An incredibly well-done graphic, very easy to understand and flows nicely. I wonder why Saudi Arabia has more use of white hearts specifically.
Iirc sending red heart to girls is offensive in saudi
This might be one of the worst designed maps I have ever seen…
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.
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
I don’t think twitter users in authoritarian hellholes are acting like NPCs going “Glory to Artsotzka” every five minutes.
It’s tourism, coupled with low twitter use from the local population. Belgium has a bigger population than Belarus and unlike it isn’t an authoritarian hellhole. But it’s way more touristy. So Belgium has its own flag as the most used emoji but Belarus doesn’t.
You can see this pattern pretty clearly in the ME as well. Jordan, Yemen, or Syria don’t have their own flag as their most used emoji (despite being both small and undemocratic), because there ain’t any tourists there. Qatar does. (A bit surprised about Cyprus though, do they use twitter a lot?)
The data is probably sound, but the methodology is insane.
Given Turkmenistan’s past record it wouldn’t even shock me to find out there’s a law saying people have to do exactly that, but yeah you’re probably right
Antarctica: 🥶
It’s also the cry-laugh emoji but the tears froze on the face.
I can’t believe there’s no 💀
Genz won’t be a majority for another couple decades. Millennials and older don’t use it as much.
💀
India and Nepal praying hands 🙏 were expected, Venezuela was not what I expected.
Rip france 🗿
In life you either cry, laugh, love or succumb to raging nationalism.
Or, in case of Japan, sparkle
Awesoma powa! Disrespectful to dirt!
I’m having a tough time trying to read that, the first part is obviously 「ミスター スパーコル!」 (“misutā supākoru!”/mister sparkle) but the second part is hard to read, I think it says 「ハワー ワリーソ!」(“hawā warīso!”) but it doesn’t make any sense to me. Maybe the ハ is just missing a handakuten and it’s supposed to say “pawā”/power? But idk what the second one is supposed to be. Maybe クリーン (“kurīn”/clean)? But that’s a stretch.
and whatever the Kuwaitis think the pin 📍 emoji means
I believe that’s a stop sign.
Unless you’re Poland
Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.
😂
kazakhistan is do based for using the 💜💜💜
How does the UK have the ❤️ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was 😂.
Volume. They only use heart emojis in morse code to communicate all their messages in NI. Also the entire government website and all companies start and end their webpage with a mandatory 600-heart header/footer, for security.
it’s an example of simpson’s paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❤️ 49% and use tears of joy 😂 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 👍😀🥰😼 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 😂 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
Thanks for this. If you know then you know.
Statistics scare me 😂 ❤️
Poland’s most used emoji being Ukrainian flag is kinda hilarious.
not really, lots of family across these borders
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)
🇵🇱🇺🇦♥️
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.
I don’t think I have ever sent a flag. So it’s wild to me.
Cuntry
cool map but what is up with Kuwait?
