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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

Fittingly, the final was the closest-fought contest of our entire tournament. 🥊💥🤏🗳️ But while 🫩 Bags Under Eyes put up an incredible fight, they blinked first - meaning our official #Most2026Emoji is 🫪 Distorted Face! 🏆Fisheye selfies all round to celebrate! ✨🐟👁️🤳

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Distorted Face declared the winner over Bags Under Eyes.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

Goodnight, Japan! 🇯🇵💤📆 As #WorldEmojiDay comes to a close in the birthplace of emojis, we want to say thank you for changing the way we message each other forever! 🥹🙏✨ Oyasumi nasai! #世界絵文字デー

An aerial night view of the Tokyo skyline featuring Tokyo Tower, digitally overlayed with various emojis including a new moon face, Mount Fuji, sparkles, a torii gate, the Japanese flag, buildings, and a post office.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

¡Bom dia, Cidade Maravilhosa! ☀️ No #WorldEmojiDay, a gente comemora com muita energia e, claro, um mergulho no mar 🌊🏄‍♂️ #DiaDoEmoji

Uma vista panorâmica da praia de Ipanema e do Morro Dois Irmãos no Rio de Janeiro, contendo intervenções digitais com emojis de sol, guarda-sol, uma árvore e duas pessoas caminhando pelo famoso calçadão de pedras portuguesas.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

¡Buen día, Buenos Aires! En el #DiaMundialDelEmoji se arranca con un matecito y manija de final del mundo 🧉🏆⚽ #WorldEmojiDay

Una vista aérea del Obelisco y la Avenida 9 de Julio en Buenos Aires, intervenida digitalmente con emojis flotantes de un sol con rostro, un avión y colectivos sobre el tránsito de la ciudad.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

Gooooood morning, New York City! ✨🗽🏙️✨ Bagels are toasted, the morning yoga is done, the coffee is strong, and you’re still riding high after the Knicks got the W - let’s keep those immaculate vibes rolling for #WorldEmojiDay! 🥯🧘‍♂️☕️🏀

A daytime view of the New York City skyline with several superimposed emojis, including a sun with face and cloud in the upper left, a red helicopter in the upper right, an apple tree and a person practicing yoga on rooftops near the bottom left, and a basketball visible in a building window on the right.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

🚨 ONLY ONE HOUR LEFT TO VOTE! 🚨 Don't miss your chance to crown the Most Anticipated Emoji from the 2026 draft list! Which one are you looking forward to the most? Vote via the link below! 🗳️✨ #WorldEmojiDay emojipedia.wispform.com/16bc7651

An array displays nine sample designs from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 draft list—expected to be approved in September 2026—arranged in a three-by-three grid that includes a cracked smiling face, left-pointing and right-pointing thumbs, a monarch butterfly, a pickle (or cucumber), a lit lighthouse, a flaming meteor, a pink eraser, and a butterfly net.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

It’s come down to a battle between the Most Popular New Emoji 2026 (🫪 Distorted Face) and its predecessor, the Most Popular New Emoji 2025 (🫩 Bags Under Eyes) Who's the #Most2026Emoji?🗳️⤵️ [Results taken 7h from post time] 1️⃣ 🫪 Distorted Face 2️⃣ 🫩 Bags Under Eyes 📊 Show results

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Distorted Face vs Bags Under Eyes in the finals.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

🧨 Firecracker failed to ignite, as a dominant 🫩 Bags Under Eyes trudges forward to our grand final - somebody get that emoji finalist a coffee! ☕ We are officially down to the final two: 🫪 vs. 🫩! Keep your eyes on the feed: voting starts in minutes! 🗳️

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Face With Bags Under Eyes wins the first semi-final over Firecracker.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2026

No matter how you say "Good morning", whether it's 🇩🇪 Guten Morgen, 🇵🇱 Dzień dobry, 🇪🇸 Buenos días, 🇳🇱 Goedemorgen, 🇫🇷 Bonjour, or 🇱🇺 Gudde Moien... 🌅 📅 It’s #WorldEmojiDay! Rise and shine, Europe! ☕ 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇷🇴🇳🇱🇬🇷🇵🇹🇧🇪🇨🇿🇭🇺🇧🇾🇸🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇷🇸🇧🇬🇩🇰🇮🇪🇮🇸🇲🇹🇱🇺🇫🇮🇭🇷🇳🇴

A satellite map of Europe and North Africa set against a deep blue ocean, featuring a framed sunrise emoji overlaid on the left side over the Atlantic Ocean.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

So, who faces 🫪 Distorted Face in the grand final of our #Most2026Emoji tournament? Will the perpetually exhausted 🫩 Bags Under Eyes pull through, or is the explosive 🧨 Firecracker taking the W? [Results will be taken 5h from post time] 1️⃣ 🫩 Bags Under Eyes 2️⃣ 🧨 Firecracker 📊 Show results

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Distorted Face wins the first semi-final over Aerial Tramway.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

In the end it wasn’t even close, folks - the 🫪 Distorted Face advances past the 🚡 Aerial Tramway at warp-speed to the finals of the #Most2026Emoji contest. Does this mean the 🚡 Aerial Tramway has to take an 🚡 Aerial Tramway back home…? 🤔

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

🕛 🇦🇺 G’DAY (WELL, GOOD EVENING) SYDNEY, BRISBANE & MELBOURNE! 🇦🇺 🕛 Welcome to the 13th annual #WorldEmojiDay! 🌏🥳📆 Probably a bit too late to throw some snags on the barbie tonight, but definitely fire it up tomorrow in celebration! 🔥 🔥

