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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 18/07/2026

Waking up and thinking #WorldEmojiDay is a wrap? Not quite! There are still a few hours left on the global clock. It’s still July 17 📆 in: 🇺🇸 Alaska 🇳🇺 Niue 🇺🇸 Hawaii 🇵🇫 French Polynesia 🇨🇰 The Cook Islands We're celebrating until the very end, so keep the emojis coming! 🥳🙌

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

From seeing the most anticipated emojis from the 2026/2027 list, to unveiling “emoji” in 1954 and 1988, to uncovering the *real* seahorse emoji, to a BTS look at Google's 3D overhaul... Here is everything happening right now for #WorldEmojiDay! 🌎🥳📅 blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-on...

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

Today, major platforms like Google, Microsoft, and Samsung have aligned their calendar emojis to show July 17 too 📅🤝 There are still a couple of outliers, though! 😅 We're looking at you, Facebook, Huawei, and WhatsApp 🫣👀 Learn more here: emojipedia.org/calendar

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📅 Calendar Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month and day on a white, square page. Like 📆...

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

In 2010, 📅 Calendar was officially approved as part of Unicode 6.0. Apple designed it to display July 17 as a nod to that original iCal launch! 🍏 In 2014, Emojipedia founder @jeremyburge created #WorldEmojiDay specifically because of this emoji! emojipedia.org/apple/ios-5....

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📅 Calendar on Apple iOS 5.1

A single date on a calendar. Generally depicted as a page torn off from a daily desk calendar, displaying month and day on a white, square page. Like 📆...

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

The story starts back in 2002 ⏳. Apple 🍏 introduced its iCal calendar application for the Mac 🖥️ on this exact day, July 17th! 🗓️💻 Watch Steve Jobs talk about the app's launch here 🗣️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhL...

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Steve Jobs on iCalShare

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

So why exactly do we celebrate #WorldEmojiDay today? 🤔💭 If you look closely at the 📅 Calendar Emoji on your phone 📱, you will notice a specific date stamped on it. Yes, it says July 17 (for most folks, anyway!) 🗓️✨ Here is the fun history behind why today is our day! 🧵👇

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

We'd like to thank all our voters across X, Bluesky, Instagram, and Threads for taking part 🙏🗳️✨

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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

Plenty of people swear they remember a seahorse emoji. There are Reddit threads, TikToks, and AI chatbots losing it over it. 🧵🤖💫 They’ve been wrong… but thanks to a new discovery by Matt Sephton, maybe not entirely. 👀 #WorldEmojiDay blog.emojipedia.org/the-seahorse...

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The Seahorse Emoji WAS Real (But Not the One You Remember)

Many swear they remember a seahorse emoji. Reddit, TikTok, and AI chatbots insist it exists. They’re wrong, but thanks to a brand-new discovery, maybe not entirely. This World Emoji Day 2026, let us e...

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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

Did you know the word "emoji" (絵文字) actually predates mobile phones, digital text, and consumer tech? 📜🖊️ New research by Matt Sephton uncovers how the term was explicitly used in a word processor manual back in 1988! 📲👇 #WorldEmojiDay blog.emojipedia.org/the-word-emo...

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The Word "Emoji" Is Older Than You May Think

We've spent a lot of time on this blog correcting the record on when the first emoji set was launched. Now there's a new thread to pull, and it isn't just another device from another manufacturer with...

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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

Your next #Most2026Emoji pairing is here! Which of these two gets your vote? ⤵️ Will it be the viral star of SNL’s Weekend Update, the 🚡 Aerial Tramway… or does the 🫡 Saluting Face command more of your respect? [Results taken 2h from post time] 1️⃣ 🚡 Aerial Tramway 2️⃣ 🫡 Saluting Face 📊 Show results

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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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Emojipedia @emojipedia.org · 14/07/2026

Brand partnerships 🏎️⚽️, custom ZWJ sequences, and then-unofficial flags: WhatsApp has a surprisingly long history of marching to the beat of its own emoji drum 🥁 Ahead of #WorldEmojiDay on Friday, we look back at WhatsApp's unique emoji adventures 🔗👇 blog.emojipedia.org/whatapps-emo...

