World Emoji Day

What's New On World Emoji Day 2025 🌎🥳📅

Happy World Emoji Day 2025! Emojipedia's annual celebration of all things emoji is now in its twelfth year, and here's a quick rundown of what's been happening as part of this year's celebration! 🌎📅🥳

Keith Broni

Jul 17, 2025 • 4 min read

🚀 Emojipedia Launches New Stickers & Emotes Library

One of the brand new features debuting on Emojipedia is a massive new repository of emoji-style stickers and emotes available for downloading, copying, and pasting.

As always, users can generate their own emojis using Emojipedia’s own AI sticker generation tool if they're within an eligible country.

💫 Emojitracker Is Back

The real-time emoji analysis site Emojitracker is back from the internet archives, making its re-emergence amid the festivities of World Emoji Day.

The site, which launched in 2013, historically scraped live Twitter data before it went inactive in 2023 with the X rebrand’s limiting of API access. Now, Emojitracker is back and powered by Emojipedia’s global user base, with support for the nearly 4,000 emojis approved by Unicode.

🌐 You Can Now Access All Of Emojipedia's Information In 19 Languages

For the past few years, Emojipedia has embarked on a mission to translate our entire site into a much wider world of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and more than a dozen others. The big cross-linguistic debut has finally arrived, and on World Emoji Day no less!

We’ve prepared a handy guide to navigating to and around the new language sites and to changing the default language on Emojipedia.

🏆 World Emoji Award Winners

Earlier this week, Emojipedia’s annual World Emoji Awards announced winners for the Most Popular New Emoji and Lifetime Achievement Award categories for this year.

Today, however, we can announce that the Most Anticipated Emoji is the distorted face, followed by the "fight cloud" symbol and the apple core.

You can read more about the upcoming inclusions in Emoji 17.0 here.

Additionally, our Most Popular New Emoji is also our Most 2025 Emoji: the 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes

🍏 Apple News+ introduces Emoji Game

To mark World Emoji Day, Apple News+ has launched "Emoji Game", a new daily puzzle that challenges U.S. and Canadian subscribers to complete short phrases using emoji, including Genmoji.

The game features clues, leaderboards, and sharing options, and it will also be available in the upcoming Apple Games app alongside other puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku.

📕 We Discuss Major Moments In Emoji History + You Could Win The Book!

Two emoji experts, both named Keith, have a far-ranging conversation about the new book from Keith (Houston), "Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji", which frequently cites Emojipedia as it details some of the biggest moments in emoji history.

We also share a whole slate of resources all about emojis over their lifetime, and even explain how you can win a copy of the book!

🤔 Emojipedia Asks Itself: "What Is An Emoji in 2025?"

We use them all the time. They’re essential to internet communication. But how do you define emojis when they’re constantly re-emerging as new iterations of themselves?

Here we do a deep dive into the ever-evolving emoji, from its history to where it’s headed, to try to answer the question: What is an emoji in 2025?

🐦 A Timeline of Twemoji: 2014 - 2025

Twitter’s custom emoji set is just over a decade old, but it’s seen a lifetime’s worth of updates, upgrades, and major milestones, even before recent paradigm-rattling developments for the former “Bird App” led to two parallel versions of the set.

As part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations and to coincide with the relaunch of the once-Twitter-powered EmojiTracker, we’re taking a look back at the ten-plus-year history of the Twemoji design set and its lasting influence.

👀 More on World Emoji Day

The more playful side of World Emoji Day isn't generally covered in detail here on Emojipedia. To see what's been happening, the best place is the #WorldEmojiDay hashtag on your social platform of choice.

Or check out the official World Emoji Day accounts:

...and of course the websites: