💬 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. 🎥👶🏼💗

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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.

And for all the latest emoji news and analysis, you can follow Emojipedia on X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok.

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