"for ""The Guardian"", opined that the Face with Tears of Joy emoji is ""the worst emoji of all"", describing it as an ""obnoxious, chortling little yellow dickhead [with] bulbous, cartoonish tears streaming down its face"". Face with Tears of Joy emoji 😂, officially referred to as Face with Tears of Joy emoji—and also known as the LOL emoji, joy emoji, laughing emoji, laughing crying emoji, or the crying laughing emoji—is an emoji featuring a jovial face laughing, while also crying out tears. It can also be used for joking and teasing. It is one of the most commonly used emojis"
"usage, detailing that in 2015, 😂 was chosen as Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year because it was the most used emoji, globally, in that respective year. In a blog post, Oxford Dictionaries expressed that the emoji ""was chosen as the 'word' that best reflected the ethos, mood, and preoccupations of 2015."" SwiftKey further detailed that the emoji made up 20% of all the emojis used in the UK in 2015, and 17% of those in the US, up from 4% and 9% respectively, in 2014. Oxford Dictionaries president Caspar Grathwohl explained Oxford's choice, stating, ""emoji are becoming an increasingly"
"and ""anything from shutting haters down to a sense of accomplishment"". Unicode manuals sometimes provide notes on auxiliary meanings of an object to guide designers on how emoji may be used, for example noting that some users may expect to stand for ""a reserved or ticketed seat, as for an airplane, train, or theater"". Oxford Dictionaries named its 2015 Word of the Year. Oxford noted that 2015 had seen a sizable increase in the use of the word ""emoji"" and recognized its impact on popular culture. Oxford Dictionaries President Caspar Grathwohl expressed that ""traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to"
"Joy emoji ranked #1 globally, as well as in United Kingdom. The emoji was also one of the top three most used globally on Facebook's Messenger app. Also during the observance, SwiftKey announced that the emoji was the most used in the United Kingdom during 2016. In 2017, ""Time"" reported that for the third consecutive year the emoji ""[reigned] supreme on social media"". Twitter users voted this as the most popular emoji ""of all time"" in 2017, granting it the ""Lifetime Achievement Award"" in Emojipedia's annual ""World Emoji Awards"" announced on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange"
"for World Emoji Day. In November 2013, Brenden Gallagher of ""Complex"" ranked the ""Laughing Crying Face"" emoji at #2 in his ""Emoji Power Rankings"", writing that ""research courtesy of Complex Stats and Information indicates that the Laughing Crying Face has almost reached a point of complete saturation"". In response to Oxford's choice to make ""😂"" their word of the year in 2015, ""Slate"" staff writer Katy Waldman commented that ""😂 [is] the right linguistic incarnation of yet another complicated year, not to mention a good commentary on the very act of choosing a word of the year. What does it"
"or a group of emoji representing popular foods: ramen noodles (), dango (), onigiri (), Japanese curry (), and sushi (). Unicode Consortium founder Mark Davis compared the use of emoji to a developing language, particularly mentioning the American use of eggplant () to represent a phallus. Some linguists have classified emoji and emoticons as discourse markers. In December 2015 a sentiment analysis of emoji was published, and the Emoji Sentiment Ranking 1.0 was provided. In 2016, a musical about emoji premiered in Los Angeles. The computer animated ""The Emoji Movie"" was released in summer 2017. In January 2017, in"
"also seen controversy due to its being used, almost solely in the United States, to represent a penis. Beginning in December 2014, the hashtag began to rise to popularity on Instagram for use in marking photos featuring clothed or unclothed penises. This became such a popular trend that beginning in April 2015, Instagram disabled the ability to search for not only the tag, but also other eggplant-containing hashtags, including simply and . The peach emoji () has likewise been used as a euphemistic icon for buttocks, with a 2016 Emojipedia analysis revealing that only 7% of English language tweets with"
"OED, stated the reason: ""People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for."" Its researchers reviewed a corpus of 2 billion words (in newspapers, books, web sites and blogs from 2000). Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. (The CD-ROM supports Windows 2000 or higher, Mac OS x 10.3.9 (PowerPC) or 10.4 or 10.5 (Intel) or higher). The ""Shorter Oxford English Dictionary"" is available on CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh. Version 3.0 of that CD-ROM is copy-protected using SecuROM. The dictionary is also available as an electronic"
