Tears of Joy Remained Most Used Emoji in 2021

[Analog Kid]

A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces
truer than those that are so washed. How much
better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
-- Much Ado About Nothing Act I sc i

Well Leonato, judging from the demographic, I'd say 4x better.

And that just raised the sophistication of this conversation, considerably!

 

[bluespark]

As an “elder Millennial” near the Gen X cut off, I’ve been told the ? is only used by old, uncool people.

But since I’m uncool, I have no idea what to use in its place!

Not correct. I can confirm its coolness.

 

[dysamoria]

Tears of joy? I thought it was laughing so hard it causes tears.

 

[FelixDerKater]

Who knew? I thought it was an upright LOL emoji.

 

[MarvinK9]

At least 10 times a day I wished to use pregnant man ... FINALLY

I assumed it was "man with beer gut"

But then I has no idea the one this article is about was "years of joy" - looks like "laughing so hard I'm crying" to me.. but apparently you can only do that on a 45 degree angle ?

 

[MarvinK9]

Messages probably don't have to be "read" to extract that info. They could simply count the number of occurrences of all / specific characters, wouldn't really reveal much, similar to the number of times a button is pressed (which are almost always extensively tracked for a lot of reasons).

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not suggesting Apple do this. It's just "how I would do it" in a secure way that still gave me a good usage picture.

They can't count a specific character unless they do it with an unencrypted message - that's the point. The messages are encrypted end-to-end in iMessage. This data must come from public postings.

 

[yukari]

Seems like everything is being tracked...

 

[I7guy]

Tears of Joy continued to be one of the most popular emoji used worldwide in 2021, according to the Unicode Consortium's list of the top emoji used throughout the year.

The ? emoji accounts for over five percent of all emoji use, and the only other emoji that comes close is the heart emoji (❤️).

Other top emoji in 2021 included rolling on the floor laughing face, thumbs up, loudly crying face, hands pressed together, face blowing kiss, face with hearts, face with heart eyes, and smiling face, or in emoji: ? ❤️ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?.

The most popular emoji haven't changed much over the past couple of years, and in fact, crying laughing face and red heart were also the top two emoji in 2019, which was the last time that the Unicode Consortium shared emoji data. Other emoji on the list have shifted position and there are a few that are new to the top 10 list, such as thumbs up and face with hearts.

The Unicode Consortium also broke emoji down by category to discover the top used smileys, people emoji, symbols, clothing, animals, travel emoji, objects, and food emoji, with graphs of the frequency of use available on the Unicode Consortium website.

Party popper is the most popular event emoji, for example, followed by balloon and gift. Fire is the most popular weather emoji, unsurprisingly, and the most popular plant emoji is the rose. The butterfly is the most used bug emoji, and rabbit face is the most used mammal emoji.

Of the clothing emoji, the crown is the most popular, and the birthday cake is by far the most popular sweet food emoji. Hot beverage is the most popular drink emoji, and in the fruit category, strawberry takes the top spot.

More on the most popular emoji in 2021 can be found through the Unicode Consortium's full 2021 emoji breakdown.

Article Link: Tears of Joy Remained Most Used Emoji in 2021

Is this a wet finger in the air? How is this usage determined? Poll the public?

 

[NorthCarolina]

When will we get the combination of these two? ?? Will save the earth some 10 billion man hours in just saving the extra click given current world events

Here ya go.

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

They can't count a specific character unless they do it with an unencrypted message - that's the point. The messages are encrypted end-to-end in iMessage. This data must come from public postings.

The end-to-end encryption will only happen between sending and receiving. The message needs to be not encrypted before it's sent... otherwise you couldn't read it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There is no privacy, security, or ethical reason around why counting characters used would be an issue.