Tinder gave to know the favorite emojis of users to communicate and connect with other people in their applicationamong which are the wink and those who represent laughter grimaces and the classic Red heartas the most appealed by users, although it also warned about the use of the sleeping face or pleading, which can lead to Ghosting.
Emojis are one of the most used communication methods in the digital environment and, on the occasion of the World Emoji Daywhich is celebrated every July 17, the dating platform wanted to reveal the emojis that have best worked in Tinder during these months of 2025, since 20 percent of the first messages shared in the application include at least one emoji.
In fact, Spain is among the countries that lead the tendency to use emoticons in the application, together with the United States, Brazil, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, whose users use these symbols to help represent their facial expressions, as well as communicate their mood or tone of the message, either to joke, connect or transmit their anger.
Thus, among the most requested emoticons when configuring the user’s biography in their profile, the emojis appears With a face winking, that of the red heart, the smiling face, the one that represents brightness, and the one that symbolizes a face laughing, Tinder said in a press release.
As for the most used in the messages, those that represent faces of laughter are the most appealed, while the emoticon with the face smiling with a drop of sweat is also widely used by users. They also appear smiling with smiling eyes, and that of the smile open with smiling eyes.
Widely used in generation Z
On the other hand, Tinder showed that, almost a quarter of the users of the platform that include emojis in their biography, are between 18 and 25 years old, which shows that, although the tone has changed and are now used with more “irony”, the emojis have not disappeared for generation Z.
On the other hand, not all emojis generate the same effect, since although the hand greeting, that of the smiling face, as well as that of the face laughing and the red heart, are the most used in the first messages to start a conversation, there are others that are usually more frequent before a person does ‘ghosting’.
Emojis that usually cause someone to suffer this practice, which refers to the way in which a person suddenly ends a relationship with another, without prior notice or explanation, They are usually the one with steam face coming out of the nose, that of the face with a gesture of “kiss”, the sleeping face, which shows perseverance, or the supplicant.
Tinder also mentioned that peach and eggplant emojis can almost reduce the possibilities of exchanging contact data.
