What’s New on the 10th Annual World Emoji Day

Keith Broni

Jul 17, 2023 • 4 min read

Happy World Emoji Day 2023 - our 10th annual World Emoji Day celebration and Emojipedia 10th birthday! 🌎📅🥳

Here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of the global 2023 celebration - our biggest yet!

🆕 New Emojis

Emoji 15.1 is due for approval this September, and as is now tradition we here at Emojipedia have revealed our sample images showing examples of what might be on phones in 2023-2024.

Emoji 15.1 is to be released in September 2023 and will likely include a Phoenix, a Lime, two shaking heads, and many direction-specific people emojis

Ahead of our 10th #WorldEmojiDay, here are sample designs for every emoji in the final draft list 👇https://t.co/CpdrIDlQGJ pic.twitter.com/49HURFazal
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 13, 2023

🔔 Opening the NYSE

Earlier today The New York Stock Exchange welcomed Zedge (NYSE American: ZDGE) - a global leader in creating platforms for digital self-expression (including Emojipedia!) to celebrate World Emoji Day.

To honor the occasion, Howard Jonas (our Vice Chairman) and Michael Jonas (our Executive Chairman) rang the famed Opening Bell.

The NYSE welcomes @Zedge (NYSE American: $ZDGE) to celebrate #WorldEmojiDay! @Emojipedia | @WorldEmojiDay https://t.co/hoUhTJktBk
— NYSE 🏛 (@NYSE) July 17, 2023

💙 Conscious Alliance Partnership

As part of World Emoji Day 2023, Zedge is contributing to those in need by partnering with Conscious Alliance, a United States-based nonprofit hunger relief organization that unifies bands, brands, artists, and fans to collectively support communities in crisis.

https://t.co/0i27ArCTnY💙#emojipedia #ArtThatFeeds
— Conscious Alliance (@ArtThatFeeds) July 14, 2023

📨 Telegram's Animated Telemojis

Telegram’s animated Telemoji emoji sticker designs are now available to view on Emojipedia. First launched in August of 2019 with just five emojis, the set has grown to over 600 animated designs.

Telegram’s animated Telemoji emoji sticker designs are now available to view on Emojipedia.https://t.co/QA40Ls5vT4 pic.twitter.com/ligNl1DKyB
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 9, 2023

📈 Statistics & Retrospectives

For another year running, we're delighted to announce that global emoji use is at a record-breaking rate, with over 26% of all tweets containing at least one emoji in 2023.

We also graphed the top emojis across different popular categories, such as the smiley emojis shown below.

You can view all of our dynamic graphs here.

We detailed our favorite 10 viral emoji trends from the last 10 years

Ahead of our 10th annual #WorldEmojiDay next Monday, here are our top 10 favorite ✨ v i r a l ✨ emoji moments over the last 10 years 👁👄👁https://t.co/xfQuBz3F1a pic.twitter.com/pjBhBvZ5L5
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 13, 2023

We also outlined 10 of the biggest celebrity-emoji associations since Emojipedia's founding.

As part of #WorldEmojiDay and our 10th birthday celebrations on Monday, we've outlined some of the most prominent celebrity-emoji associations of the last decade 🤠💜https://t.co/3TjTEKpsJr
— Emojipedia (@Emojipedia) July 15, 2023

🏆 World Emoji Awards

The 2023 World Emoji Awards results are in, and here are all the winners!

The Most Anticipated New Emoji from the Emoji 15.1 draft list is the 🙂‍↔️ Head Shaking Horizontally, with the 🍋‍🟩 Lime and 🐦‍🔥 Phoenix Bird coming in second and third place respectively.

After hundreds of votes, you've helped chose the 🏆 #MostAnticipatedEmoji.

🥁 *drumroll*

Head Shaking Horizontally is the new emoji you're most looking forward to using. ✨

good choice gang! 🙌

Learn more about this emoji here: https://t.co/Mzqgpecx0t pic.twitter.com/Jw5eyd1h8W
— World Emoji Awards 🗳🌍🏆 (@EmojiAwards) July 17, 2023

The plain 🩷 Pink Heart emoji is the Most Popular New Emoji across social platforms, followed by the 🫨 Shaking Face.

just revealing ✨ award winning ✨ emoji on live TV. no biggy 🩷 pic.twitter.com/8WS4difbFS
— World Emoji Day 📅 (@WorldEmojiDay) July 17, 2023

The 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing emoji has received this year's Lifetime Achievement Award for being the most popular new emoji added over the last 10 years, as well as being the #2 emoji in the world in 2023.

Ok, this is the big one. The #LifetimeAchievement award for 2023 goes to:

✉️ opens envelope
🥁 *drumroll*
⏱️ dramatic pause...

The 'Rolling on Floor Laughing' emoji: 🤣

A big fan favourite, the most popular new emoji added over the last decade, and still the #2 emoji globally. pic.twitter.com/U2lMmjX2VF
— World Emoji Awards 🗳🌍🏆 (@EmojiAwards) July 17, 2023

Finally, the Most 2023 Emoji is the 🫠 Melting Face, defeating the 2023 Most Popular New Emoji winner the 🩷 Pink Heart in the final. This means that for the first time ever we have had the same emoji win this same award two years in a row, as 🫠 Melting Face was also our Most 2022 Emoji.

We have a winner!
The #Most2023Emoji is: 🫠 Melting Face

This emoji, with its distorted smile, has a sarcastic charm you all clearly love.

It's used literally to talk about extreme heat, and metaphorically for embarrassing moments, such as shame, dread, or feeling overwhelmed. pic.twitter.com/MAsouPh6iX
— World Emoji Awards 🗳🌍🏆 (@EmojiAwards) July 17, 2023

👀 More on World Emoji Day

To see even more of what's been happening, check out the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag on your social platform of choice. Here are just some examples of all the fun different people and businesses have been having as part of our global celebrations!

Can you have a conversation with a friend in only emoji?

Give it a try for #WorldEmojiDay. 👍 pic.twitter.com/adfTVUmwpF
— Apple Support (@AppleSupport) July 17, 2023

Guess the July and August movies from a one emoji clue for #WorldEmojiDay 🔎

1. 💥
2. 🎀
3. 🏃🏻
4. 🐢
5. 🪲
6. 👻
7. 🏎
8. 🦈
— Fandom (@getFANDOM) July 17, 2023

It’s World Emoji Day – can you decipher the characters? pic.twitter.com/wxCFJi6K6D
— James Bond (@007) July 17, 2023

🍪🍫🥦🍽️🌮 https://t.co/lyG4VxEasb
— Cookie Monster (@MeCookieMonster) July 17, 2023

Additionally, check out the official World Emoji Day accounts:

...and of course the websites: