This Is What Millennials Actually Use Venmo For

Fewer eggplants are sent on the mobile payments app than you'd expect.
Photographer: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images
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Pizza. Beer. Rogue eggplant? These are the emojis, small digital images, that delineate what users of the much-beloved mobile payment app Venmo spend money on, according to a recent study of transaction descriptions.

After analyzing more than 500,000 public Venmo payments, researchers at student loan marketplace LendEdu determined that a slice of pizza and a small flying stack of money were the most frequently used emojis.