Published 16:01 IST, July 17th 2020

World Emoji Day: Allu Arjun, Prabhas' memes storm internet as fans celebrate with emojis

Netizens took to their social media handles to celebrate the World Emoji Day and shared several pictures of their favourite actors sporting emoji-expressions.

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Every year, people across globe celebrate World Emoji Day (July 17) in a unique way. This year is exception as social media users have come up with an unusual way to celebrate event. Netizens across globe have shared ir favourite emojis with pictures of ir favourite actors giving expressions. Take a look at some of tweets which went viral:

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History of Emojis:

If reports are to be believed,  first emoji was created by a Japanese engineer Shigetaka Kurita, who worked at NTT Docomo, a mobile company. As per reports published online, Kurita was first person, who distributed  175-pixel emojis In Yahoo Messenger, which is considered among  oldest 'mainstream' emoji ever used in world. However, in year 2010, emoji reportedly me it to mobile operating system and from re it became widely available to users across world. As per a report published by a news daily, July 17 was chosen as World Emoji Day because same date is displayed on Calendar Emoji. 

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New emojis to be ded this year

As per a report published by a news daily, more than 110 new emojis will be ded in year 2020.  list includes bubble tea, bottle-feeding parents, -neutral characters, new animals, and trans flag. As of March 2020, re were a reported 3,304 emojis in Unicode Standard and most popular ones among m are tears of joy, red heart, heart eyes, fire, and thumbs up. As per reports, more than 90% of all Internet users use emojis at time of texting and more than 500 billion emojis are sent and exchanged each day. If reports are to be believed, Tech giant Apple has also anunced 70 new emojis this year for iPhones, iPs, Apple Watch, and will also include emojis for people with red hair, grey hair, and curly hair.

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16:00 IST, July 17th 2020