Interesting facts about emojis

You must be using emojis to communicate with your friends or loved ones on a daily basis. It can be considered as one of the best options available for modern world individuals to express their views or thoughts through digital media. Here is a list of some interesting facts that you probably didn’t know about emojis and emojination.

1. Emojis have become the fastest growing language in UK – Emojis have received a lot of popularity in the recent past. In fact, UK has become an emojination land because emojis have become the fastest growing language in there. From a recent study that was conducted in UK, it has been identified that over 70% of the youngsters use emojis to communicate with others on a daily basis. This trend would continue for the upcoming years as well.
2. The aubergine was banned – You have hundreds of emojis in your smartphone and if you have a closer look at them, you would see that aubergine emoji has been banned recently. People have been using this emoji of eggplant to leave inappropriate comments in social media networks. As a result, the usage of this emoji was banned in the recent past.
3. You cannot find the ginger emoji on Apple products – If you think that all available emojis are the same in different devices, you are mistaken. In fact, the Apple devices do not have the ginger emoji.
4. Emojis are older than you think – You might think that emojis came into the world along with smartphones. The first ever emojis were introduced back in 1999. They only became popular after the introduction of smartphones. That’s because people didn’t have any convenient methods to share winky faces at that time. They became extremely popular in 2012, when Apple bought a whole new bunch of emojis to be introduced with iOS 6.
5. The word “Emoji” is there in the dictionary – Emoji can be considered as one of the recently added words to the dictionary. It was introduced to the Oxford dictionary back in 2013.
6. The most used emoji is “Tears of Joy” – I’m sure you must be using this emoji in your day to day life. In fact, it is the most popular emoji among others as well. This fact has been verified according to the statistics of Emojitracker.
7. Miley has got an emoji tattoo – The world famous celebrity, Miley Cyrus has got an emoji tattoo in her armpit. In addition, she has inked some of her favorite emojis in the inner lip. Once she has stated that she is planning to get some more emoji tattoos on her body.
8. You can find hidden emojis within emojis – Did you ever know that some emojis are hidden inside others? If you take a closer look at the available emojis in your smartphone, you will be able to realize it. Some of the emojis have been modified slightly in order to create new ones.