The most used emojis in every state. NJ’s is very on brand

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who use emojis, and those who avoid them like the plague. But if you had to think right now back to the last 50 texts you sent, could you guess which emoji you use the most?

I’m a big SMH girl ‍because I think the little woman there with her face in her palm is adorable, but I would have to say that the 😥 is my second.

It’s kind of funny when you think about it.

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We’ve come all this way with technology… and now we’re basically back to talking in pictures again.

And honestly It works.

There are just things you can express with emojis that you can’t in regular words.

A breakdown by verizonspecials looked at which emojis people use the most across the country, and one thing was clear right away.

The 😂 (face with tears of joy) emoji absolutely dominates.

It had over 180 million mentions in a year. That’s not even close. It beat the crying emoji by more than 60 million uses and more than doubled the ❤️ red heart.

Which makes sense. Most of what we’re doing all day is either laughing, stressed, or pretending everything’s fine.

Face with tears of joy emoji was by far the most popular emoji across the entire United States with over 180 million mentions in a year. It was used over 60 million more times than the “loudly crying” emoji in second place and more than twice as many total times as the “red heart” in third place. It makes sense, since laughter, sadness, and love are some of our strongest emotions.

The Methodology here was fascinating. They used emojistats.org and a list of the most popular emojis from a tool called Brandwatch to determine the most popular emojis in the nation. Brandwatch scoured Twitter to find the top ten emojis used and their origins. Because that laughing emoji was number one everywhere, they looked at the second most-used emoji in each state.

And New Jersey’s, of course, was the 😭 crying emoji.

And of course, you know that this 😭 does not represent the soft, sentimental kind of crying. This is the dramatic one. The overwhelmed one. The “are you f-ing kidding me right now” one.

It had over 2.7 million uses just in New Jersey.

This makes so much sense. Because if you’ve ever texted with someone from New Jersey, you know. We’re not subtle. Everything is either hilarious or a complete disaster. There’s really no middle.

And we’re not alone. A lot of states landed on that same crying emoji, including New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas.

Meanwhile, some of the calmer states leaned more into the ❤️ emoji. Which… good for them.

Couldn’t be us.

It really just confirms something we already knew.

Emojis are basically how we talk now.

And in New Jersey, we’re either laughing… or we’re losing our minds. Or both.

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Opinions expressed in the post above are those of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Judi Franco only.

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