In a general sample of 13 million tweets, 18,408 included at least one ✊ Raised Fist emoji, with 71% being the neutral yellow version, which appears when no skin tone is specified.Ībove: ✊ Raised Fist use on Twitter, for a general sample of tweets. When compared to a general tweet sample, the difference is notable.
❤️ Red Heart and ? Purple Heart compound this expression of support. ? Black Heart can be used as a symbol of solidarity and support for and amongst black communities. The second most common emoji, ? Loudly Crying Face, appears less than half as often in these tweets as any raised fist. Read on for details of the breakdown of skin tone usage for this emoji.
This data combines all skin tone variations for any relevant emoji into a single entry, why may explain the considerably higher usage numbers for this emoji. The ✊ Raised Fist emoji was the most popular emoji used. Ībove: the top ten most frequently used emojis on our sample of 278,244 Black Lives Matter tweets.Īcross these ten emojis we see clear themes of solidarity, support, and sadness. These tweets were collected between on 4th and 5th of June 2020 and, upon investigation, 11.79% of this sample (32,814 tweets) featured at least one emoji. To conduct this analysis we collected a sample of 278,244 tweets that included "Black Lives Matter" and "BLM" either as a hashtag or as a text string. Trending: ✊? Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone #BlackLivesMatter /tOEVGYtftF- Emojipedia ? June 1, 2020Įmulating the historic gesture of support and solidarity, this emoji has a long-standing association with the Black Lives Matter movement.Įmojipedia has conducted an analysis of the raised fist emoji along with related emojis and hashtags, to better understand the response to this trajedy and the ensuing conversation online. Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality, Emojipedia experienced a signification increase in lookups of the ✊? Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone emoji.