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.

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 flags.

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. 🤏 📈

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.

As another year enters the annals of history, a new record of global emoji use has been reached. Meanwhile, changes amongst the top ten global emojis continue, though as a whole the world's most popular emojis remain highly stable.

There's an orange heart. A purple heart. A blue one. Even a brown heart. So why no pink heart emoji? For those who have asked this very question, there is good news on the horizon: a pink heart emoji has passed its first hurdles and could now be

Why does a site that informs you that 🍆 Eggplant means “penis” belong in a government-funded library?

As we once again approach the spooky side of October, certain emojis are getting the time to ✨shine✨. Or ✨gLoW eeRIly✨, as the case may be. Halloween emojis [https://emojipedia.org/halloween/] consistently trend on social platforms like Twitter in October, especially for classics like 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern [https://emojipedia.org/jack-o-lantern/

For World Emoji Day in July 2021, Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would introduce a completely new aesthetic [https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/] to the platform's emoji designs. Dubbed the Fluent emoji set, these designs have been much-hyped ahead of today's Windows 11 release. Yet these