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World Emoji Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated on July 17.[1] The day is deemed a "global celebration of emoji"[2] and is primarily celebrated online.[3]

Origins

World Emoji Day is "the brainchild of Jeremy Burge"[4] according to CNBC who stated that "London-based founder of Emojipedia created it" in 2014.[5]

According to the New York Times, Burge created this on "July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones”.[6] For the first World Emoji Day, Burge told The Independent "there were no formal plans put in place"[7] other than choosing the date.

Trivia

  • Australia's "emoji-loving" Foreign Minister Julie Bishop[8] shares her birthday with World Emoji Day.[9]
  • The Unicode U+1F4C5 📅 CALENDAR emoji[10] does not display July 17 on all platforms.[11]
  • Custom World Emoji Day Pepsi Bottles were launched on World Emoji Day in 2015.[12]

References

  1. ^ Mastroianni, Brian (15 July 2016). "For World Emoji Day, Twitter reveals the most popular emoji around the globe". CBS News. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  2. ^ "World Emoji Day". World Emoji Day. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  3. ^ Beall, Abigaill (16 July 2016). "17 July is World Emoji Day". Daily Mail. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
  4. ^ David, Javier (17 July 2016). "World Emoji Day finds its place on a packed calendar of holidays". CNBC. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  5. ^ O'Neill Deighan, Emma (17 July 2015). "It's World Emoji Day, how will you celebrate?". Belfast Live. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  6. ^ Varn, Kathryn (25 April 2016). "The emoji inspired by a work of art". Universo Online. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  7. ^ Griffin, Andrew (17 July 2016). "World Emoji Day: Meet the man whose life work is cataloguing emoji". The Independent. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  8. ^ Markson, Sharri (8 June 2015). "A Julie and Hugh affair". The Australian. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  9. ^ Stocks, Karen (16 July 2015). "Add a little colour to your Tweets on #WorldEmojiDay". Twitter. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Calendar Emoji". Emojipedia.
  11. ^ Ingersoll Schwartz, Justine (24 May 2016). "We Finally Know Why Every Calendar Emoji Date Is July 17". SheWrites. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  12. ^ Fera, Rae Ann (17 July 2015). "Pepsi Celebrates World Emoji Day With More Emoji". Fast Company. Retrieved 30 May 2016.


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