2025 / Most 2025 Emoji

Followers on X and Instagram come together to help choose just one emoji that they felt best represents the year we’ve had so far.

Nominees for 2025 included 🫡, 🫂, 🫦, 🫨, 🤖, 🫩, 🫶, and 🚨.

Voting took place in the run up to World Emoji Day on both X and Instagram Stories.

After several rounds of voting, the winner is…..

🫩 Face with Bags Under Eyes

It’s an emoji featuring a face with a somewhat strained expression and dark markings under its eyes, likely caused by stress or exhaustion — the fact we’ve collectively picked that as the emoji that best sums up the year so far? Well, I’ll let you read into that.