In case you didn’t know, tomorrow is World Emoji Day. Yes, it seems there’s a holiday for everything these days. Though perhaps more surprising is the fact that there’s a global council, the Unicode Consortium, which must approve the launch of new emojis. Or the fact that Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 Word of the Year was actually an emoji, the year’s most popular: face with tears of joy.
While this year saw the release of 230 new emojis, including a guide dog, a flamingo and an oyster, according to an article by the World Economic Forum, that perpetually laughing face is a perennial favorite, topping the list of most popular on Twitter, Facebook and Messenger.
We’re sure it’s popped up in messages between Chatter contributor Dana Shavin and her husband, Daryl Thetford. For July’s issue, we asked them to try out and compare different virtual messaging platforms, Facebook Messenger included. Her response? A face with tears of joy or was it laughter?