Tears of Joy Remained Most Used Emoji in 2021

[makitango]

How do they even know this? I thought my messages are secure ?

^this.

As if we needed even more creepy news.

 

[TheLunaPark]

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!

Haha. Better than commenting on everything with ??? like the youths of today do.

 

[Analog Kid]

No one is using this emoji anymore? ??

It appears they're using it more:

Much more.

 

[Hyperchaotic]

As a "youngin Gen Xer" near the Millennial cut off, I consider all emojis to be cancer. If forced to convey any emotion in a message just use old-school : ( or ; ) from the days of AOL chat rooms. Yeap, I'm a snob.

Aren't emoji really just slightly evolved old fashioned emoticons?

 

[Bandaman]

The world needs the pregnant man emoji.

 

[jimbobb24]

They are collecting the data or maybe a survey? Possibly via voting.

Most Anticipated Emoji — World Emoji Awards

worldemojiawards.com

They are collecting the data from non secure platforms like Twitter and generalizing.

This is more interesting and useful as gives magnitude.

emojitracker: realtime emoji use

www.emojitracker.com

 

[MrTangent]

Point taken. Does ICQ also count?

Barely. Just kidding, of course, with my original post. I forgot to use an emoticon (not those God-forsaken emojis).

 

[Loke2112]

How do they even know this? I thought my messages are secure ?

Exactly my thoughts and purpose of checking this forum.

 

[LivingMyBeachLife]

Apple are watching everything we do ??????

So Apple "watching" Android users too? I'm sure this includes both iOS and Android.

 

[Kuckuckstein]

How do they even know this? I thought my messages are secure ?

Exactly my thought … and if they only analyzed the ones where permission was given, then the statistics are dragon dung

 

[Kuckuckstein]

Who are these cat-face users?

Wait - you don’t have five cats at home? ?

 

[MrTangent]

Barely. Just kidding, of course, with my original post. I forgot to use an emoticon (not those God-forsaken emojis).

Argh, it automatically changed my emoticon to an emoji.

 

[CarlJ]

How do they even know this? I thought my messages are secure ?

They’re not looking at your messages (they can’t) and they’re not looking at anything remotely close to every emoji sent on the internet. They’re likely looking at public posts on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other similar places.

 

[CarlJ]

Apple are watching everything we do ??????

That’s your takeaway this article? From the Unicode consortium? That’s almost certainly compiled from public sources like Twitter?

 

[Analog Kid]

Exactly my thought … and if they only analyzed the ones where permission was given, then the statistics are dragon dung

Sample bias in our emoji statistics?! Whatever shall we do! ?

 

[bobtem]

Make up your mind MR, is it "Most used emoji" or "one of the most popular emoji" used in 2021?

You say both ways. But of course, that's what you do at MR – clumsy writing.

 

[contacos]

Tears of joy? I thought this emoji meant so sad/bad you just have to laugh.

I use it when something stupid or "cringe" happened and I have to laugh cry about it.

The other day a friend used it when telling me her grandma died and I was like what, that's not funny and then another friend texted me about that friend and was like "I think xy does not know how to use the emoji correctly ?"

 

[MJaP]

As an early GenX-er I say screw emojis...ASCII art for the win!

 

[quietstormSD]

I expected the eggplant and peach emoji to show up on the list.

 

[svish]

Interesting to see the trends.

 

[MBAir2010]

Oh glad to know. I can finally sleep tonight

just wondering if there is a "tears of pillow drool" emogee?

 

[MozMan68]

I expected the eggplant and peach emoji to show up on the list.

It's from a survey...so take that for what it's worth.

"ummmm...yeah...only heart and kissing emoji for all the texts I send to my wife....I would never use the peach or eggplant emojis...what do those even mean???"

 

[Lemon Mac]

?

 

[TheWatchfulOne]

?

 

[Mousse]

Tears of joy? I thought this emoji meant so sad/bad you just have to laugh.

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.