World Emoji Day: 10 Facts About Emojis We Bet You Didn’t Know

No chat can go without emojis, they have become an inevitable part of our long, deep, flirty, and boring conversations. But ever wondered how the world of emojis came into existence and is there any hidden meaning behind any of those? Discover all the fun and surprising facts about emojis on World Emoji Day here.

World Emoji Day: 10 Unheard Facts That Ain’t Funny At All

1. Emoji Is Not Emoticon

Yes, we all have been assuming that emoji is an acronym for the English word ‘Emoticon.’ The truth is emoji is a combination of two Japanese words that say it is a picture character. But since we express our emotions with these symbols, they gradually got misunderstood as emoticons.

2. Emoji Gained Popularity After A Decade

Today they are the fastest growing language in the world. Apple, Google, Whatsapp, Facebook, and all social media platforms are embedding emojis in their keyboards for a better user experience. But it was not the case when a Japanese programmer Shigetaka Kurita developed the first emoji in 1999.

Other countries took around a decade to adopt these yellow picture characters. Now they are everyone’s favorite.

3. Most Popular And Confusing Emojis

You won’t believe it when we will tell you which the most used emojis in the world is. Any Guesses?

It’s ‘Face with tears of joy’ and that’s not because it’s our favorite but Oxford Dictionary had announced it Word of the year in 2015.

Even the Global Emoji Trend Report 2021 released a day before World Emoji Day says that laugh-out-loud face is very popular among the Gen Z generation. This one was easy to guess but do you know which are the most misunderstood emojis?

• Eggplant symbol because it looks like a vegetable but it has a hidden meaning, adult users know it better
• Second is the cute orange peach which resembles human buttocks
• The third one is still confusing and it is hard to understand what users wanted to convey with it, that’s the clown emoji

4. Museum Of Emojis

There’s a whole place full of your favorite and all kinds of emojis existing till now. It’s in Los Angeles and is popularly known as the Museum of Selfies. Maybe that’s why you didn’t know about it. Well, it’s worth exploring.

5. Gender-Neutral Emojis

The world defines humans based on gender and the same is reflected in everything. Thankfully the world of emojis does not discriminate against people on a gender basis. However, it was not a part of the old emoji set but Apple brought more than 300 gender-neutral emojis for its users later.

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6. Design Inspiration

Those simple-looking characters don’t seem like they needed any inspiration for depicting our emotions. But, the extremely shocked emoji was inspired by an artwork of Edvard Munch. The Scream painting was the source of its inspiration.

7. Pizza Emoji Is Not Pizza

You might have sent this one several times to say you want pizza in lunch but that symbolizes cheese actually. Well, this one was the most surprising fact about emojis.

8. Emoji Can Land You In Trouble

Sound scary? It happened with a teenage boy of America when he posted a handgun emoji on Facebook that landed him at a police station. Maybe that’s the reason why Apple replaced it with a water pistol later.

9. The Emoji Movie

Did you know there’s a movie on emoji? Unfortunately, it didn’t come out that good, and the audience hated it for its plagiarized plot and plain graphics. This was surely one of the interesting facts about emojis.

10. Why Are Emojis Yellow?

We bet nobody has thought about it but the makers spend a lot of time deciding the color. Because there was a huge criticism about the skin tone, lack of diversity, and gender. Finally, they decided yellow for so many reasons, one being yellow as a Color of Happiness.

Emotions reflect better on this color and it’s a mix of people with different skin colors.

Share these interesting facts about emojis with your friends on World Emoji Day and surprise them too.