Earlier this month the popular Chinese social platforms Sina Weibo and WeChat both took their annual measures to disuade any commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. These measures once again included removing select emojis from their respective emoji keyboards, such as their [蜡烛] candle design. This annual censorsip of

Real-time emoji analysis website Emojitracker has now tracked over 35 billion tweets. Created by Matthew Rothenberg in 2013, Emojitracker launched just two weeks ahead of Emojipedia and supported all 842 emojis available as part of Unicode 6.0. 💫 Emojitracker launch: July 4, 2013📙 Emojipedia launch: July 17, 2013As of today,

Twitter has begun to rollout its latest emoji update, Twemoji 13.1. The update includes new emojis such as the heart on fire, the face in clouds, and large-scale skin tone support for couples and people kissing. Above: the 217 new emojis released in Twemoji 13.1. Notably, Twemoji 13.

WhatsApp's latest betas releases includes a new flag emoji design: the Refugee Nation Flag. Based on a 2015 design by a Syrian refugee, the flag is an unofficial banner of displaced persons the world over. However, it is not currently recommended for emoji support by the Unicode's Emoji Subcommittee. Above:

It's a small but persistent emoji query: one that finds new life whenever there's a new development in the "stonks" discourse: why is the upward line on 📈 Chart Increasing displayed in the seemingly-counterintuitive color red? The answer to this question is actually quite simple, but is an excellent

Today Apple has released iOS 14.6, just a few weeks after unveiling a large number of new emojis in iOS 14.5. While today's update doesn't feature any further new emojis, it does update apperance of the people climbing emojis, and could well be the last Apple emoji update

Following their I/O 2021 keynote earlier today, Google release their first public beta for Android 12. Included within the beta are changes to hundreds of existing emoji designs, with a particular focus on food, drinks, objects, and nature. Above: a comparison of several emoji designs as they appear between

The emoji keyboard has been a mainstay across our phones and tablets for over a decade, but today it can be easily accessed across a broad range of devices. One such platform is Sony's PlayStation 5 gaming console. The PS5 features full emoji support via its own custom-designed emoji font.

The way Apple's emoji font works has seen an upgrade in recent times, with new functionality paving the way for more emoji combinations than ever. iPhone users with the recent iOS 14.5 update might have noticed just how many new couples there are in the list. Most of these

Apple has released iOS 14.5 which brings new emojis such as heart on fire and a face in clouds to all iPhone and iPad users, as well as a vaccine-friendly redesign of the syringe emoji. Also new in this update are gender options for people with beards and numerous

Twitter appears to be teasing a brand new style for the Twemoji emoji set: one that would be a significant depature from their current flat designs. Shown with a highly detailed and realistic appearance, these updated graphics are closer in style to what can be seen in emoji sets from

We've looked TikTok previously, with a focus on creative ways people comment using emojis. What is less clear is how to use the 'hidden' or secret emojis available on the short video platform. These might be better called emotes, stickers or emoticons, but just as commonly people call them TikTok

To be clear, despite the date of publishing, this is not an April Fool's joke. There's a new top emoji in town. After years of dominance the laughing crying emoji has been dethroned as Twitter's top emoji. In its place today is another teary-eyed smiley: 😭 Loudly Crying Face. This is

Twitter has begun rollout of its latest emoji update which includes an updated version of the syringe emoji. The new syringe design comes as part of Twemoji 13.0.2 and aligns with changes announced by Apple and Google in recent weeks: blood contained within the barrel has been removed,

It’s been one year since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Strict preventative measures were introduced in many nations across the world, and usage of previously-uncommon emojis jumped exponentially as people took to Twitter to grapple with what was going on. What we see one year

Google's Gmail service was one of the first platforms with emoji support, dating back to 2008. However, the platform’s emoji support within browsers has been neglected over the last number of years. This means that emails viewed in the Gmail web interface don't properly display emoji skin tone and

Popular Chinese messaging app WeChat has recently updated a number of emojis, including ditching the cigar from a smoking soldier. Other changes include a smiley face being hit by a frying pan instead of a hammer, and the removal of blood from the meat cleaver. Above: WeChat no longer shows

The 💉 Syringe emoji has been updated to remove the blood, allowing this existing emoji serve as a vaccination emoji in 2021. New emojis and new vaccines have more in common than might first meet the eye. Both require oversight from various committees, take years to approve, and these result in

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the latest iOS 14.5 beta. These include a heart on fire, exhaling face, and gender options for the people with beards. Update: iOS 14.5 is out now and includes these emojis, and some additional non-standard additions. See which emojis

It's long been both the most popular yet most hated face on the emoji keyboard. You already know which one I'm talking about. 😂 Face with Tears of Joy. More colloqueally known as the laughing crying emoji, this face found something so funny, a tear is being shed from each eye.

Questions about heart emojis are very common, and this makes a lot of sense. No-one wants to be accused of giving the wrong impression, nor step over some kind of line of emoji familiarity. Does the blue heart mean platonic love and the green heart represents jealousy? Is there a

Happy year of the 🐂 Ox! Or is that the 🐄 Cow or 🐃 Water Buffalo? Either way, there's an emoji for that. In 2021 Chinese New Year falls on February 12. This marks the end of Year of the Rat and the start of Year of the Ox. The order progresses as

Today JoyPixels has releases the latest incarnation of its Unicode compliant emoji set: JoyPixels 6.5. New additions include a Face in Clouds and a Mending Heart, alongside the considerable number of design changes across existing gesture and symbol emojis. Above: All the new emojis in JoyPixels 6.5. JoyPixels

Seen a funny video on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter recently? Chances are it's from TikTok. You're consuming TikTok content, but out of its natural habitat. No matter whether people are talking about Pool Cleaning TikTok, Sea Shanty TikTok, or Musical Theatre TikTok the focus is usually on the video content,