The last few years have not been exactly great for most people. Since the coronavirus came, life has been tough for everyone. However, if we look at the most used emoji, the mood of people has not changed much. The Unicode Consortium says the 10 most used emojis are mostly unchanged compared to 2019. In 2021, the tears of joy emoji dominated again. While many members of Generation Z found this extremely cold, it accounted for five percent of all emoji usage. It was also the best emoji of 2019 and the most tweeted emoji last year.
The Unicode Consortium said the only emoji that has come close to Tears of Joy’s popularity is Red Heart. Here are the rest of this year’s top 10 most used and mostly positive emoticons:
It seems like most of us aren’t super creative in our use of emoji. The top 100 account for around 82 percent of total emoji shares. Smiley and hand-based emojis are generally very popular, such as the plant-flower and emotion (i.e. heart) categories. The least popular emoji category is flags. Country flags are among the least used, although there are more emojis in that category than any other. Given that we’ve endured a pandemic for almost two years, it’s hardly surprising that there has been an increase in the use of health-related emoji. Despite the turmoil humanity has endured lately, it’s heartening to know that our emojis use tendencies of happiness, love, and positivity.
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