Check out the List of the Most Popular Emojis of 2021 Right Here!

Dec. 5, 2021

The Unicode Consortium is a public non-profit organization that is in charge of managing Emoji, which it states is a “language” that 92% of the world’s online population use. So recently, the organization published an in-depth blog post, revealing the most popular emojis of this year and an ample amount of data relating to the pattern of emoji usage in the world.

As you can see,the Tears of Joy smiley face emoji remains the most used and most popular emojiin the world, with the Heart emoji holding on to its second position. The Rolling on the Floor Laughing emoji has moved up to the third place from its previous fourth position, while the Thumbs Up emoji made a leap to the #4 position from the last place.

The Two-Hearts emoji took an exit from the top 10 list and is replaced by the Feeling Loved emoji, which was previously in the 16th position. Although these may seem significant changes, the UC mentions that if you“seek dramatic changes, the Top 200 contains bigger jumps”. For instance, the birthday cake emoji moved up to the 25th position from its previous 113th position, the Red Balloon emoji jumped to the 48th position from the 139th position and the Pleading Face emoji moved up to the #14 rank from #97.

Interesting Tidbits About Emoji Usage Patterns

You cancheck out Unicode Consortium’s official postto know a lot more about emojis and how they are used in our society now. Also, let us know about your favorite and most-used emoji in the comments below, and stay tuned for more such interesting stories.

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