💬 The Wrap
Can you hear the 🔔 Bells? See the 🎆 Fireworks? All the fanfare you might have encountered online makes a whole lot of sense when you remember that it’s World Emoji Day, our global celebration of the internet’s favorite pixelated pictographs that takes place every year on July 17. 📅
We’ve got some of Emojipedia’s biggest site updates and announcements to date, meaning this World Emoji Day is certainly going to be one for the books. 🥳📚
First, we’ve launched a new stickers and emotes library full of all sorts of digital graphics and goodies, and we’ve revived a much-beloved emoji analysis tool to bring real-time emoji insights to the internet again. Plus, you can now fully access all Emojipedia's information in 19 world languages. 🌐🌟
Voting’s still open for one category in the World Emoji Awards, and so are proposals for new emojis, but not for long. ✉️🥇
Additionally, we've explored the emoji timeline on three fronts: in conversation with author Keith Houston where you can win a copy of his new book, an investigation into how the meaning of emoji is a little more amorphous than ever in the modern era, and a deep dive on the history of the Twemoji emoji set.
Finally, to conclude this Emoji Wrap:
- Apple News+ launches a new Emoji Game
- Indian viewers of the F1 movie took aim on Reddit at censorship of an emoji in their country’s version of the film.
- Hiding your child’s face on social media with an emoji might not be a foolproof privacy protector.
- Emojipedia made an appearance in a South African court case about the potential NSFW secret meanings of certain emojis.
- Plus, emojis might be the secret to unlocking relationship success. 🎥👶🏼💗
📰 News
🚀 Emojipedia Launches New Stickers And Emotes Library
One of the brand new features debuting on Emojipedia is a massive new repository of emoji-style stickers and emotes available for downloading, copying, and pasting.
As always, users can generate their own emojis using Emojipedia’s own AI sticker generation tool if they're within an eligible country.
💫 Welcoming Back Emojitracker
The real-time emoji analysis site Emojitracker is back from the internet archives, making its re-emergence amid the festivities of World Emoji Day.
The site, which launched in 2013, historically scraped live Twitter data before it went inactive in 2023 with the X rebrand’s limiting of API access. Now, Emojitracker is back and powered by Emojipedia’s global user base, with support for the nearly 4,000 emojis approved by Unicode.
🗣️ You Can Now Access All Of Emojipedia's Information In 19 Languages
For the past few years, Emojipedia has embarked on a mission to translate our entire site into a much wider world of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and more than a dozen others. The big cross-linguistic debut has finally arrived, and on World Emoji Day no less!
We’ve prepared a handy guide to navigating to and around the new language sites and to changing the default language on Emojipedia.
🗳️ Vote in the World Emoji Awards Before The Day’s End!
Emojipedia’s annual World Emoji Awards have already announced a winner for the Most Popular New Emoji and Lifetime Achievement Award categories for this year.
But it’s not too late to vote for this year’s Most Anticipated Emoji: the one that’s keeping you on the edge of your seat out of all the ones expected to be released later this year in Emoji 17.0.
And users are still voting on the Most 2025 Emoji on X and Instagram; you can join them!
Make your voice heard and vote for the Most Anticipated Emoji and the Most 2025 Emoji before World Emoji Day wraps up, and look out for the winner announcements soon. 🏆
🆕 Unicode Accepting New Proposals Through The End of July
Think you can meet Unicode’s rigorous emoji proposal guidelines to have your emoji idea join the ranks of the over 3,000 others that have been approved since 2010?
You have until July 31 to send your emoji proposal to Unicode, so get them in before time runs out! ⏳
🍏 Apple News+ introduces Emoji Game
To mark World Emoji Day, Apple News+ has launched "Emoji Game", a new daily puzzle that challenges U.S. and Canadian subscribers to complete short phrases using emoji, including Genmoji.
The game features clues, leaderboards, and sharing options, and it will also be available in the upcoming Apple Games app alongside other puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku.
💭 Interesting
📕 We Discuss Major Moments In Emoji History + You Could Win The Book!
Two emoji experts (one our very own editor-in-chief, and both named Keith) have a conversation about the new book from Keith (Houston), "Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji", which frequently cites Emojipedia as it details some of the biggest moments in emoji history.
We also share a whole slate of resources all about emojis over their lifetime, and even explain how you can win a copy of the book!
🤔 Emojipedia Asks Itself: "What Is An Emoji in 2025?"
We use them all the time. They’re essential to internet communication. But how do you define emojis when they’re constantly re-emerging as new iterations of themselves?
Here we do a deep dive into the ever-evolving emoji, from its history to where it’s headed, to try to answer the question: What is an emoji in 2025?
🐦 A Timeline of Twemoji: 2014 - 2025
Twitter’s custom emoji set is just over a decade old, but it’s seen a lifetime’s worth of updates, upgrades, and major milestones, even before recent paradigm-rattling developments for the former “Bird App” led to two parallel versions of the set.
As part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations and to coincide with the relaunch of the once-Twitter-powered EmojiTracker, we’re taking a look back at the ten-plus-year history of the Twemoji design set and its lasting influence.
🏎️ Reddit Reacts To India’s Swap Of The Middle Finger Emoji With The Fist In F1 Movie
Users of Reddit took to the site to flame the Indian Central Board of Film Certification for altering an on-screen visual of a 🖕 Middle Finger emoji in Brad Pitt’s F1 racing movie.
Internet critics said the move to use a 👊 Fist emoji instead of the middle finger was an act of concerning, even “embarrassing” censorship.
⚖️ Emoji Evidence Scrutinized In South African Sexual Harassment Tribunal
Emojipedia was cited by an emoji expert in a South African court proceeding dealing with the interpretation of emojis like the 🍑 Peach and the 🍆 Eggplant as possible euphemisms in a sexual harassment case.
💏 Text Therapy: Study Finds Couples Who Use Emojis In Text Messages Feel Closer
A Guardian article cites a study that says that when two people in a relationship send emojis in their messages, it can actually boost the intimacy in and the strength of the partnership.
Researchers say emojis can convey affection and emotional engagement and serve as alternatives to face-to-face communication when it’s not possible.
🤗 Lastly
Join the World Emoji Day digital party! You can celebrate with us on X (Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Threads or Facebook using the hashtag #WorldEmojiDay.
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