An aerial view of the Sydney Opera House at twilight, adorned with three emoji flags (Australian, Performing Arts emoji, and Kangaroo emoji) on its sails and a Moon Emoji in the sky, while a yellow and blue Speedboat emoji skims across the water, three Firework emojis float in the upper left, coral emoji is in the bottom left, and a shark emoji is in the bottom right corner.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

Our first #Most2026Emoji semi-final is a meme battle! We’ve got the 2026 Most Popular New Emoji, 🫪 Distorted Face, taking on one of the least-used in existence, the 🚡 Aerial Tramway. [Results taken 5h from post time] Who gets your vote? 🗳️⤵️ 1️⃣ 🫪 Distorted Face 2️⃣ 🚡 Aerial Tramway 📊 Show results

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

🌴🕛 🇰🇮 ALOHA/MAURI KIRIBATI! 🇰🇮 🕛🌴 As your clock strikes midnight, you’re officially the first timezone in the world to welcome the 13th ever #WorldEmojiDay! 🌏🥳📅

A tropical shoreline from Fanning Island, Kiribati, playfully overlaid with emoji designs, including a smiling sun with a cloud in the sky, a tropical fish splashing out of the turquoise water, a trio of waves in the distance, and a palm tree and seashell resting on the grassy shore.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

Based on votes across all our social channels, the 🧨 Firecracker has exploded past the 🥀 Wilted Flower to take the last slot in our semi-finals! Our first semi-final match-up, pitting 🫪 Distorted Face against 🚡 Aerial Tramway, kicks off later today. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Firecracker wins the fourth round

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

It’s now time for the last of our opening rounds, which is pitting the🧨 Firecracker against the 🥀 Wilted Flower. Is it t&time for TNT after the wedding of the summer, or will the wilted flower droop it ways to victory? Cast your vote! ⤵️ 1️⃣ 🧨 Firecracker 2️⃣ 🥀 Wilted Flower 📊 Show results

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes wins the third round.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2026

Despite the final two teams of the FIFA World Cup 2026 now being set, the ⚽ Soccer Ball is heading home as the 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes trudges wearily forward. Last of the opening rounds shortly! 🗳️

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 15/07/2026

On to the next round of our #Most2026Emoji contest: 🫩 Bags Under Eyes VS ⚽ Soccer Ball. Can the ⚽ go all the way with the World Cup final on the horizon, or is the exhausted 🫩 going to caffeinate its way to a win? [Results taken in 2h] 1️⃣ 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes 2️⃣ ⚽ Soccer Ball 📊 Show results

“Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket. Aerial Tramway Emoji wins the second round.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 15/07/2026

In what has to be considered a bit of an upset, it’s the mode of transport of the moment that advances! 🚡 Fs in the chat for the 🫡 Saluting Face emoji. Right, next vote incoming momentarily!

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 15/07/2026

What single emoji best represents the year so far? Help us crown the 🗓️ #Most2026Emoji - we'll all be voting in the run up to #WorldEmojiDay! Votes from here will be combined with votes from Instagram, Threads, & X. First round: 1️⃣ 🫪 Distorted Face Emoji 2️⃣ 🎷 Saxophone Emoji 📊 Show results

The “Most 2026 Emoji” tournament bracket showing various emoji going head to head.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 18/07/2025

You spoke, the whole world listened. This year's World #Emoji Awards saw some unprecedented drama, with the youngest ever winner for a lifetime achievement award 🫠 and 🫩 snagging not one, but two awards. Read all about it here worldemojiawards.com/2025/

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 18/07/2025

First things first, EmojiTracker is BACK from the internet archives! 📈 Now powered by the @emojipedia.org user base, you can watch super satisfying real-time videos of emoji use — and launch a campaign to help an underused fave 🚀 up the charts... emojitracker.com?ref=blog.emo...

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 18/07/2025

Look at these totally real and absolutely unedited pictures from all these places, still rocking it up for #WorldEmojiDay2025 🌴

A bright blue bay, with greeny blue waters. Emoji swimmers and jellyfish swim around.

A sandy beach, with an emoji sun and an emoji palm tree

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 18/07/2025

If you believe it hard enough, it really is still #WorldEmojiDay somewhere...

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

You’ve voted. 🫩 This is the emoji folks feel best sums up the year so far…

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

Could there possibly be a better or more therapeutic way to while away the afternoon on #WorldEmojiDay than watching @alice.mosphere.at's Bluesky emoji tracker? emojistats.bsky.sh

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

Hey, Toronto! Happy #WorldEmojiDay! Ready to take on the day? 🍁✨

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

Good morning, New York! The coffee’s strong and the vibes are stronger. ☕️🗽✨ #WorldEmojiDay

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

New emoji anyone? 🤩 Which are you looking forward to using?

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

Whether you say Guten Morgen, Dzień dobry, Buenos días, Goedemorgen, Bonjour, Gudde Moien, or anything else, one thing is true: It’s #WorldEmojiDay! Good morning Europe! 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇷🇴🇳🇱🇬🇷🇵🇹🇧🇪🇨🇿🇭🇺🇧🇾🇸🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇷🇸🇧🇬🇩🇰🇮🇪🇮🇸🇲🇹🇱🇺🇫🇮🇭🇷🇳🇴

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/07/2025

おはよう日本!🗾 (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ ハッピー #WorldEmojiDay!

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2025

It’s official, #WorldEmojiDay has landed — here’s everything you need to know in 60 seconds ⏰ — including why it's held on July 17 and how you propose a new emoji.

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 16/07/2025

📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆 July 17th is the twelve World Emoji Day! 📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆📆

The calendar emoji showing the July 17th date.

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