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A sticker is not an emoji, and they behave differently

An emoji is a character. It lives inside your text, counts toward a character limit, and every device draws its own version of it. A sticker is an image file, usually animated, that sits beside your text as an attachment. That difference decides where each one works. Stickers are rich and expressive in a chat window and completely useless in a username, a document or anywhere that only accepts text. If what you need has to go inside a line of writing, you want an emoji.

Where these come from

The stickers on this page are served from GIPHY, which is why the selection shifts from day to day and why searching here returns the same results you would find in the sticker picker built into many messaging apps. We fetch the trending set on the server so the grid is already filled when the page loads rather than appearing a second later. Nothing is stored on our side, and the artwork belongs to whoever uploaded it.

Animated stickers and file size

Most of these are animated GIFs, which means a single sticker can be a few hundred kilobytes against an emoji’s handful of bytes. On a slow connection that is the difference between instant and noticeable. It also means some platforms re-encode or flatten them, so an animation that loops here may arrive as a still frame elsewhere. Worth testing once with whoever you are sending to rather than assuming it survived.

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