Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" and "fist bump" symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day . World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because ...

The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect for moments of shock and horror. But, in the end, no emoji was better suited for the ups and downs 2022 than the saluting face.