The Unicode Consortium did the work and has released the research that details which emoji were the most used throughout 2021.
The Tears of Joy emoji was the most popular emoji, followed by the heart emoji.
The next most used emojis through the year were:
I watch the housewives franchise on Bravo and according to RHSLC, the thumbs up is also used to flip someone off....is that true??
Flags continue to be the least used emoji, despite being the largest category (258 emoji).