$re = '/(?<!\w)#WorldEmojiDay(?!\w)/i';
$str = 'Fall in love with #PepsiMoji! Celebrate #WorldEmojiDay by downloading our keyboard @ http://bit.ly/pepsiKB & take your text game up a notch. - teacher';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);
// Print the entire match result
var_dump($matches);
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