150 points

In life you either cry, laugh, love or succumb to raging nationalism.

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77 points

Or, in case of Japan, sparkle

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37 points

and whatever the Kuwaitis think the pin 📍 emoji means

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I believe that’s a stop sign.

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Oh. I thought that was a lollipop. This changes things.

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21 points

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Awesoma powa! Disrespectful to dirt!

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I’m having a tough time trying to read that, the first part is obviously 「ミスター スパーコル!」 (“misutā supākoru!”/mister sparkle) but the second part is hard to read, I think it says 「ハワー ワリーソ!」(“hawā warīso!”) but it doesn’t make any sense to me. Maybe the ハ is just missing a handakuten and it’s supposed to say “pawā”/power? But idk what the second one is supposed to be. Maybe クリーン (“kurīn”/clean)? But that’s a stretch.

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22 points

Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.

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4 points

Unless you’re Poland

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84 points

Poland’s most used emoji being Ukrainian flag is kinda hilarious.

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45 points

🇵🇱🇺🇦♥️

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15 points

not really, lots of family across these borders

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11 points

Data was likely sourced during the war, and Poland is one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine (in part because they fear they might be next)

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59 points

Shout out to all the tiny islands who apparently do nothing but send their own flag to each other all day. We see you lite buddies.

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I don’t think I have ever sent a flag. So it’s wild to me.

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39 points

Japan has the only semi-interesting one.

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Kuwait has something unique too 📍

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5 points

What is it and why do they use it?

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3 points

And Laos 🥰

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I can’t believe there’s no 💀

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Genz won’t be a majority for another couple decades. Millennials and older don’t use it as much.

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3 points

💀

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