Axios Boston readers pick as unofficial city emoji

More than 500 of you voted for your favorite unofficial emoji to represent Boston and the winner is:

• The celebrity of the seafloor, the bright red hope, the Brahmin bottom feeder itself — yes, the lowly lobster: 🦞
• The lobster emoji got nearly a full quarter of the vote, enough to beat out runner-up 🍀 and third-place finisher 🎓

The final tally: 🦞23.5%

• 🍀19.6%
• 🎓15.5%
• 🫖14.8%
• 🦆13.9%
• 🍩5.4%
• 🫘4.4%
• 🩺2.9%

Thank you to everyone who suggested candidate emojis and voted in the poll.

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