Top 10 Underused Emoji
It's impossible to claim that the creation of emoji hasn't transformed the way we communicate digitally. However, with such a wide variety of colorful little pictures available to us, it makes sense that some would be used less often than others. The following are the ones I feel are the most criminally underutilized; I would encourage you to start finding creative ways to insert these emoji into your conversations, lest we lose them entirely.
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10. Garlic
Adding heaping spoonfuls of this stuff to whatever you're cooking immediately makes it taste twenty times better. I don't understand why we're not applying this principal to our conversations, too.
9. Flag of Burkina Faso
Weird that none of my friends ever show their Burkina Faso pride in any of our group chats.
8. Two-Thirty
Let's face it: all of the time-telling emoji clocks are too small to read and too cumbersome to use effectively. However, Two-Thirty suffers far more heavily than its compatriots due to being skipped over once every year when Daylight Savings Time sees all of our clocks jumping straight from the 2 o'clock to the 3 o'clock hour. If Daylight Savings Time isn't abolished soon, this emoji will slowly fade into complete obscurity.
7. Love Hotel
I can't comment on how often or not this one is used; I'm just surprised to see it even exists. How the hell did this even make it past the committee? Somebody must have snuck it through as a joke, right???
6. Buffalo
Of course nobody uses the Buffalo emoji. There isn't one. This is a Bison, you ignorant clod.
5. Woman and Man Holding Hands
Displaying any amount of affection for your lady is true beta behavior. Instead, try using the Men Holding Hands emoji to show how tight you are with your bros.
4. Fleur-de-lis
Come on folks, it's 1789! Who wouldn't want to associate themselves with the French aristocracy in this day and age?!
3. Eye In Speech Bubble
Eyes don't talk.
2. Badminton
Look, I know we've made pickleball the hot new thing, but I took a badminton class in college and y'all are sleeping on badminton. You know you can play that shit in your backyard?
1. Eggplant
In fairness, I just can't think of one reason anybody would ever use this. Name one person who ever talks about eggplant. Absolute dud of an emoji.
Honorable Mention: Happy Face
The underuse of this emoji is justified since there is nothing to be happy about about anymore.