When looking at the top 10 emojis of 2020 (😂😭🥺🤣✨😍🙏🥰😊), nearly all are found alongside ❤️ Red Heart. Popular emojis are most commonly used in positive emotional contexts, and are frequently used in combination. [4] Other emojis that include hearts like 🥰 Smiling Face with Hearts, 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes and particularly 💏 Kiss and 💑 Couple with Heart? These all sufficiently complex in their own ways, and not included in this analysis.

Each heart has subtle nuances both in how it is used, and what that represents. Yet intrinstically each heart has no more coded meaning than what meets the eye. It's worth noting that that each heart looks different on each platform. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

This isn't the case on the Pixel and other Android devices using Gboard or the Android Messages app keyboard[ Heart Suit is shown in a separate part of the emoji keyboard on phones from Apple and Samsung, which might affect how often it is used.

What we want to focus on are the emojis which have the classic heart ideograph as the core design element. Just discovered a more male-appropriate heart emoji. ♥️. From the card suits. Not so ❤. 💋— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) April 7, 2017 Some other trends come to light here. 🥺 Pleading Face is the most common emoji found alongside a heart emoji. This makes sense, as this emoji has become incredibly popular in the past few years. It might also imply that there's a lot of simps out there, filling up your mentions. This heart appears in 8 of every 1,000 tweets throughout the year, appearing more than twice as often as 💕 Two Hearts, the next most popular heart emoji in our sample of tweets.As for whether John Mayer is right about about one of the red hearts being more masculine than the other? Let's see what the data tells us. 📊💟 Heart Popularity Rather than just using inserting a Blue Heart, people will often use a a yellow, green and purple heart alongside it. We can also see that ❤️ Red Heart is a popular emoji to place alongside birthday wishes ("birthday" is the 4th most common word to be used with this emoji).