Exciting Facts about World Emoji Day

What does the emoji mean? Are they beneficial? Emoji are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and web pages.

The Unicode Consortium has created a new standard called Emojipedia, where you can see all the meanings behind the emojis.

Emojis are characters that represent facial expressions or emotions. They are part of the Unicode Standard, which the Unicode Consortium developed. There are currently over 3400 emojis available. There is hardly any social media platform or messaging platform (e.g. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc.) that does not enable the use of emoji in social media posts.

Emoji (singular emoji, plural emoji or emojis) have become an acceptable way of communication these days. Everyone uses them in tweets and chats on various platforms.

We use them daily, especially on social media, texting and chatting. Youths especially have become so creative in their use of emojis.

Some of the favourite emojis in use are:

• calendar emoji
• heart emoji
• original emoji
• custom emoji to represent a real person (e.g. Kim Kardashian), object (e.g. eggplant emoji), etc.

Joining the growing list of animals represented on the emoji keyboard are beautifully designed characters for the kangaroo, peacock, parrot and lobster, with the addition of new food emoji for mango, lettuce, cupcake, moon cake and other popular items.

We can even say there is a global emoji craze with new emojis regularly added. Many characters across sports, symbols, superhero emoji, a softball, Nazar amulet, infinity symbol and many more are constantly being added.

Emojis have become so universal that July 17 has become known as World Emoji Day!

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Here Are Some Fun Facts and Interesting Tidbits about World Emoji Day.

• Emojis were first invented in 1999 but not commonly adopted until 2011, and there are now 2,666 official emojis. (time.com)
• Who Started Emoji Day? According to CNBC, World Emoji Day is the brainchild of Jeremy Burge, who created it in 2014. Jeremy Burge is the London-based founder of Emojipedia. (en.wikipedia.org)
• Why Do We Celebrate Emoji Day? The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate the emoji – a small digital picture or icon representing an idea, concept or emotion in electronic communications. (holidayscalendar.com)
• What Is World Emoji Day? New emojis (both emoji and emojis are acceptable plural forms of the word) are developed yearly. (nationaldaycalendar.com)
• The most popular emoji on Facebook in the UK is the “Face with Tears of Joy” or “crying laughing” emoji. – indeed, English Oxford Dictionaries made it their word of the year in 2015. (theguardian.com)
• Gifted by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone company in 2016, New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired the 176 original 12-by-12 pixel designs for the initial emojis, displaying them alongside its modern and expanded equivalents. (theguardian.com)
• Despite being critically panned, winning four Razzies including worst movie, worst screenplay, worst director, and worst screen combo, and at one point having an accumulated rating of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, depressingly, the Emoji Movie still grossed over $200m (£152m). (theguardian.com)
• World Emoji Awards held, where votes were counted for Best New Emoji, Most Anticipated Emoji, Excellence in Emoji, and Emoji of the Year. (checkiday.com)
• According to Brandwatch’s recent report, The Emoji Report, the volume of tweets containing a brand name and an emoji has grown by 49% since September 2015.
• The most prominent brands worldwide have recognised that 95% of humans online have used emojis and implemented the language into their marketing efforts.
• The three verticals that use emojis most in their marketing email subject lines are Music & Audio, Food & Beverage, and Entertainment. Still, the usage levels for those first two industries eclipse the rest, appearing at more than twice the rate of any other vertical. Source: braze.com
• Emails that use emojis in their subject lines see unique open rates 28% higher than the average open rate for marketing emails. Source: braze.com
• There’s an emoji course. This free course will teach you about the benefits and challenges of meeting people from different cultures. And how language and human communities shape each other. (open.edu)
• For a long time, Google’s “blob” Emojis were one of those little details that differentiated Android from other operating systems. (androidauthority.com)
• Globally, the most important day for emoji usage on Messenger is New Year’s Eve, as per the data collected between April to July 2018. https://www.dekhnews.com/world-emoji-day-2018/

The emoji song!

Tell us, what’s your favourite emoji? Happy World Emoji Day! 🙂

Conclusion

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