During Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony, we asked you to answer a series of questions on BuzzFeed using only emoji. Over the period of a few hours, we received hundreds of thousands of responses, tens of thousands of distinct emoji sequences, and a whopping 10 million emojis. Here's what we learned.
1. This is us: ๐ญ ๐ฉ ๐ก ๐ ๐ฑ and ๐.
These were the most commonly used emojis: ๐ ๐ญ ๐ฉ ๐ก ๐บ ๐ ๐ธ ๐ฑ ๐
One of the most surprisingly popular emoji was this turtle: ๐ข. It typically appeared with either a banknote (๐ต) or the US flag (๐บ๐ธ).
These were some of the most popular emoji pairs:
- Man ๐จ + woman ๐ฉ
- Loudly crying face ๐ญ + pouting face ๐ก
- Heavy black heart โค + woman ๐ฉ
2. The official Donald J. Trump emoji is ๐ก.
3. ๐บ๐ธ bridges the divide!
The full network graph is pretty amazing.
4. Skin tone emojis are ๐ฅ.
5. You're pretty clever with your emoji sequences.
These emoji sequences consistently came up in your answers to the question "What are the greatest things about America today?"
โค๐๐๐๐
๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก๐ก
๐ณ๐๐ณ๐๐ณ๐๐ณ๐
โคโคโคโคโคโคโคโค
โโ๐ปโ๐ผโ๐ฝโ๐พโ๐ฟ
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
These emoji sequences consistently came up in your answers to the question "What are the most important issues in the US today?"
โค๐๐๐๐
๐ฐ๐ฝโป๐โฎ๐ป๐๐
โ๐ปโ๐ผโ๐ฝโ๐พโ๐ฟ
๐จ๐ฟ๐ฉ๐ฟ๐ซ
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐๐ฅ
And...can you help me decipher this one?
๐ ฟ๐ พ๐ พ๐ ฟ๐๐ ๐ ?
6. No one knows what the Russian flag looks like.
7. So many ways to say "Canada, here we come."
๐บ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ
๐๐จ๐ฆ
๐บ๐ธ๐๐จ๐ฆ
๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฝ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ
๐๐จ๐จ๐ฆ
8. ๐ พ๐ ฑ๐ ฐใฝ๐ ฐ๐๐
I'll leave you with that, and also these two open positions on our Data Science team!