And for all you text Tay DM sliding messaging addicted
viewers. Today is World Emoji Day and to celebrate
new senior reporter Michelle Castillo is here to tell us
all about the holiday and everything else in the emoji
verse Michelle. Great to see you. So why
is today World Emoji Day? What is it today
? Is World Emoji Day? Hannah? Because,
well, the emoji declared it. So take a
look at that calendar. Emoji you have, you'll
see. It actually says July 17th. So that's
why they picked today. And now this holiday kicked
off in 2014 and it was created by Emoji Pedia
founder Jeremy Burge and it's celebrating its 10th anniversary this
year. So since Emoji Pedia was founded in 2013
, we've used emojis a whopping 724% more and it's
estimated that 92 to 95% of the world uses emoji
. So pretty much everyone, you know, so
big question. Now, I have a favorite emoji
. I'm sure you do too. What are the
most popular emojis that people are using? Well,
can I get a drum roll, please? Because
this year's top five emojis according to emoji are so
far and I had to find the official names for
this face with tears of joy, which is,
you know, the face with the tears rolling on
the floor, laughing face, the red heart,
folded hands and the loudly crying face, which is
the one that has the tears that are sobbing.
Now as for celebrities, they are not like us
at all. The most commonly used celebrity emoji is
actually the purple heart. And when it comes to
hearts, that was the number three for us,
we like the red one. So the commoners are
picking the most common one. Now, you might
be curious about how times have changed. So 10
years ago, the face of tea face with tears
of joy was still the top emoji. So we're
still using it after all these years. However,
rounding up the top 5, 10 years ago was
the smiling face with hard eyes, the face blowing
a hard kiss, the OK hand and still the
loudly crying face. So as you've seen several of
our top emojis have fallen out of favor. But
over the last decade, we've added quite a few
emojis to lexicon. The most popular newcomers are the
rolling on floor laughing Emoji face, the smiling face
with hearts around it and the pleading big eyes,
black face. So while we have cocktails and dogs
and plant emojis, now we're still stuck on those
yellow faces to show our emotions. And of course
, some emojis have fallen out of favor. For
example, while I admit I use the face of
tears, Emoji quite a lot. It Genz says
it's a bit dated. Also, the thumbs up
emoji can be seen as a passive aggressive sign but
us all time, we still tend to use it
to say we got the message. It's still better
than texting back. Kay after all. Whenever our
gen Z coworkers told me here when I give them
the thumbs up Emoji, when I send it to
him, he thinks I'm sending him the finger.
Apparently you should not use the thumbs up emoji.
Who knew? Do you have a favorite Emoji Michelle
? I do have a favorite emoji, but I
do have a little bit of struggle with it and
I OK, Hannah, we've talked about this in
the past. So my favorite emoji is the shrugging
girl. However, I can never get the right
skin tone and hair because they only have certain look
. So I tend to use the Asian girl which
has black hair, the girl that with the crown
that you see. Um And but the problem is
whenever I use the thumbs of emoji, which I
know we're not supposed to be using, it tends
to show a super white hand which I'm a little
bit tanner than usual. So there's still problems with
the different skin tones on emojis. You could always
revert to using the yellow, but that's also apparently
offensive and people are trying to move away from that
. So, yes. So my skin tone doesn't
actually match when I'm doing other emoji signs. But
I do use that shrug. Grow quite a bit
because who knows? I'm glad you mentioned skin tone
. My issue is how they're not any interracial couples
. Oh, yeah, I could. Same problem
. Yes. I mean, you are right.
Our husbands don't look like us. You can't find
that emoji anywhere. So I think we should need
a little bit more adaptation. You know, I
message does allow you to do different faces, but
you could always use an emoji that can express your
feelings. All right, Michelle Castel, Michelle.
Thank you so much.