Happy World Emoji Day 2017! World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17 because that's the date displayed on the iOS calendar emoji.To celebrate this day, we're sharing six fun facts about the emoji!1.) The World Emoji Awards are announced on July 17 each year. You still have time to vote! The announcement will come from the New York Stock Exchange this afternoon. The awards are hosted by Emojipedia. Tap here to vote.2.) Emojis were exported from Japan. The word "emoji" comes from the Japanese word for "picture character." Some of the first emojis are even classified as modern art. A display of the original 176 emojis, designed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, among the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art.3. The most used emoji on Twitter is the Face With Tears of Joy, according to Emoji tracker. The same emoji topped the list of Facebook emojis in the last 30 days, followed by the face with heart eyes and the face throwing a kiss. The Face With Tears of Joy emoji was the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year. The Oxford Dictionaries explained that the pictograph (or emoji) was selected for the word of the year, instead of an actual word, because it "best reflected the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015."4. 60 million emojis are sent every day on Facebook. But that number grows exponentially when people are using the social media giant's Messenger app -- 5 billion emojis are sent every day on messenger. 5. Emojis are definitely a young-person's game. 86% of emoji users on Twitter are 24 and younger. 57% of emoji users on Twitter are female. 6. Emojis are a fast-growing "language" for social media users with 6 billion emojis sent daily and 90% of the world using them on a regular basis. Even so, only around 2,000 emojis currently exist. That's far less than the 470,000 words in the Merriam Webster Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary reports a similar number.