{"id":8873,"date":"2017-07-17T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T08:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2020-08-19T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T21:42:17","slug":"make-it-awesome-series-world-emoji-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-world-emoji-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#MakeItAwesome \u2014 World Emoji Day Edition: What Is the Most Awesome Emoji [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"Read Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes <\/span><\/span>

It\u2019s time for our next installment in the #MakeItAwesome series \u2014 The Most Awesome Emoji.<\/p>\n

Emojis So Awesome, They Need Their Own Day<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s no denying the awesomeness of emojis. Emojis, those little smiley faces we all know and love, create a visual way to communicate in text that fills the gap between text and imagery. There\u2019s no doubt that these little goobers have added an entire new level of awesomeness to our communication.<\/p>\n

Who Invented Emojis?<\/h3>\n

Emojis were invented in Japan in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita<\/a>, who was looking for a way to incorporate the symbols that texting customers were creating using punctuation (called emoticons). Why not make them colorful, with tons of personality, and why not build them right into the phone? What Shigetaka stumbled on was beyond awesome \u2014 and not just because emojis are fun to look at \u2014 they actually allow a more human form of expression. <\/p>\n

In this Storify post<\/a> about the history of emojis, we can see just why emojis are so completely awesome, \u201c[Emojis] fulfill our human need to express emotions, giving people the ability to more clearly communicate and express the meaning, feeling, and tone of what we are saying. In fact emojis go even further as to actually providing humans increased social well-being and psychological health that actual face to face social interaction provides.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Emoji Day<\/h3>\n

And World Emoji Day \u2014 the day we celebrate all things emoji \u2014 is July 17! Happy World Emoji Day, one and all! We are truly lucky to live in a world with little characters that can actually increase \u201csocial well-being and psychological health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awesomeness\u2026 Emoji Style<\/h2>\n

Like all things awesome, we wanted to see what the Powtoon team thought about it. So, in honor of World Emoji Day 2017, here you have the next installment of our #MakeItAwesome Series: What is the most awesome emoji?<\/p>\n