"recognizable, also helped GIF's popularity, as a user could abort the download if it was not what was required. In May 2015 Facebook added support for GIF. As a noun, the word ""GIF"" is found in the newer editions of many dictionaries. In 2012, the American wing of the Oxford University Press recognized ""GIF"" as a verb as well, meaning ""to create a GIF file"", as in ""GIFing was perfect medium for sharing scenes from the Summer Olympics"". The press's lexicographers voted it their word of the year, saying that GIFs have evolved into ""a tool with serious applications including"
"""is in the eye of the beholder"": inferring the context within the message was more important than the Emojipedia definition. In 2015, Emojipedia entered its first partnership with Quartz to release an app that allowed users access previously-hidden country flag emojis on iOS. In 2017 The Library of Congress launched the Web Cultures Web Archive which featured a history of ""memes, gifs, and emojis"" from references including Emojipedia, Boing Boing and GIPHY. Emojipedia Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools"
"World Emoji Day, Burge told The Independent ""there were no formal plans put in place"" other than choosing the date. The Washington Post suggested in 2018 that readers use this day to ""communicate with only emoji."" Google changed the appearance of Unicode character in 2016 to display July 17 on Android, Gmail and Hangouts products. On World Emoji Day 2015, Pepsi launched PepsiMoji which included an emoji keyboard and custom World Emoji Day Pepsi cans and bottles. These were originally released in Canada, and expanded to 100 markets in 2016.. In 2016, Sony Pictures Animation used World Emoji Day to"
"words that became Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year since 2003: Oxford University Press, which publishes the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" and many other dictionaries, announces an Oxford Dictionaries UK Word of the Year and an Oxford Dictionaries US Word of the Year; sometimes these are the same word. The Word of the Year need not have been coined within the past twelve months but it does need to have become prominent or notable during that time. There is no guarantee that the Word of the Year will be included in any Oxford dictionary. The Oxford Dictionaries Words of the Year are"
"College, Eye Magazine, Google, London Design Museum, and University College London. World Emoji Day is a ""global celebration of emoji"" created by Burge in 2014. According to the New York Times, he created this on ""July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones"". Burge told Axios in 2017 that ""Tim Cook tweeted about it [World Emoji Day] this year so I was kind of excited about that"". In 2017 Burge discussed the origin of World Emoji Day and Emojipedia at AOL BUILD, attended the lighting of the Empire State Building ""emoji yellow"" with The Emoji"
"announce T. J. Miller as the first cast member for ""The Emoji Movie,"" Google released “a series of new emoji that are more inclusive of women from diverse backgrounds” and Emojipedia launched the first World Emoji Awards. Other World Emoji Day announcements in 2016 came from Disney, General Electric, Twitter, and Coca-Cola. In 2017, Apple celebrated World Emoji Day by announcing its new emojis on iOS, London's Royal Opera House presented 20 operas and ballets in emoji form, Google announced the end of its “blob emojis” and winners of the World Emoji Awards were announced from the trading floor of"
"system for their devices, the reader's device may visualize the same emoji in a different way. Small changes to a character's look may completely alter its perceived meaning with the receiver. Some emoji have been involved in controversy due to their perceived meanings. Multiple arrests and imprisonments have followed usage of gun (), knife (), and bomb () emoji in ways that were deemed by authorities to constitute credible threats. In the lead-up to the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Unicode Consortium considered proposals to add several Olympic-related emoji, including medals and events such as handball and water polo. By October"
"a couple with supplies from Kmart. The icon is a character in 2017's ""The Emoji Movie"", voiced by Patrick Stewart. Pile of Poo emoji , also known just simply as Poo (on iOS devices), is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with eyes and a ""friendly smile"". It is used to convey dissatisfaction. The emoji is in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Unicode block: . In 1998 or 1999, Japanese mobile operators NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank Mobile each defined their own variants of emoji using proprietary standards, the first of which was created by NTT"
"World Emoji Day World Emoji Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on July 17. The day is deemed a ""global celebration of emoji"" and is celebrated with emoji events and product releases. Celebrated annually since 2014, NBC reported that the day was Twitter's top trending item on July 17 in 2015. World Emoji Day is ""the brainchild of Jeremy Burge"" according to CNBC who stated that ""London-based founder of Emojipedia created it"" in 2014. The New York Times reported that Burge created this on July 17 ""based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones"". For the first"
