World Emoji Day And The Evolution Of The Online Language

World Emoji Day is July 17, so we're exploring how the language of emoji evolves.

Not a day goes by where I don’t use a little “party popper” emoji to add color to a conversation or a “joy” face to laugh at a joke. Emoji have become major tools of communication over the past decade — alongside gifs and memes — and so for this year’s World Emoji Day on July 17, we thought it’d be fun to explore how the language of emoji has evolved over the past couple years.  Keith Broni, Deputy Emoji Officer at Emojipedia: "What's happening here is we're having emojis be picked up and utilized to compliment slang terms that have been popularized over the last number of months or even years."  Keith Broni is the deputy emoji officer of Emojipedia, an online dictionary that explains not only the literal meaning of the symbols, but also their changing designs across different platforms, and their evolving definitions as a result of memes, jargon and internet slang.