Emojis! The very appearance of these pictorial characters in a text chat lights up most of our faces. With various operating systems releasing their own spins of various emojis, they are only getting cuter by the day.
And of late, they seem to form the basis of our expressions. On a personal note, I can never strike a conversation with a person while texting if the other person isn’t using emojis in his/her messages. It puts me off in a jiffy! In fact, by the usage of emojis, I can very clearly create an opinion about the nature of the person. And hey, it’s not just me; there are many, in fact, a lot of them out there who rely on emojis to accurately represent how they’re feeling at that particular moment.
It doesn’t end here. Emojis are also becoming a part of our celebrations and gifting. Who wouldn’t like to be gifted an emoji cushion or an emoji badge or a poster? All of us will love it! There are people out there who are considering emojis as the harbingers of the end of the written world. And then there are another set of people who think that emojis are helping people come out of their closed-off cocoons and shake off their inhibitions in a more soothing manner. Now that I’ve bragged so much about emojis, I want to enlighten your minds with some unknown facts about emojis. Give it a read.
World Emoji Day!
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Yes, peeps, there’s a day when emojis all over the world are celebrated. It’s being celebrated for the last five years and this July 17th, 2019 will be the sixth year of the World Emoji Day celebrations (1). Have you wondered why July 17th? There’s an emoji-explanation for this — have you observed the calendar emoji in your phones? It has July 17th on it, therefore, this day and month were picked as the perfect time for these celebrations. I’m so sure you guys didn’t know about this. Now you know when you can celebrate with your favorite emoji the most in a year, right?
Shigetaka Kurita — The Father Of Emoji
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It was in the year 1999 that Mr. Kurita, a Japanese designer, designed the first set of emojis for cell phones (2). He’d made them for the first ever mobile internet system, called NTT Docomo’s i-mode, which was used back then. The program coined for this allowed a user to only use a maximum of 250 characters in an email. This is why Kurita designed emojis as it would be a better way to easily communicate with less scope for misunderstandings. He made use of a combination of the different everyday symbols, some Chinese characters, manga imagery as inspiration, and few street signs which lead him to create emojis that were 176, 12-pixel by 12-pixel characters. He considers emojis to be useful tools of communication that can transcend languages.
When asked what’s his favorite emoji? His answer was, “<3, Heart.”
Different Platforms Use Different Emojis For The Same Expression
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Okay, I know the subhead sounds a little confusing and must have totally gone above your head (giggles). Therefore, let me explain it to you now. Have you seen the “grin face” emoji? If yours is an iPhone you’ll know how a “grin face” emoji looks like, right? Now, check with your friend who has an android phone and see how the “grin face” emoji looks like in their phone. It’s different, right? Why phones, just log into your Facebook profile and see the “grin face” emoji there. Different platforms — HTC, Google, Mozilla, Samsung, LG etc. have the same “grin face” emoji but they all look different (3). Therefore, the same emoji differs from platform to platform.
Most Used Emoji In The World
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Don’t we all use that emoji which has a “Face with tears of joy?” It’s also the go-to emoji for most of us for use as the laughing or the LOL emoji. For three consecutive years, this particular emoji has been reigning as the most frequently used emoji on social media (especially on Facebook and Twitter). This symbol has been picked up by Oxford as the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year (2015). This emoji has also earned itself a Guinness world record as well (4).
There’s An Emoji Governing Body!
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Not kidding bro! According to my research, there’s the Unicode Consortium which is a governing body that is responsible and also manages the emoji keyboard which we all use (5). At present, there are 2,666 official emojis which are in use as compared to the original 722 which were recorded in 2015. The credit for the increase in the number of emojis goes to the wide array of options available in terms of skin tones, professions, and gender.
Now, that we have given you this treasure chest full of these cool emoji facts, we are sure you all must’ve acquired a newfound respect for these impish characters! Hope they motivate you to write more and express more in the future. Which is your favorite emoji? Drop them in the comments section.
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