In this short article, I will share with you the most popular and widely used Emoji of 2021. Stay with me.
Depending on the individual typing and message context, Emoji may mean different things at different time.
Covid-19 really transformed how people communicate with each other online. When we are faced with many people to interact and keep up with, it becomes natural to find ways, shorter ways to convey how we feel, what we are thinking and what we doing to our friends, family, and strangers online. When face-to-face interactions is reduced to conversations over social media, emojis will not easily be ignored.
The Year is almost coming to an end, and a lot have happened to make this year one of the unforgettable years of 21 century. In rounding it up, it will be nice to see the most widely emoji we have used and what we can learn from it.
And the winner is ……. LOUDLY CRYING FACE.
Yes Yes Yes…. The Loudly crying face is the most widely used emoji of 2021
The Loudly Crying Face
The loudly crying face is a yellow and open-mouthed
face with tears rolling like stream of water down to its jaws. This emoji is used
to convey strong emotion like sadness, inconsolable grief, tears of joy or uncontrollable laughter.
It has been used to share positivity as well as negative emotions, however, much of its usage in 2021 came mostly from positive context. After all, our world may probably be happier than we were made to believe.
Aside being the foremost emoji of 2021, loudly crying face has made good rankings for the past 2, 3, 4 years.
I believe it’s used in our reaction to very funny comedy skits, videos or memes that deeply touched our sense of humor.
Face With Tears Of Joy
Similar and akin to The Loudly Crying Face, face with tears
of joy came second with tears of joy dropping from its yellow happy face. It shows something is pleasing or amusing
Its wide usage will be attributed to the same reason the loudly crying face made it to the top. Being a closer alternative and milder emotion conveying emoji, face with tears of joy could be used interchangeably with the loudly crying face.
It is probably telling us that a lot of laughing is really happening across social platforms.
Sparkles
Sparkles is an excitement, newness, cleanliness, happiness conveying emoji. Making the third place is indeed not out of place, because, people are always apt to share an excitement on social media than real life.
Imagine hanging out with an old busy friend on a Saturday night, and posting about the great time you had with him or her, Sparkles will be fit to convey how tasty the wine and warmth of friendship you shared with your friend is. So, up sparkles for making it to the third place.
Red Heart
My favorite Red Heart. Universally recognized at once as a sign of affection, romance, love and kindness. This emoji is surprisingly not the most widely used. Love may be in the eyes of the beholder indeed.
It is used mostly to show gratitude and love to people we care about, to thank fans or followers for giving you that thousands of likes, subscriptions, up votes, following
Pleading Face
The “large puppy-dog eyes” emoji can be useful in many cases. It may be used to convey care, anxiety or worry. In the whole, it came 5th place in the most widely used emoji of 2021.
Conclusion
Humans are intelligent being, hence the reason we can understand what some of the emoji we use day-to-day in our discussion mean even without any research.