The pandemic has affected nearly all aspects of modern life, from the clothes we wear to the food we eat to how we spend our time. There is one thing, however, that has remained almost unchanged: the emojis we send.
疫情几乎影响到了现代生活的方方面面,从我们穿的衣服到我们吃的食物,再到我们打发时间的方式。然而,有一件事几乎没有改变:我们发送的表情符号。
According to data from the Unicode Consortium, the organization that maintains the standards for digital text, nine of the 10 most used emojis from 2019 (which was the last time they released data) also ranked among the top 10 this year. The red heart emoji held the No. 2 spot, and the tears of joy emoji ranked No. 1, despite members of Gen Z deeming it uncool (along with side parts and skinny jeans).
To the people who create and study emojis, the persistence of tears of joy, also known as the laughing-crying emoji, comes as no surprise.
对于创造和研究表情符号的人来说,喜悦的眼泪(也称笑哭)表情的连续上榜并不令人惊讶。
“It speaks to how many people use emoji. If emoji were a purely Gen Z thing, then you wouldn’t see it so highly ranked,” said Alexander Robertson, an emoji researcher at Google. “Because of the sheer number of people using emoji, even if one group thinks something is lame, they have to be a really big group to affect these statistics.”
“这说明很多人都在使用表情符号。如果表情符号纯粹是Z世代的东西,那么你就不会看到它排名如此之高,”谷歌表情符号研究员亚历山大·罗伯逊说。“由于使用表情符号的人数众多,即使有一个群体觉得某个表情蹩脚,那这个群体必须非常大才能影响这些统计数据。”