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World Emoji Day


World Emoji Day is an annual unofficial holiday occurring on 17 July, intended to celebrate emoji; in the years since the earliest observance, it has become a popular date to make a product or other announcements and releases relating to emoji.


Originating on Japanese mobile phones in 1997, emojis became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after being added to several mobile operating systems. They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world.


In the late 1990s, a Japanese artist named Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji. He was working for a mobile communications company called NTT Docomo. They were developing a new internet platform. Since it allowed for a limited number of characters, Kurita came up with the idea to replace words with pictures. This would allow people to communicate longer messages while using less data.



Over a decade later, Unicode created a universal standard set of emojis. This meant that people all over the world were using the same emoji dictionary. With everyone "speaking" the same language, emojis easily became a part of our everyday lives.


Did you know that the word "emoji" is based on the Japanese words for "picture" (e) and "character" (moji)? Now that's Jeremy Burge, the founder of the icon reference site Emojipedia, created the holiday in 2014. The day is intended to celebrate the beloved icons that are increasingly used in online messaging. World Emoji Day organizers are asking the public to vote in the World Emoji Awards. July 17 is the one date that is shown in its own emoji. Famously displayed in the Calendar Emoji, this makes July 17 the perfect date for World Emoji Day.

World Emoji Day was created by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge in 2014. Emojipedia is the custodian of this global holiday and is responsible for this very website. Emojipedia serves over 25 million emoji lookups each month and we spend our time updating emoji definitions, tracking emoji changes, and keeping the world informed about the latest emoji additions and approvals.


We love emojis. You love emojis. Let’s celebrate them! The purpose of World Emoji Day

is to promote the use emojis and spread the enjoyment that they bring to all of those around us. Emojis are for all of us. Anyone can join in the celebration using the hashtag. The first World Emoji Day was celebrated on July 17, 2014, and the first tweet about #WorldEmojiDay was on July 11, 2014.


Prior to the existence of World Emoji Day, people would sometimes post the Calendar Emoji on July 17, too! People celebrate World Emoji Day in different ways. Some people hold parties or events, others like to get creative sharing emoji art online. World Emoji Day is an annual unofficial holiday occurring on 17 July, intended to celebrate emoji; in the years since the earliest observance, it has become a popular date to make product or other announcements and releases relating to emoji.

The smiling emoji feels all warm and fuzzy inside. This emoji is used to express positive feelings, from happiness to gratitude to affection. Because of its rosy cheeks, some people use the emoji to convey mild embarrassment. According to Curalate, the most frequently shared emoji on Instagram is the red heart, which is shared 79% more than the next most popular symbol, a smiling face with heart eyes. A kiss-face emoji comes in third place, and the face with tears of joy takes fourth. When people are happy, laughing, excited, and elated, they turn to emojis to emphasize and promote those feelings online.


Check out the top 100 emojis shared on Instagram, and consider how your brand can join the conversation by using the visual language of positivity. Emoji research can shed light on the gendered impacts of COVID-19, offering researchers an important source of information on health crises as they happen in real time.


While people may remain divided on wearing facial coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19 this World Emoji Day, the “face with medical mask” icon has been the go-to emoji for discussing the coronavirus on social media posts. Emojipedia, which tracks emoji trends on Twitter TWTR , put the face mask icon first on its list of the 12 emoji most correlated with the discussion of the coronavirus or COVID-19. The others include the green “nauseated face,” the “face vomiting,” the “sneezing face” and the “face with thermometer,” as well as medical icons like pills and syringes. Lovely.

On 17th July 2021 little Gajerians celebrated World emoji day. students show feelings of happy, sad, angry, confuse, and tired and enjoy a lot.


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