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The Raised Fist Emoji Is Social Media’s Resistance Symbol
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, research/study, social media, Twitter
Summary | Some researchers have analyzed which emojis are most often used in the recent protest hashtags on Twitter. The raised fist emoji comes up in all of them, particulartly when the tweet contains a word like "together" or a similar word marking community. Other popular emojis are the heart emoji, the American flag emoji, and the crying/laughing emoji. Depending on the tone of the hashtag, different emojis are more popular than others.
Image Description | The raised fist emoji and graphs and tables about the distribution of the different emojis in the protest hashtags.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, hashtag
This ‘Homoji’ Keyboard Brings Queer Shorthand To Your Text Messages
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, social media
Summary | A new emoji keyboard is available: Homoji. It includes emojis relevant to the gay community and culture such as 'gym bunnies' or 'otters' which are type-identifiers in the male gay community. Other emojis include colorful pieces of text of the words 'slay' or 'yaas'.
Image Description | A preview of the new available homojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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