A series of videos featuring Emojipedia have been going viral across Tiktok, most of which hone in on the unique, detailed, and occasionally over-the-top emoji designs from the emojidex vendor set. @affonsor 👽. #meme #memes #memestiktok #gigachads #gigachad👊 ♬ som original - Affonsor Almost all of these videos feature the hashtag #gigachad,

A Twitter bot is sharing different designs from Google's popular Emoji Kitchen feature within Gboard, which allows users to combine different emoji designs and send them as stickers. It joins the ranks of many other emoji-based bots on the platform. Hello! Welcome to Emoji Kitchen Bot! Combine any two emoji

Happy World Emoji Day! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its ninth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of the 2022 celebration! 🌎📅🥳 💖 New EmojisEmoji 15.0 is due for approval this September, and what better time than World Emoji Day

Today, on World Emoji Day 2022, JoyPixels have released version 7.0 of their freemium emoji set. The update includes emojis such as 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, and 🫶 Heart Hands, as well as the considerable number of design changes that has come be expected of major JoyPixels update. All of

Today, ahead of World Emoji Day 2022, Emojipedia now includes the animated 3D Fluent emoji designs found within Microsoft Teams. Originally previewed just prior to World Emoji Day 2021, the 3D Fluent set has an additional striking feature: over 800 of the designs are animated. Microsoft Fluent Emoji from Microsoft

A Shaking Face, two pushing hands, and a plain Pink Heart. These are just some of the emojis that are up for approval this September. Ahead of World Emoji Day, Emojipedia has created sample designs for each candidate emoji. While some might not make the cut, most presented for approval

With World Emoji Day 2022 only 5️⃣ days away, we here at Emojipedia are rolling out a new, globally-focused feature for our site: support for five new languages. As of today, users can experience Emojipedia in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This means that our users can now navigate

Ahead of World Emoji Day this coming Sunday (July 17), the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp will be updating its emoji reactions feature for both iOS and Android devices. This new update will allow users to react to messages with any emoji included within their emoji keyboards.

Last year, ahead of World Emoji Day 2021, we revealed that emoji use on Twitter had reached a ten-year high. Today, with one week to go before our World Emoji Day 2022 celebrations, Emojipedia can reveal that emoji use on the microblogging platform has experienced another record-breaking increase. As shown

The ninth annual World Emoji Day is just nine days away, as as part of our global hosting duties Emojipedia will be debut a series of interview-focused videos exploring emojis from several different angles, together titled "Emojis Across The World". Editors Note: the first of our Emojis Across The World

Earlier this year, South Korean financial technology company Toss (토스) debuted its own emoji design set. Initially launched with a series of intentionally divergent designs, the set has since been updated to accurately reflect Unicode recommendations, with both of these sets now viewable on Emojipedia. Toss' emoji set, which the

Last week Google launched a brand new emoji-focused font: Noto Emoji. Monochrome and minimalist, the font renders emojis as simply as possible and also introduces a series of new blob-inspired designs. The entire set is now viewable on Emojipedia. While announcing the launch of Noto Emoji font, Google's Jennifer Daniel

Facebook has begun rolling out a new emoji update, introducing the likes of 🫠 Melting Face, 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears, and 🫶 Heart Hands to the platform while also updating the existing 🤭 Face with Hand Over Mouth and 💉 Syringe emoji designs. These emojis are for Meta's Facebook and Messenger platforms and will

WhatsApp have today released a new update for their Android messaging app, bringing support for new emojis like 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, 🫶 Heart Hands, and 🪩 Mirror Ball with the app's native emoji set. A total of 107 new emojis have been introduced in today's this update, formally titled WhatsApp for

The melee for emoji glory continues on Twitter, as the historically dominant 😂 Face with Tears of Joy and the 😭 Loudly Crying Face have once again swapped places. This comes ten years to the month when 😂 Face with Tears of Joy first emerged as the platform's top emoji and one year

Today Unicode has opened submissions for Emoji 16.0, meaning people from around the world can propose new emojis for inclusion in our global emoji keyboards. However, there won't be any new pride flags, language flags, color-based flags, or other “non-geographical” flags coming to the emoji keyboard in Emoji 16.

Apple has today released iOS 15.4, introducing brand new emojis such as the Melting Face, Saluting Face, Heart Hands, and Beans to iPhone and iPad users. In total, this update has added 123 new emoji designs to Apple's emoji keyboard, including all 112 emojis that were approved as part

Twitter has begun to roll out Twemoji 14.0, which provides support for new smileys emojis like the 🫠 Melting Face and 🫡 Saluting Face, as well as support for a variety of mixed skin tone 🤝 Handshake emojis. No previously released emojis have been visibly updated in Twemoji 14.0, though a

Twitter has rolled out a small new emoji update: Twemoji 13.1.1. Several existing emoji designs have been updated, including 🤝 Handshake and 🔋 Battery emojis, both of which will have complimentary new emojis arriving in Emoji 14.0. EDITOR'S NOTE: Twitter has since released Twemoji 14.0, which includes new

Over the last number of weeks Samsung has been quietly rolling out a small emoji update with a big implication: the design of incredibly popular ✨ Sparkles emoji now matches that of other major emoji vendors. Prior to this update, the ✨ Sparkles emoji has maintained the same design across each of

Less than a year since the 😭 Loudly Crying Face took the top spot on Twitter, the oft-maligned but ever-present 😂 Face with Tears of Joy is once again the platform's number one emoji by the slimmest of margins. 🤏 📈 However, as we can see above, this is more due to the 😭 Loudly

This week marks the beginning of a new year within the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar, and we here at Emojipedia would like to wish all that celebrate Chinese New Year a very happy year of the 🐅 Tiger! There are two different tiger emojis within the emoji keyboard: the full-bodied 🐅 Tiger

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 15.4 beta. These include a melting face, pregnant man, mirror disco ball, and multi-racial handshake emojis. Editor's Note: iOS 15.4 is out now. Read more about the official release. The new emojis included in this beta

Emojipedia, the world's most popular emoji resource, has a new set of eyes (👀). Keith Broni takes over as Editor in Chief of Emojipedia effective February 1, 2022. I couldn't be more pleased to have someone as thoughtful and capable as Keith leading Emojipedia into the future. 👋 Meet KeithKeith first started