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WhatApp's Emoji Adventures: From Non-RGI Flags To Brand Deals

For World Emoji Day and the 2026 World Cup finals, WhatsApp partnered with Adidas to update its ⚽ Soccer Ball emoji to match the official "Trionda" ball. While unusual, this isn't WhatsApp's first spo...

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Emojipedia @emojipedia.org · 14/07/2026

With #WorldEmojiDay coming up this Friday and the Emoji 18.0 draft list heading for approval in September, we want to know... What is your Most Anticipated New Emoji of 2026? 🗳️✨ Cast your vote here 🔗👇 emojipedia.wispform.com/16bc7651

Unicode's sample images for a selection of the emojis proposed for Emoji 18.0, due for approval in September 2026.

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Emojipedia @emojipedia.org · 13/07/2026

This week (July 17) marks our thirteenth annual World Emoji Day! 🌎🥳📅 To begin the celebrations, the team here at Emojipedia have analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2025 have been the most popular new additions to our emoji keyboards 📈🧮🔗👇 blog.emojipedia.org/the-most-pop...

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This week (July 17) marks our thirteenth annual World Emoji Day! To begin the celebrations, the team here at Emojipedia have analyzed which of the emojis approved in 2025 are the most popular new addi...

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World Emoji Day 📆 @worldemojiday.com · 17/06/2026

World Emoji Day 2026 is only one month away! 😍📆 #WorldEmojiDay

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

#WorldEmojiDay 2025 ✅ 📆 Date for your diary: July 17, 2026 For more emoji goodness throughout the year, @emojipedia.org has your back! ✌️

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

Everyone got in a tiz again about emoji they don't understand, but real ones know that language is always evolving... 🎻 www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbea...

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The emojis your kids are using that you don't understand

Wait, the thumbs up means what?

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

The team at @emojipedia.org also had a chat with the man himself, and it was a Keith vs Keith conversation, and a deep-dive on emoji history, ready and waiting for anyone who wants to get into the nitty gritty 🤓 blog.emojipedia.org/major-moment...

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Major Moments In Emoji History: 1995* to 2025

Yesterday, as part of our World Emoji Day 2025 celebrations, we published a detailed history of the Twemoji emoji design set. Now, we’re discussing broader emoji history with Keith Houston, author of ...

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

There were also plenty of reviews for Keith Houston's new book, Face with Tears of Joy, which certainly seems like a good way to make World Emoji Day keep going... @theguardian.com @shadycharacters.co.uk www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Face With Tears of Joy: A natural History of Emoji by Keith Houston review

A deep dive into the surprising uses and linguistic shortfalls of the ubiquitous symbols

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

🧩 Talking of which, Apple revealed its newest puzzle game, which is largely being reviewed as an 'emoji version of Wordle'. SIGN. US. UP. @polygon.com www.polygon.com/news/613453/...

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Apple’s new daily puzzle game is basically Emoji Wordle

Emoji Game, Apple’s new daily puzzle game, is here to take over your life

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

We also got a first look at the next batch of emoji to potentially hit your small screens in 2026. Put your hands in the air for apple core 🙌 🍎 @theverge.com @jaypeters.net www.theverge.com/news/709179/...

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The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

Sorry, “hairy creature.”

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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

As the clock ticks over to midnight in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the sun sets on another glorious #WorldEmojiDay, we take a look back at all your need-to-know info from this year's celebrations... 🥳🌅

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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

Related news — here are all the places it remains July 17 📆 🥳 🇳🇺 Niue 🍞 Baker Island 🇺🇸 Hawaii, USA 🇵🇫 French Polynesia 🇨🇰 Cook Islands #WorldEmojiDay

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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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