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This article focuses on the emergence of emoji's and how widespread it has become. The first emoji alphabet was created in 2008, and adopted in 2011 by Apple. Even though emoji have only been around for a short time, it has gained huge popularity. Some of its successes are that it was crowned as this years' top-trending word by the Global Language Monitor, and was even added to the Oxford dictionary. According to an emoji tracker by twitter, "people are averaging 250 to 350 emoji tweets a second," showing how culturally diverse emoji has become. Although emoji are rapidly increasing in popularity, it is still not considered its own language because it has been criticized as being too limited. However, it is sure to gain more support in the mere future and maybe even replace some of the English language, as emoji's are said to be used as punctuation, emphasis, and as a replacement for words or to replace words altogether.