"when ""The Register"" reported the ""online encyclopedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site"" in relation to the downtime experienced by the site at the time. Emojipedia told Business Insider in early 2016 that it served ""over 140 million page views"" per year, and was profitable. In mid 2016, Emojipedia ""urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon"" citing cross-platform confusion. ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" reported that the site served 23 million page views in October 2017. World Emoji Day is a holiday created"
"Mitt Romney made criticizing London's preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics. On 13 November 2012, omnishambles was named Word of the Year by the ""Oxford English Dictionary"". Lexicographer and judge on the panel Fiona McPherson remarked that: ""It was a word everyone liked, which seemed to sum up so many of the events over the last 366 days in a beautiful way."" The word was formally added to the online editions of the ""Oxford Dictionary of English"" in August 2013 together with a number of other words that had also gained popularity during 2012 and 2013. These included selfie, twerk"
"terms of popularity. Design for the emoji was left to Google Doodle artists Ryan Germick and Susie Sahim, who sought to put a ""Google spin"" on the existing emojis. They drew inspiration from the existing emoji designs as well as the character Poop-Boy from the ""Dr. Slump"" manga by Akira Toriyama. They limited themselves to a size of 15×15 pixels and colors used only in Google's logo. Pile of Poo was added to Unicode in Unicode 6.0 (released in October 2010), and to Unicode's official emoji documentation in 2015. In 2017, a ""frowning pile of poo"" emoji was shortlisted for"
"of ""Rock Me Amadeus"", ""Rock Me Jerry Lewis"". Apple IOS 10 includes an auto-text emoji for 'professor' with a Lewis lookalike portrayal from ""The Nutty Professor"". 🤓 The word ""flaaaven!"", with its many variations and rhymes, is a Lewis-ism often used as a misspoken word or a person's mis-pronounced name. In a 2016 episode of the podcast ""West Wing Weekly"", Joshua Malina is heard saying ""flaven"" when trying to remember a character's correct last name. Lewis' signature catchphrase ""Hey, Laaady!"" is ubiquitously used by comedians and laypersons alike. Jerry Lewis Joseph Levitch (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017), known"
"Burge urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon in 2016, citing cross-platform confusion. Emoji flags for England, Scotland and Wales were added to the Unicode Standard in 2017 after a formal proposal co-authored by Burge was approved. Burge is regular news contributor to Emojipedia and was responsible for many of the initial emoji definitions on the reference website. Additionally he has written for publications such Six Colors, Medium, and The Internet Review. Burge started Emoji Wrap, a monthly podcast covering ""global emoji news and trends"" in August 2016 and has"
"by Emojipedia in 2014 which is held on 17 July each year. According to the New York Times the choice of 17 July was ""based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones"". Emojipedia used the second annual World Emoji Day to release EmojiVote as ""an experiment in Emoji democracy"". In 2017, Apple used this event to preview new emojis for iOS and Emojipedia announced the winners of the World Emoji Awards live from the New York Stock Exchange. Emojipedia launched ""Adopt an Emoji"" in September 2015 as ""an attempt to make the site free of display ads"""
"according to Wired. This preceded a similar program by the Unicode Consortium in December 2015. The Emojipedia ""Adopt an Emoji"" program was shut down in November 2016, citing ""confusion for users and advertisers"" due to the similarity with Unicode's fundraising effort. Emojipedia's images for future emoji designs have been used as the source of jokes in opening monologues on late night television shows such as ""The Daily Show"", ""Jimmy Kimmel Live"" and ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"". In 2018, Portland Maine's Press Herald reported that Senator Angus King had endorsed a new lobster emoji but Emojipedia's design was called"
"inclusion in a future Unicode release. After negative feedback on this character from WG2 experts including Michael Everson and Andrew West, the frowning pile of poo emoji was removed from the list of emoji candidates. ABC News' Samantha Selinger-Morris states in her 2016 article that the smiling poop emoji is ""one of the most popular emojis in existence"" due to its ""ineffable charm"" and ""ability to transcend language barriers and political differences."" As such, it has been featured on Mylar birthday balloons and cupcakes. In 2016, a termite mound in Western Australia was transformed into a smiling poop emoji by"
