A huge thank you to all who took part in voting, sharing and commenting on what you think about our 2025 winners. 🏆🏆🏆🏆

Finally.... the big one: 🏆 Lifetime Achievement Award Handed out to the very best — the most loved of all emoji. These are the ones we keep coming back to time and time again. For 2025 the award went to the 🫠 Melting Face emoji! Learn more: https://t.co/Q9caLncm45

👀 Most Anticipated Emoji But what about ✨ future ✨ emoji? You voted and selected the 'Distorted Face' emoji as the one you're most looking forward to using. It's due to arrive as part of Emoji 17.0 later this year.

🗓️ Most 2025 Emoji You helped us find the emoji that you felt summed up the year so far — a way to check the pulse on how folks are using emoji in the current moment. Well, the 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes took it here too, beating out other of-the-now choices!

🆕 Most Popular New Emoji Using real-world data we looked over which new additions to the emoji set are resonating with folks. 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes took the top spot, with the 🫆 Fingerprint and 🫟 Splatter taking second and third respectively! https://t.co/k9JFSz1Asi

Let's recap! ✨ This year we gave out shiny awards across four categories: 🆕 Most Popular New Emoji 🗓️ Most 2025 Emoji 👀 Most Anticipated Emoji 🏆 Lifetime Achievement Award

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... 🥳🌅

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay 🏆 Your #Most2025Emoji winner is 🫩 Face With Bags Under Eyes! Thanks for voting with us! 👏

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay After several rounds of voting, you’ve selected the 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes as the one emoji that you feel best sums up the year so far. It’s certainly a mood. A bit tired, folks? What does the emoji mean to you? #Most2025Emoji

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay Alright, we've tallied all the votes from here and over on Instagram, and we now have a winner in our search for the #Most2025Emoji..... 🥁 *drumroll please* 🥁

Oh, and for you stat fans, the Fight Cloud and Apple Core emoji took 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

We have a winner! 🏆 After hundreds of votes, you've helped crown the emoji that you're all looking forward to using the most. 🎉 Congratulations to the Distorted Face, your #MostAnticipatedEmoji! This future emoji is expected to arrive as part of Emoji 17.0 later this year.

Looks like one emoji has started to pull ahead with a slight lead! 👀

It joins other all-time greats, including 🤣, 😭, ❤️, and ✨. We've got a real Hall of Fame going here. 🥹

This celebrated emoji has been presented with the highly coveted Lifetime Achievement Award! 🎉 Congratulations to the 🫠 Melting Face emoji. https://t.co/Q9caLncm45

so much meme potential with these new emoji 😈

It’s currently 50/50! 🤯

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay It's our final pairing! Which of these do you want to 👑 as your #Most2025Emoji?

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay We have our finalists! Thanks to your votes, both the 🫡 Saluting Face and 🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes emoji have made it to the final pairing! But which will be your overall winner and be crowned the #Most2025Emoji?

@Emojipedia @WorldEmojiDay Ok, here we go! Which of these two emoji do you want to see sent to the final in our search for the #Most2025Emoji?