According to our emoji use, Australians love alcohol, junk food, holidays and clothes
Aussies love booze, drugs, junk food and clothing if our emoji use is anything to go by, an international study has revealed.
Popular app for smartphones,SwiftKey, analysed more than a billion pieces of data on emoji use sent by people from 16 countries from all around the world in a four-month period.
Here are just some of their findings:
- The French are – perhaps unsurprisingly – obsessed with love. They use four times as many heart emojis than any other language. Russians follow in a close second.
- Canadians are the highest users of the gun emojis, as well as money and raunchy humour.
- Australians use alcohol emoji twice as much as the global average, drug emoji (including cigarettes) 70 per cent more than average, holidays 60 per cent more than average and junk food twice the average.
- Malaysians use the sleepy emoji twice the average
- Canadian and Vietnamese people use the poop emoji most.
- Arabic and Vietnamese speakers use the bikini emoji three times as much as others
- Brazilians are the most religious using double the number of prayer hands and church emoji.
- Americans sent 30 per cent more LGBT-related emoji than the average, including a rainbow, men holding hands or women holding hands.
Overall, happy faces, including winks, kisses, smiles and grins were the most popular emojis across all regions, making up 45 per cent of all messages studied. Sad faces were in second place though but this was followed by the heart emojis. Hand gestures such as thumbs up, clapping hands and the peace were in fourth, followed by romantic emojis, such as the lipstick kiss mark, love letter and couple kissing.
Here are the most popular categories for each language:
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