The Results Are In: Here Are the 10 Most Popular Emoji of 2021

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The Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for approving and standardizing the use of emoji around the world, has shared a fun new look into how often some of the most popular emoji were used over the course of the past year.

According to Jennifer Daniel, who chairs the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, 92 percent of the world’s online population regularly use emoji. However, Daniel and her team were determined to find out which emoji people are using the most this year, and the results are somewhat surprising — especially in light of the year we’ve all been having.

It turns out that the overwhelming majority of the most oft-used emoji were those that depict happy and positive vibes.

In fact, the results weren’t significantly different from the last time the Consortium looked at this data two years ago, with most of the same emoji remaining in top place.

At the very top of the list was Face with Tears of Joy (

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