07/17/2023
🎉🌎 🤗 📆 … or Happy World Emoji Day! We don’t know about you, but our team loves a good emoji or two. That’s why we wanted to celebrate this day by sharing a few fun facts about emojis:
✔️ Emojis are older than some people in the workforce. (Yes, really!) Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurit created the first emojis in 1999, though they weren’t widely used until 2011.
✔️ In 2015, the 😂 emoji became Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year, but today, many younger generations give it a big 👎.
✔️ Emoji Day takes place on July 17 because Apple’s calendar emoji shows — you guessed it – July 17.
Now for the important question: What’s your favorite emoji? Drop it in the comments ⬇️ We’d love to get an unofficial vote going!