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JoyPixels 5.5 Emoji Changelog
Last week the freemium emoji vendor JoyPixels released its latest emoji update, JoyPixels 5.5. The update features new gender neutral emojis, additional combinations of people holding hands, and a...
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Emoji Spelling is Peachy🍑
Spelling out words with emojis is not the most typical use of these tiny images, but it is fascinating.On September 24, 2019, Lizzo tweeted a peach emoji. This is an extremely common emoji for her to...
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The Most Popular New Emojis of 2020
Of the 117 new emojis approved last month, Pinched Fingers, Transgender Flag, and Smiling Face With Tear were the most popular on social media.Least popular? Bucket, Placard, and Elevator.Above:...
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Instagram Switches to Facebook Emoji Designs
Instagram has begun testing a change to how emojis appear on Android phone, with some users now seeing Facebook emoji designs (instead of system-wide emojis provided by Google or Samsung in comments)...
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Hands On With Google's New Emoji Mashups
This week Google released an update to its emoji keyboard allowing emoji mashups within Gboard for the first time. The new functionality allows users to mix and match certain emoji expressions, with...
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Google March 2020 Pixel Feature Drop Emoji Changelog
Google has begun its rollout of support for Emoji 12.1, at least for Pixel owners, providing 168 new emojis to those on Google devices. This update brings the latest gender neutral emojis such as a...
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What's New in Unicode 13.0
The Unicode Consortium has today released version 13 of the Unicode Standard. The release includes 55 new emoji characters and 5,875 non-emoji characters.This follows last month's announcement of the...
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Spread of the Coronavirus Emoji
The number one news story around the world right now is the spread of the latest strain of coronavirus, COVID-19. While we don't have much to say about the spread of the virus itself – let's leave that...
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What the 2021 Unicode Delay Means for Emoji Updates
The Unicode Consortium is delaying Unicode 14.0 by six months due to COVID-19. This means that emojis that would have arrived on phones in 2021 will instead roll out in 2022.Does this mean 2021 will...
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Emojipedia Lookups At All Time High
When Jameela Jamil posted a tweet with a single ‘shocked face’ emoji last week, she didn't expect to see blowback. Much to Jamil's confusion, many responses felt the (since-deleted) single-emoji-tweet...
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Twemoji 12.1.16 Emoji Changelog
Yesterday Twitter begun rollout of a new emoji update: Twemoji 12.1.16. While it doesn't include any new emojis, the update does include subtle changes to 33 previously released emoji designs. Above: a...
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A New King: Pleading Face
In just two short years one emoji has captured our imaginations like no other.Of every 100 tweets sent in April 2020, one of them contained a relative-newcomer on the emoji scene: 🥺 Pleading Face.A...
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Emoji Use in the New Normal
A sentiment analysis performed by Emojipedia finds that positive emoji use is on the decrease, while the total number of emojis sent in our communications continues to rise. Analyzing 68 million unique...
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On Families and Equality
What does equality look like on the emoji keyboard? Much progress has been made in recent years, with emojis that were once white and male[1] now offering a choice of skin tones and equal gender...
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Twemoji 13.0 Emoji Changelog
Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update. Versioned as Twemoji 13.0, this update includes all of the new 2020 emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear, People Hugging, Bubble Tea and the...
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Emojis of #BlackLivesMatter
Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality, Emojipedia experienced a signification increase in lookups of the ✊🏿 Raised Fist with...
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New Emojis in Android 11 Beta
Google has released the Android 11 beta, which includes support for latest emojis. Emoji additions include Smiling Face with Tear and Pinched Fingers. Above: A selection of the emojis designs available...
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JoyPixels 6.0 Emoji Changelog
JoyPixels has released version 6.0 of its freemium emoji set. This update includes the latest batch of new emojis and a wide-ranging series of design changes. All 117 new emojis approved in Emoji 13.0...
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July 17 is World Emoji Day Everywhere Now
Six years ago I decided to create a global holiday, and in 2020 it's still with us: World Emoji Day.In fact, as of this week, the 📅 Calendar emoji now shows July 17 on nearly every major...
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Google Confirms These Classics Are Coming Home
For World Emoji Day, Google has announced a number of classic emojis returning to Android this fall. Promising to "protect this perfect tortoise with our lives" (a reference to the popular pastime of...
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