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 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-54080131], Sea Shanty TikTok

The pandemic may have warped our collective sense of time, but time has always been strange in the emoji world. Starting around April 2020, a cluster of articles popped up exploring the science of how time [https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-time-warp-what-day-is-it/] feels [https://www.vox.com/2020/5/7/

Owners of Google's latest Pixel phones now have access to new 217 new emojis, including a face exhaling [https://emojipedia.org/face-exhaling/] and a heart on fire [https://emojipedia.org/heart-on-fire/], as well as options to mix and match the skin tone of many couple emojis. These come

Emoji use continues to rise with over one in five tweets now containing at least one emoji. While more emojis are being used now than ever, the rate of growth has slowed in 2020. In the middle of a year where the 🦠 Microbe emoji [https://emojipedia.org/microbe/] saw a

There's a lot. Depending on exactly how broad you consider a Christmas emoji list [https://emojipedia.org/christmas/] to be, this is what we've come up with as of December 2020: * 👶 Baby [https://emojipedia.org/baby/] * 👼 Baby Angel [https://emojipedia.org/baby-angel/] * 🎅 Santa Claus [https://emojipedia.

Jennifer Daniel leads emoji efforts at Google [https://blog.google/inside-google/googlers/she-word/emo-gee-s-cool-job-meet-woman-who-designs-googles-emoji/] , and in 2020 became Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Jennifer joined me on the most recent episode of Emoji Wrap – Emojipedia's emoji podcast – to share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities ahead

The latest version of WhatsApp for Android includes new emojis such as Smiling Face with Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/] and Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/]. This follows an update in recent months where support was provided new gender neutral emoji support. Above: all of the new emojis featured

You've heard of 🎅 Santa Claus [https://emojipedia.org/santa-claus/] and perhaps 🤶 Mrs. Claus [https://emojipedia.org/mrs-claus/], but how about 🧑‍🎄 Mx. Claus [https://emojipedia.org/mx-claus/]? As we approach the end of 2020, most major emoji vendors now support Emoji 13.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/]: the

New emojis are now available for all iPhone and iPad users, with today's release of iOS 14.2. For the first time those on Apple platforms can now send new emojis such as 🤌 Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/], 🫂 People Hugging [https://emojipedia.org/people-hugging/], and 🥲 Smiling Face

Long used as an emoji to imply sickness, the mask-wearing emoji [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-medical-mask/] saw a revival in 2020 as one of the most popular emojis used in tweets about Coronavirus [https://blog.emojipedia.org/spread-of-the-coronavirus-emoji/]. But why does it have to look so...sick? If mask-wearing is to

The wait is nearly over for iOS users: bubble tea, a transgender flag, seal, feather and more emojis are included in the latest iOS beta. 🚨 Update November 2020: iOS 14.2 has been released to the public and here is what's new. [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-2-emoji-changelog/] iOS

217 new emojis have been approved and will come to devices throughout 2021. Additions include a heart on fire [https://blog.emojipedia.org/117-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2020/], face in the clouds [https://emojipedia.org/face-in-clouds/], a woman with a beard [https://emojipedia.org/woman-beard/], and new mixed skin tone options for couples [https:

Samsung's Android software layer One UI now supports the latest emojis, for any devices setup to receive One UI version 2.5. Alongside 116 brand new emojis, this update includes a sizable number of design changes, with many of these being new gender neutral designs for previously-released people

The most frequent question asked of Emojipedia is when are the new emojis coming to iPhone? Answer: Not in iOS 14.0. Some of the more popular emojis coming to iOS in 2020 include emojis for Bubble Tea [https://emojipedia.org/bubble-tea/], Seal [https://emojipedia.org/seal/], Transgender Flag [https:

Google has today begun rolling out its latest OS update, Android 11.0. Included in this new release are 117 brand new emojis and a significant number of design changes, several of which are heavily inspired by popular designs of the past. Above: all 117 new emojis included in Android

In fall 2020, a new baby is coming to town. That baby is the swaddled and bottlefed bundle in Person Feeding Baby [https://emojipedia.org/person-feeding-baby/], and that town is your emoji keyboard. Above: Person, woman, and man bottle feeding baby. Images: Google.Unicode’s approval of Person Feeding Baby

For the longest time, Samsung phones had an emoji quirk that resulted in two emojis being mixed up. For the longest time, 🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U [https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u/] appeared on Samsung phones as the letter V. Likewise, 🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V [https://emojipedia.org/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-v/] appeared

New emojis will be approved in late 2020, resulting in platform support in 2021. With Unicode 14.0 delayed due to Coronavirus [https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-the-2021-unicode-delay-means-for-emoji/], a minor emoji release known as Emoji 13.1 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.1/] will fill the gap for phone users in 2021.

Every year new emojis get approved, but sometimes its worth looking back at how well they are recieved. 398 new emojis were approved in 2019, a large number mostly due to the skin tone variations for the various people holding hands. For World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com], Emojipedia has

New emojis are coming to iOS this year, and for World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com] Apple has revealed to Emojipedia its first preview of how these will look. 🚨 Update November 2020: iOS 14.2 has been released to the public and here is what's new. [https://blog.

For World Emoji Day, Google has announced a number of classic emojis returning to Android this fall. Promising to "protect this perfect tortoise with our lives" (a reference to the popular pastime of reviewing emoji designs [https://staff.tumblr.com/post/153541214160/official-ranking-of-every-turtle-emoji-on] on Tumblr), Google has indicated

Six years ago I decided to create a global holiday, and in 2020 it's still with us: World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com]. In fact, as of this week, the 📅 Calendar emoji [https://emojipedia.org/calendar/] now shows July 17 on nearly every major platform: Above: 📅 Calendar [https:

JoyPixels has released version 6.0 of its freemium emoji set. This update includes the latest batch of new emojis and a wide-ranging series of design changes. All 117 new emojis approved in Emoji 13.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/] are included in JoyPixels 6.0 [https://emojipedia.org/

Google has released the Android 11 beta [https://developer.android.com/preview/] , which includes support for latest emojis. Emoji additions include Smiling Face with Tear [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-tear/] and Pinched Fingers [https://emojipedia.org/pinched-fingers/]. Above: A selection of the emojis designs available in the latest Android 11 beta.

Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality, Emojipedia experienced a signification increase in lookups of the ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone emoji [https://emojipedia.org/raised-fist-dark-skin-tone/]. > Trending: ✊🏿 Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone https://t.co/RYrQjh8jlz #BlackLivesMatter