World Emoji Day 📆

#WorldEmojiDay 2025 ✅

📆 Date for your diary: July 17, 2026

For more emoji goodness throughout the year, @emojipedia.org has your back! ✌️

What Is An Emoji In 2025? At Emojipedia, there are no silly questions. Not “Why am I seeing so many 🚡 Aerial Tramway emojis on TikTok?” Or “What does this 👁️👄👁️ mean, and should I be scared?” Or even “What actually is an emoji...

And, finally, we took a deep dive into what emoji even means in 2025. Hopefully the existential crisis sees you through to this time next year ✨

It's been a real one 2025!

blog.emojipedia.org/what-is-an-e...

The emojis your kids are using that you don't understand Wait, the thumbs up means what?

Everyone got in a tiz again about emoji they don't understand, but real ones know that language is always evolving... 🎻 www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbea...

Major Moments In Emoji History: 1995* to 2025 Yesterday, as part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations, we published a detailed history of the Twemoji emoji design set. Now, we’re discussing broader emoji history with Keith Houston, author of ...

The team at @emojipedia.org also had a chat with the man himself, and it was a Keith vs Keith conversation, and a deep-dive on emoji history, ready and waiting for anyone who wants to get into the nitty gritty 🤓 blog.emojipedia.org/major-moment...

Face With Tears of Joy: A natural History of Emoji by Keith Houston review A deep dive into the surprising uses and linguistic shortfalls of the ubiquitous symbols

There were also plenty of reviews for Keith Houston's new book, Face with Tears of Joy, which certainly seems like a good way to make World Emoji Day keep going...

@theguardian.com @shadycharacters.co.uk

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Apple’s new daily puzzle game is basically Emoji Wordle Emoji Game, Apple’s new daily puzzle game, is here to take over your life

🧩 Talking of which, Apple revealed its newest puzzle game, which is largely being reviewed as an 'emoji version of Wordle'. SIGN. US. UP.

@polygon.com

www.polygon.com/news/613453/...

The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot Sorry, “hairy creature.”

We also got a first look at the next batch of emoji to potentially hit your small screens in 2026.

Put your hands in the air for apple core 🙌 🍎

@theverge.com @jaypeters.net

www.theverge.com/news/709179/...

You spoke, the whole world listened. This year's World #Emoji Awards saw some unprecedented drama, with the youngest ever winner for a lifetime achievement award 🫠 and 🫩 snagging not one, but two awards.

Read all about it here worldemojiawards.com/2025/

'I'm Ireland's emoji expert, and one you've never used is about to blow up' Emojis are no longer seen as frivolous but as vital tools for emotional expression in digital conversations, with an Irish expert predicting one overlooked icon is poised to become the next big trend.

Our very own @keithbroni.bsky.social spoke with @dannydevaal.bsky.social l of @irishmirror.bsky.social about how the next viral, underused emoji is just waiting in the wings...

www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-n...

First things first, EmojiTracker is BACK from the internet archives! 📈

Now powered by the @emojipedia.org user base, you can watch super satisfying real-time videos of emoji use — and launch a campaign to help an underused fave 🚀 up the charts...

emojitracker.com?ref=blog.emo...

As the clock ticks over to midnight in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the sun sets on another glorious #WorldEmojiDay, we take a look back at all your need-to-know info from this year's celebrations... 🥳🌅

A bright blue bay, with greeny blue waters. Emoji swimmers and jellyfish swim around.

A sandy beach, with an emoji sun and an emoji palm tree

A turtle swimming among emoji fishes

A line of surfboards

Look at these totally real and absolutely unedited pictures from all these places, still rocking it up for #WorldEmojiDay2025 🌴

Related news — here are all the places it remains July 17 📆 🥳

🇳🇺 Niue
🍞 Baker Island
🇺🇸 Hawaii, USA
🇵🇫 French Polynesia
🇨🇰 Cook Islands

#WorldEmojiDay

If you believe it hard enough, it really is still #WorldEmojiDay somewhere...

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Hello! Thanks for celebrating with us 🐣🥳

Such a cool project! What CAN'T emoji do? 🥰

Gotta be the Goose emoji 🪿🪿🪿

Apparently it's World Emoji Day...

What's your favorite bird emoji?

🦢🦚🦜🐓🐔🐣🐤🦉🐥🐦🐧🕊️🦃🦅🦆

Is anyone really surprised? 😎

ROLL FOR INITIATIVE! 🎲 ⚔️

(dang, we really need d20 emoji - don't we? 👀)

THESE LOOK SO COZY 🤩🧶

shout out to the ✨emoji

Is it okay to send peach emoji to a colleague? How to use emojis in a workplace | The Citizen Employers are advised to establish a policy on how to use emojis to avoid complaints being laid against employees.

Avoid a faux pas at work by learning proper workplace emoji etiquette! (but since we're all friends here...🍑🍑🍑)

www.citizen.co.za/business/is-...

at least one lizard 🦎

alternatively...
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Emoji Mario. That’s the post.
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What emoji do your family members use wrong? 😬

It is a coincidence that ‘emoji’ and ‘emoticon’ sound alike.

‘Emoji’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘pictograph’ (‘e’ is “picture, drawing” + ‘moji’ is “letter, character”).

‘Emoticon’ is ‘emotion’ + ‘icon.’

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Which one is your favorite?