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They add 2.832 to be exact. There are faces, flags, travels, mythological characters, fairies, food, celebrations, technology and even excrement. These are graphics that express feelings and often replace words. Platforms and social devices have very well understood how to include them in their offer. And it's the emojis that got us hooked when we showed something through WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter.
And can we imagine, in these times, a sad faceless conversation or a happy face? A day like yesterday, fourteen years ago, World Emoji Day is commemorated, a celebration proposed by its creator, Jeremy Burge, who chose this day because the drawing that recreates a calendar at that date recorded in its design for Android and for iOS. These fun icons have their own rules and are becoming a language in itself.
According to Facebook data, of all these drawings, at least 2,300 are used daily in their fields. In fact, only in Messenger (the chat of this social network) every day is sent 900 million emojis without being accompanied by text, as a message in itself, a fact that supports the idea that this form of communication came to stay And although yesterday was his day, in fact the day most people use these drawings is the New Year.
In such a context, according to Gboard statistics (virtual keyboard of Google for Android and iOS), the most used in the Spanish language are: face with red heart eyes, playful face with sunglbades and hearts alone.
However, all over the world, the crying emoticon is the most popular laughter Although it is not one of the original models and has entered our lives relatively recently, it has won the trusted millions of users and has held the top positions in different operating systems and social networks for years. This is reflected in the Emojitracker web, which tracks in real time the use of emojis on Twitter: this page counts for more than 2,100 million appearances since 2013, year of founding of the page by American hacker Matthew Rothenberg, as revised by the Spanish newspaper ABC.
On the other hand, the popular apple company did not want to miss the opportunity to surprise its consumers in this very special holiday. And that's why he'll add to his already extensive catalog of cartoons, more than 70 new models that include not only people with different hairstyles or expressions, but also new animal emojis or fruits. This initiative, which was reported in Apple's official blog, states that "the new characters will arrive on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac later this year, in a free software update".
pioneer in the creation of these emoticons. However, his trajectory comes from far away. It was in the 90s and Japan when they started to create this type of drawings, causing a real fury among the Japanese people. But, according to the Bazaar digital magazine, it would be the American technological giant, almost two decades later, who would popularize these icons in the West through the pen of Burge
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The most used icons in the world
According to the web Emojitracker and the ABC newspaper, as already mentioned, this list presides over the face with an intense laugh that overflows with tears. In second position, although far from smiling face, lies the heart, with more than a billion appearances in the social network of the little bird. They are followed by the recycling icon (the surprise of this ranking), the face with the hearts in the eyes, the hearts letter and the crying emoticon until the tears alive.
In seventh position is the smile and the octave, which is he can consider his antithesis: the icon that, according to the Emojipedia, is considered "dissatisfaction" or "grumpy look". In the ninth position, the hearts reappear, with two pink icons of different sizes, and by closing the list of "top ten", we kiss it with a heart.
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