How Emojis Were Made Funny Trump
Emojis are useful not only when you lot desire to limited your feelings or emotions, they besides could be used as a symbol for some topic, move, or problem.
And they are often used for that.
Take you heard how On 18 June 2020 Facebook removed Trump ads displaying 🔻Cerise Triangle Pointed Downwardly? Was it used as a Nazi political prisoners symbol by the Trump campaign or by his opponents?
Or how the ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿Raised Fist Emojis used a symbol for Blackness Lives Matter move?
Or the 🌈Rainbow first and then afterward 2016, the 🏳️🌈Rainbow Flag emojis are used as a symbol for Pride / LGBTQ+?
And just recently the 🎗️Reminder Ribbon was actively used in October as Chest Cancer Awareness Month.
Have you wondered how are emojis used in political campaigns?
To scratch that topic a bit, nosotros have conducted an analysis of over 1M tweets related to the US Presidential election 2020.
Data:
Tweets were collected between 2 Oct 2020 and 16 Oct 2020.
Total tweets nerveless: 1,141,002.
Full emojis counted in tweets: 350,493.
Unique emojis used: one,779.
Keywords:
The list of keywords was taken from Public Twitter Dataset on the 2020 US Presidential Election.
Later on tweets were collected, they were grouped and analyzed by half-dozen different groups of keywords related to:
- Donald Trump:
['@realDonaldTrump', 'donaldtrump', 'donaldjtrump', 'donald j trump', 'donald trump', 'don trump', 'trump', 'trump', '#DonaldTrump', 'PresidentTrump', 'MAGA', 'trump2020', 'DumpTrump', 'NeverTrump', 'Trump'].
It's the nearly massive grouping with 786,442 tweets in our sample. - Donald Trump campaign:
['MAGA', 'trump2020', 'Trump2020', 'Trump', 'RNC2020', 'KAG', 'MAGA2020', 'Trump2020Landslide', 'AmericaFirst', 'KAG2020', 'TulsaTrumpRally', 'VoteRedToSaveAmerica', 'VoteRed', 'TrumpPence2020'].
This group has 731,055 tweets and there is a large overlap with the previous group. - Mike Pence:
['mike pence', 'michael pence', 'mikepence', 'michaelpence', '@Mike_Pence', 'Mike Pence'].
The smallest grouping in our sample with only 4,775 tweets. - Joe Biden:
['@JoeBiden', 'joe biden', 'joebiden', 'biden', 'Sleepy Joe', 'Sleepyjoe', 'HidenBiden', 'CreepyJoeBiden', 'NeverBiden', 'BidenUkraineScandal'].
There are 95,551 tweets in the group. - Joe Biden campaign:
['DemConvention', 'BidenHarris2020', 'Biden2020', 'Democrats', 'VoteBlueToSaveAmerica', 'VoteBlue', 'JoeBiden', 'Biden', 'WakeUpAmerica'].
With 210,868 tweets, this grouping is twice every bit much as Joe Biden's group, so for amend accuracy, nosotros will compare Donald Trump's entrada vs Joe Biden campaign. - Kamala Harris:
['kamala harris', 'kamala', 'kamalaharris', '@KamalaHarris', '@SenKamalaHarris'].
This group has 17001 tweets.
Top 10 Emojis
Figure 1: Top 10 emojis in the Donald Trump entrada and Joe Biden entrada (JBC) groups.
The 🇺🇸 Flag: The states emoji is the most pop emoji in the Donald Trump campaign group (15.00% of tweets) and is in second place(10.83%) in the Joe Biden campaign grouping.
The 🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing and the 😂 Face with Tears of Joy emojis are constantly ane of the most used on Twitter. Information technology worth to annotation those have higher ranks in Biden's group.
The 🙏 Folded Hands emoji is in 3rd place in the Trump campaign grouping (seven.52%) and simply on 8 in Biden's (2.08%). Things are even more interesting if we will count it together with 🙏🏻 Folded Hands: Light Skin Tone, with 6th rank in Trump (one.82%) and 29 in Biden grouping (0.53%). Information technology volition climb to the 2nd place in Trump campaign group with a ix.34% share and to 5th place in Biden with a 2.61% share.
Does information technology mean that people who tweeted using the Trump campaign group keywords are more religious? If we look at the 🙏🏼Folded Hands: Medium-Lite Skin Tone and the ✝️Latin Cross emojis share in the sample, it will be more than twice larger in the Donald Trump campaign tweets group.
The ❤️ Red Heart is in quaternary place in Trump campaign group (6.11%) and on fifth in Biden(2.44%). It'southward widely used every bit one of the near pop emoji across Twitter, merely have a much bigger share in Trump campaign tweets as ruddy color is associated with Republicans.
When the 💙 Blueish Middle emoji is non so popular as ❤️ Scarlet Heart on Twitter in general, but when it comes to the Autonomous party this emoji is in 4th identify, and just on thirteen in Trump campaign tweets.
One emoji that looks quite organically at the elevation in those politically related tweets is the 🤔 Thinking Face.
The 🌊 Water Wave is used as the symbol for a "Blue Wave" by Democratic Party supporters and is in 7th identify in Biden campaign group.
The 👍 Thumbs Up ranked eight in Trump campaign group and eleven in Biden.
And the 🙄 Face with Rolling Eyes and the 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down are the only emojis with the same rank in both groups.
What is in the Peak xv
Trump campaign
Effigy ii: Height xv emojis in the Donald Trump entrada group.
The emoji from eleven to fifteen rank:
- 🤡 Clown Face
- 😷Face with Medical Mask
- 💙 Blueish Heart
- ♥️ Heart Suit
- 🇺🇲Flag: U.South. Outlying Islands
EmojiCloud with top 100 emojis in Trump campaign tweets group:
Biden campaign
Effigy three: Top 15 emojis in the Joe Biden campaign grouping.
The emoji from eleven to xv rank:
- 👍 Thumbs Upwardly
- 🤡 Clown Face
- 👏Clapping Hands
- 😷Face with Medical Mask
- 😡Pouting Face
EmojiCloud with top 100 emojis in Biden campaign tweets group:
Kamala Harris
Effigy four: Top 15 emojis in the Kamala Harris group.
Hither are some differences from other tweets groups.
The 👏Clapping Easily emoji is in 8th place.
The 🤮Confront Vomiting on 9th place, thanks to vii hateful tweets to @KamalaHarris, that have spammed that emoji in the text.
The 📉Chart Decreasing emoji on 13th identify here compared to 100+ in other groups.
EmojiCloud with acme 100 emojis in Kamala Harris tweets group:
Mike Pence
Effigy 5: Top 15 emojis in the Mike Pence group.
The 🍑Peach is in 5th place mainly thanks to the tweets like:
Permit'S Register TO VOTE, AZ, FL, GA, OH, & TX‼️‼️
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The ‼️ Double Exclamation Marker that is often used to express stupor took 8th place.
EmojiCloud with top 100 emojis in Mike Pence tweets grouping:
Sentiment analysis
We made sentiment assay for each tweet group using the pretrained Logistic Regression model from Kaggle with 82% accuracy.
Note: This model is doing rough estimations.
The model predicts 0 if it thinks a tweet is negative, or one if positive.
Results:
Figure 6: Boilerplate sentiment predictions for Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris tweet groups.
We hope yous found this analysis insightful. More research will exist coming shortly.
From the team at Emojigraph 🤍🇺🇸🤍
Source: https://emojigraph.org/blog/us-elections-2020/