"robust, to allow the expression of a fuller range of emotions. He has appeared in other media relating to ""The Simpsons""—including video games, ""The Simpsons Movie"", The Simpsons Ride, commercials, and comic books—and inspired an entire line of merchandise. His signature catchphrase, the annoyed grunt ""D'oh!"", has been included in ""The New Oxford Dictionary of English"" since 1998 and the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" since 2001. Homer is one of the most influential characters in the history of television, and is widely considered to be an American cultural icon. The British newspaper ""The Sunday Times"" described him as ""the greatest comic"
"sign of the horns is used to represent the Horned God. In text-based electronic communication, the sign of the horns is represented with the codice_1, codice_2 , codice_3 or codice_4 emoticon and sometimes with codice_5. The Unicode character U+1F918 🤘 SIGN OF THE HORNS was introduced in Unicode 8.0 as an emoji, on June 17, 2015. Hook 'em Horns is the slogan and hand signal of the University of Texas at Austin. Students and alumni of the university employ a greeting consisting of the phrase ""Hook 'em"" or ""Hook 'em Horns"" and also use the phrase as a parting good-bye"
"the New York Stock Exchange and broadcast on Cheddar. In 2018, Kim Kardashian released her ""Kimoji"" fragrance line on World Emoji Day, Apple previewed new emoji designs including redheads and replaced executive photos on its corporate leadership page with emojis, Google announced the return of ""blob emojis"" in sticker form, and Facebook announced ""700 million emojis are used in Facebook posts each day"". Maggie Gyllenhaal, Andrew Rannells and Olivia Palermo attended the Pepsi World Emoji Day Red Carpet event in 2016. In 2017 Paula Abdul, Maya Rudolph, Liam Aiken, Jeremy Burge and Fern Mallis at the Saks Fifth Avenue red"
"existing emoji. Emoji are also supported by the Google Hangouts application (independent of the keyboard in use), in both Hangouts and SMS modes. Several third-party messaging and keyboard applications (such as IQQI Keyboard) for Android devices provide plugins that allow the use of emoji. Some apps, e.g. WhatsApp, come with Apple emoji for internal use. With Android 8 (Oreo), Google added a compatibility library that, if included by app developers, makes the latest Noto emoji available on any platform since Android 4.3. Until 2016, mobile phone vendors HTC and LG deployed variants of NotoColorEmoji.ttf with custom glyphs; Samsung still does."
"the ""Most Creative"" category under the American Dialect Society Word of the Year Awards, losing out to ""Googlegänger"". In December 2014, the word ""lolcat"" entered the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", appearing in its online version. Lolcat is a composite of two words, ""lol"" and ""cat"". ""Lol"" stands for ""Laugh out Loud"" or ""Laughing out Loud""; hence, lolcats are intended to be funny and to include jokes. Lolcats images comprise a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically set in a heavy sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black. The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect."
"Since its inception, facepalm has gained widespread popularity as a meme or comment image to portray a user's frustration or disappointment of a certain topic. Many sites such as Reddit use this image frequently and in many different ways, often to finish a story or joke that has been deemed dumb or had an obvious punchline. In 2016 the facepalm gesture was included in Unicode 9.0 as emoji. The keyboard-generated emoticon for facepalm is often shown as '(-_Q)' or 'Q-/' with the Q portraying the hand being placed on the face, as 'm-/' the m portraying fingers and the /"
"Emojipedia Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes and usage trends. Emojipedia is a voting member of The Unicode Consortium and has been called ""the world's number one resource on emoji"". Jeremy Burge created Emojipedia in 2013, and told the ""Hackney Gazette"" ""the idea came about when Apple added emojis to iOS 6, but failed to mention which ones were new"". Emojipedia rose to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 in 2014,"
"carpet on World Emoji Day. The Empire State Building was lit in ""emoji yellow"" for World Emoji Day in 2017 and the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell was rung by Jake T. Austin of ""The Emoji Movie"" and Jeremy Burge from Emojipedia. A Guinness World Record was attempted in Dubai on World Emoji Day in 2017 for the ""largest gathering of people dressed as emojis"". A new musical ""Emojiland"" premiered off-broadway in New York City at The Acorn Theatre on World Emoji Day 2018 as part of the New York Musical Festival. In 2016 Twitter noted that Australia's ""emoji-loving"""