World Emoji Day – 17 July

World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17 every year. The date was chosen by Emojipedia due to the Calendar emoji on iOS showing this date. Emojis have actually been used since the beginning of the internet however their popularity has increased on a massive scale with the modern-day smartphone having then built into our messaging dashboards, well-known emoji merchandise on sale around the world and even an emoji movie is made in honor of them.

World Emoji Day was founded in 2014 by Jeremy Burge, who is also the founder of Emojipedia, an emoji reference website. The World Emoji Day website says about choosing July 17, “This is the date that iCal for Mac was first announced at MacWorld Expo in 2002. We now use this for World Emoji Day.

Emojis emerged from emoticons – and along with other forms of paralanguage such as all caps for shouting – in the dark days of Nokia 3310s, bulletin board systems, and internet relay chat. With digital text, suddenly we could write quick, impulsive messages and expect quick, impulsive responses.

To celebrate the tiny characters that forever changed the way we communicate and have invaded our text messages, emails, and social media. They have a language, which actually can be more specific than words. It started as an online holiday and now here it is, in the real world. With the tap of a button, we can use a digital shorthand to convey a level of emotion that plain text just can’t match.

Along with smileys and love hearts, there are 3,304 emojis in the Unicode Standard – including sequences for gender and skin tone – and there’s no sign of slowing down with new emojis released regularly following a strict approvals process.

The old saying “a picture tells a thousand words” has never been more true. Five billion emojis are sent daily on Facebook Messenger and 900 million messages are sent using emojis with no text at all.

The explosion in popularity of the pictograms meant that representing different cultures and religions has always been a key issue for the Unicode Consortium, a group of technology firms that decides which new emojis to add each year.

To celebrate the day the Empire state building gets lit yellow, crowds from all over the globe set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people simultaneously dressed as emoji faces.

iOS 14 is including new Memoji customizations including revamped facial and muscle structure to make them even more expressive.

The new emojis include: > Dodo> Nesting Dolls> Pinata> Tamale> Pinched Fingers> Boomerang> Ninja> Coin> Anatomical Heart> Beaver> Transgender Symbol> Bubble Tea> Lungs.

This means users will have more ways to send a range of emotions and express themselves in Messages. There are also 11 new hairstyles, including man bun, top knot, simple side part, waves, and enhancements to fades, and new face coverings. The new headwear options will also let you show off your style, hobby, or profession with 19 new styles, including a durag, tichel, cyclist helmet, nurse cap, or swim cap.

Brands are generally laser-focused on assessing their reputations among the audiences they care most about. Emojis help you calibrate stakeholder sentiment in a different way. In fact, they can actually refine a company’s ability to correctly identify the sentiment of a tweet.

Emojis are more than cute and fun visuals. They provide an instant snapshot of a brand’s perception, resonance, and relevance in the marketplace so much so that they amount to a global, pictographic language.

How to celebrate

Take the opportunity to jump online and post your favorite emojis with pride. Not sure how you can take part? The following are just a few ways you can embrace World Emoji Day.

Hold an emoji party! The only requirement? Everyone has to come dressed as their favorite emoji.
Include #WorldEmojiDay in all your tweets on July 17th. This way, everyone will know!
Communicate using only emojis. Late for work or out on a first date? Try using just emojis to tell your story.

World Emoji Day 2021 Quotes

My emoji vocabulary is pretty limited to, like, the smiling poop and the rainbow and a unicorn or something. – Bob Morley
What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We’re combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat – what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.– Howie Mandel
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it’s all in code in a language I totally don’t understand. – Bill Engvall
I am emoji-heavy as hell. I would use the same emoji 140 times just to communicate how excited I am. – Frankie Grande

I use emoji in every sentence, after all, it shows my emotions right? – Nancy Gibbs
‘LOL’ is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don’t have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. – John McWhorter
Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals. – Jenna Wortham
I text nonstop, and I love emojis. I’m also on the phone quite a bit for work – probably more than 10 calls per day. – Evan Spiegel

World Emoji Day 2021 Wishes

When words fall short, emojis make up for it and make others feel the same. – Happy world emoji day!
You can change your expression faster than ever with all the emojis in your message thread! Happy World Emoji Day!

On this world emoji day, let us take a moment to use them more efficiently and add smiles to others with its use.
Life has become a lot easier with the coming of emojis. An entire sentence is easily replaced with just an emoji and yet leaving the same impact. Happy world emoji day

Sending lots of hugs your way on this World Emoji Day! I am because I believe in the Power of a smile.
Now that emojis are so popular and have made texting a lot more convenient, we cannot think of a day without it. Happy world emoji day

When words fall short, emojis make up for it and make others feel the same. Happy World Emoji Day!
On this world emoji day, let us take some time to praise this amazing innovation that certainly saved us plenty of keystrokes.

Expressions get the best reflection with the help of emojis! Let us take some time and praise this amazing concept of emojis. – Happy World Emoji Day!

Be thankful that emoji came into existence and saved the effort of typing the lengthy replies to all those forwards which are drab. Happy World Emoji Day!