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The blue heart is the unofficial emoji of libbing out

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The blue heart is the unofficial emoji of libbing out

The blue heart emoji is having a moment among those celebrating Democrats’ midterm election results, and while you can clock this in many a comments section, it’s also backed up by stats.

Tinashe, the pop star, used the emoji 12 times in a post on X on Election Day encouraging her fans to vote, writing, “VOTE OR DIE ! LETS GO AMERICA 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙,” and others have spammed the emoji too in posts “libbing out” in excitement over the midterm results.

Scroll through the comments section on the Democratic Party’s official Instagram account (which posted on the grid nearly 100 times in 24 hours with good news of flipped states and seats) and you’ll see a tsunami of blue hearts. It’s occasionally paired with other emoji expressing joy, like for clapping hands, the U.S. flag, or a wave.

Google searches for the emoji are up 80% from last month, and up 1,050% from the comparable period last year, and they’re highest in Texas and North Carolina, two states where Democrats flipped U.S. House and Senate seats. On Emojitracker, which tracks real-time emoji copies on Emojipedia and GetEmoji, the blue heart emoji outpaced the pink and white hearts by more than two to one on Wednesday. (The red heart emoji, which is used more generally as the standard heart color for love, is the top emoji on the platform.)

Emojis have been adopted to signify political movements or support before, like the emoji for the rose, a longtime socialist symbol that Democratic Socialists of America uses in tweets.


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