Discord is a platform with over 200 million monthly active users globally, playing and talking all year ‘round, with each person hing their own unique groups of friends, chat history, sets of blursed emojis, and inside jokes that live on in their hearts for eons to come.
If we smooshed @everyone’s servers, DMs, and conversations into one GIANT chat, we’d get some BIG numbers for 2025. Take a gander at all the messages and reactions you’ve sent and posted this year alone:
It’s like reading this sentence 744 BILLION times. Or 744 billion individual words to form sentences from the friend who always sends. messages. like. this. pinging. you. each. time. ba-doop. ba-doop.
All these conversations he one thing in common: emojis. Sometimes even custom emoji! We brought a friend to meticulously count all the emojis used on the platform this year (aka Nelly, who has been counting one-by-one with her fingers for months), and we’ve figured out that the most-used emoji on Discord in 2025 is…
…the ❤️red heart! Omg how sweet. Y’all must really love your friends.
Discord’s top five emoji in 2025 also include sob 😭 and joy 😂, which are probably being paired together in posts or used multiple times in a row like 😭😭😭😂😂.
The fire 🔥 is in the top five most-used emojis for the first time this year; it wasn’t part of Discord’s top five between 2021 and 2024. It’s likely either been used for great things like “🔥🔥🔥that clutch Ace was SICK” or not-so-great things “yo this straight-up sucks. 🔥🔥🔥”
Rounding things out is the not-so-round green tick box ✅, likely being used when larger communities post their server’s rules, or by your friend who’s been really on top of their game this year and posting “done ✅” as they slowly wade through their backlog.
Speaking of games, y’all he played a LOT of them this year. (Yeah, big shocker, we know.) But across Discord, you’ve been playing these games the most:
League of Legends continues to dominate after over sixteen years. In some places around the world, LoL is old enough to get a driver’s license. Make sure League knows that staying in the lane is part of driving, and NOT jungling.
Rematch, a competitive 5v5 football game played from an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective rather than the top-down view you’ll see in most other football games, is one of the fastest-growing games across all of Discord. (It’s the cooler football btw, aka “soccer.”)
R.E.P.O., the most popular indie game on Discord, pairs really well with the many hours you spent in voice chat, with lots of planning, screaming, and laughing. And laughing at your friends screaming. Ya’know, the usual R.E.P.O. chaos.
Marvel Rivals brings teams of six together for coordinated teamfights and clutch plays. And nowadays, there’s even a new PvE mode to “relax” in between competitive matches and a “chill” map where up to 100 people can walk around, vibe, emote, and hang out… sounds perfect for Discord!
Minecraft is a creative landscape where people can play how they want, whether they’re enjoying a traditional game mode like Survival or playing a community-run server’s mode with their own rules. Minecraft enjoyers play the game in wildly different ways from space to space.
Genshin Impact can be enjoyed both solo and in coop, but no matter the party size, the community comes to talk about the latest character meta, how they’ve conquered RNG on their artifacts, or flex their double 5-star character pulls.
How do these six titles compare to your gaming habits? Your top five most-played games are part of your Checkpoint, so go take a peek and see if any of Discord’s most popular games on the platform appear in your own wrap-up!
