a code employed to at once have fun and confuse boys — and to leave adults totally in the dark, because what is your mom doing on Snapchat, anyhow? Figuring out what all these Snapchat fruit meanings are, perhaps, and unlocking the mystery that is the love lives of modern teens.
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