Contract: 5bgQm2EEv2GZ3jTPcMZz3CqGNLhsf4HfPSF4zSYFpump
Based on 😭 being the most popular emoji of 2025. It beat out 🤣 and 😂, largely because younger generations see laughing emojis as outdated — something only older people use. ❤️ and 🙏 also made the top five. Meanwhile 🥀 has surged, with Generation Z and Gen Alpha increasingly using it instead of 💔.
- all-time high: ~$300k
Origin post
The narrative traces to a 20 August 2026 post from NEXTA (@nexta_tv), which reported that the loudly crying face was the most popular emoji of 2025 at roughly 6.5% of all emoji used, ahead of the rolling-on-the-floor-laughing and face-with-tears-of-joy emojis. The post accumulated more than 182,000 views and supplied the reference the token was built around.
