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Emoji Rule (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 150 points 6 months ago

In life you either cry, laugh, love or succumb to raging nationalism.

[-] revisable677@feddit.de 76 points 6 months ago

Or, in case of Japan, sparkle

[-] lemmy_at_em_00001@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

and whatever the Kuwaitis think the pin πŸ“ emoji means

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 6 months ago

I believe that's a stop sign.

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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago
[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Awesoma powa! Disrespectful to dirt!

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[-] Zorg 22 points 6 months ago

Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.

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[-] Liome@pawb.social 85 points 6 months ago

Poland's most used emoji being Ukrainian flag is kinda hilarious.

[-] proti@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦β™₯️

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 months ago

not really, lots of family across these borders

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago

Data was likely sourced during the war, and Poland is one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine (in part because they fear they might be next)

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 59 points 6 months ago

Shout out to all the tiny islands who apparently do nothing but send their own flag to each other all day. We see you lite buddies.

[-] June@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

I don't think I have ever sent a flag. So it's wild to me.

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

Japan has the only semi-interesting one.

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kuwait has something unique too πŸ“

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 6 months ago

I can't believe there's no πŸ’€

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[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 27 points 6 months ago

What we really want to know is which country has the most use of the eggplant emoji πŸ†

[-] youngalfred@lemm.ee 25 points 6 months ago
[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 months ago

It's also the cry-laugh emoji but the tears froze on the face.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 months ago

I want to know why Trinidad, indonesia, Uruguay and Chile have 🀣 where as most of the world does πŸ˜‚

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

It's the italicized version

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Normal: πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

Italicized: πŸ€£πŸ˜‚

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[-] electric@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

An incredibly well-done graphic, very easy to understand and flows nicely. I wonder why Saudi Arabia has more use of white hearts specifically.

[-] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago

Iirc sending red heart to girls is offensive in saudi

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 20 points 6 months ago
[-] Vendul@feddit.de 7 points 6 months ago

Having geotag enabled. How stupid are people? Protect your data folks.

[-] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Damn Poland okay

[-] GodyGade@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Hope Antigua and Barbuda is alright...

[-] plunged_ewe@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

πŸ˜‚ is the most used emoji in England, Wales, and Scotland. In Northern Ireland it's β™₯️ yet this is also the most used in the UK. So either the data is wrong or Northern Ireland is pumping those numbers UP.

[-] readthemessage@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 6 months ago

Or ❀️ is a close second in all countries

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[-] Shameless@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

What's happening in Antigua and Barbuda? 😭

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 11 points 6 months ago

This might be one of the worst designed maps I have ever seen...

[-] Maimas2@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Rip france πŸ—Ώ

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 9 points 6 months ago

India and Nepal praying hands πŸ™ were expected, Venezuela was not what I expected.

[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

How'd they find out the north Korea one?

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This graph was made from geotagged tweets.

Presumably that's why the flags are so popular as well, I doubt Belgians are sending Belgian flags to one another in the DM's. Or maybe they do, I wouldn't know.

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[-] anarchist@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Reminder that "national boundaries with mercator projection" maps are, while on the surface interesting, on a meaningful enough level are less useful due to sheer degree of variance. Small (sized) countries get buried to thr point of not being visible, while large (populated) countries get over-generalised to the point of meaninglessness.

How does the UK have the ❀️ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was πŸ˜‚.

[-] clara@feddit.uk 20 points 6 months ago

it's an example of simpson's paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❀️ 49% and use tears of joy πŸ˜‚ at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart ❀️at 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over

even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart ❀️ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji πŸ‘πŸ˜€πŸ₯°πŸ˜Ό at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart ❀️ is still the most used across the UK

now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy πŸ˜‚ is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that's 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it's no wonder funky effects show up

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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago
[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago
[-] Oaksey@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Surprised that thumbs up isn’t the most popular somewhere πŸ‘

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

looks like (of course there are exceptions to these observations): those with a laughing face live in a media landscape mostly dominated by the people, those with praying hands, are places where mostly the theocracy have the phones, hearts mean the government has the mainhand in this and are trying to deflect of some shit, and finally, no fucking clue what the fuck japan is doing... but i dont want to go to antigua and barbuda, pray laos is allright and hope kuwait finds its place

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Japan is just sparkling. it's normal there.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

A bunch of countries just have their own flag as an emoji... The author barely managed to identify which emoji tourists use when posting about their trip on twitter.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago

the data is clearly fucked given the whole UK mess, and given it's all either small countries, authoritarian hellholes or both which have their country flag I'm inclined to believe it's a "no data" placeholder

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[-] leekleak@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

cool map but what is up with Kuwait?

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