Adobe Emoji Trend Report.

Five thousand Americans participated in the survey, 92% of them daily send emoticons to their interlocutors. Results: • Sending 🍆 while flirting online makes the interlocutor less attractive. It's worse to send 💩 - this emoji is the most unpleasant for all survey participants. • The cutest romantic emoji - 😘. The top 3 also includes 🥰 and 😍. • Men during virtual flirting use emoji more often than women - 76% versus 68%. • 72% of users send emoticons in dialogue with someone they are interested in. About the same number believe that emojis make them look cooler, friendlier, and funnier. • Most often, interlocutors misunderstand the meaning of these emoji — 🤠, 🍒, 🙃. • 91% of respondents use emoticons to make conversation less serious and more frivolous. Most likely, this is what can explain that most of the most popular emoji are positive: 😂, 👍, ❤️, 🤣. Only one sad emoticon got into the top 5 - 😥. • 88% of respondents feel more empathy for those who use emoji, and 75% feel a deeper connection with such interlocutors.