Here Are The Most Used Emojis of 2021 - The New York Times

Tears of joy prevailed as the most-used emoji in 2021, despite Gen Z’s stated contempt for it.

2 spot, and the tears of joy emoji ranked No.

To the people who create and study emojis, the persistence of tears of joy, also known as the laughing-crying emoji, comes as no surprise.

“Because of the sheer number of people using emoji, even if one group thinks something is lame, they have to be a really big group to affect these statistics.”.

According to data obtained from Twitter, tears of joy was the most tweeted emoji in 2020, but got bumped down to No.

Daniel added that at the start of the pandemic, people used the microbe, or virus, emoji and the crown emoji to refer to Covid (in Spanish, “corona” translates to “crown”).

“We did see a rise in the use of the virus emoji, but not in a way that even made it remotely into the most-commonly used emojis because we still had plenty to laugh about and plenty to cry about, whether it was because of the pandemic or not,” said Lauren Gawne, co-host of the podcast “Lingthusiasm” and a senior lecturer in linguistics at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia