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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Well they did get their data from geotagged tweets, which I imagine skews the results just a bit towards nationalism.
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)
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.
I want to know why Trinidad, indonesia, Uruguay and Chile have 🤣 where as most of the world does 😂
An incredibly well-done graphic, very easy to understand and flows nicely. I wonder why Saudi Arabia has more use of white hearts specifically.
😂 is the most used emoji in England, Wales, and Scotland. In Northern Ireland it's ♥️ yet this is also the most used in the UK. So either the data is wrong or Northern Ireland is pumping those numbers UP.
If you live there, either you're antigua (meaning ancient woman) or you're barbuda (meaning woman with a beard). There's just no winning.
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This graph was made from geotagged tweets.
Presumably that's why the flags are so popular as well, I doubt Belgians are sending Belgian flags to one another in the DM's. Or maybe they do, I wouldn't know.
I was thinking this exact thing.
Yeah far right nationalism definitely is a thing but I don't remember ever seeing someone texting the flag and I know quite a few nationalists.
Does geo tagging work based on IP because if so, then the Iran one is bullshit as you can't access Twitter in Iran
Reminder that "national boundaries with mercator projection" maps are, while on the surface interesting, on a meaningful enough level are less useful due to sheer degree of variance. Small (sized) countries get buried to thr point of not being visible, while large (populated) countries get over-generalised to the point of meaninglessness.
How does the UK have the ❤️ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was 😂.
it's an example of simpson's paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❤️ 49% and use tears of joy 😂 at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart ❤️at 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over
even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart ❤️ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji 👍😀🥰😼 at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart ❤️ is still the most used across the UK
now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy 😂 is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that's 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it's no wonder funky effects show up
Volume. They only use heart emojis in morse code to communicate all their messages in NI. Also the entire government website and all companies start and end their webpage with a mandatory 600-heart header/footer, for security.