In this week’s social report we’re celebrating World Emoji Day, a day where we can share our love for the little yellow faces that help us express ourselves better than we ever have before (seriously, how did we share gossip with our friends without the steaming tea emoji?) The world truly embraced this day of emojis with the new iOS update featuring redheaded emojis (can we get a “finally!”), Twitter overflowing with love for the underappreciated aerial tram emoji, and Instagram adding emoji reacts to stories, a la Facebook. In addition to Emoji Day, the internet also celebrated Malala Yousafzai’s 21st birthday and her creation of an Instagram account! And while YouTube began to embrace the Twitter trend of hashtags, Twitter purged 70 million accounts. We’ve got the full roundup for you below:
#WorldEmojiDay: Metter Media’s Dream Emoji
Ah, the emoji… the millennial’s hieroglyph. Emoji are the easiest way to tell your best friend that you’re running late to meeting her at the bar but you want her to order you a slice of pizza and a beer: (🏃⏰🔜🍕🍻🙏). And they are one of Metter Media’s favorite parts of social media — so you bet your bottom dollar (⬇️💲?) that we’re celebrating World Emoji Day. What better way than to come up with our dream list of future emoji?
Unicode 11, get ready… we have plenty of ideas for you.