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[[caption-width-right:350:The infamous "[[CryLaughing Face with Tears of Joy]]" emoji as seen in various sets[[note]]L-R, top-bottom: Apple iOS; Android Oreo/Pie; Android Nougat; Website/{{Twitter}} Twemoji; UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows 10 since 2016; Samsung Galaxy Experience/One UI; [=JoyPixels=] 5.0; Website/{{Facebook}} as of 2018; [=WhatsApp=]; [=OpenMoji=]; Android [=KitKat=]/Lollipop/Marshmallow; Android Jelly Bean; Microsoft Windows before 2016; Samsung Galaxy Touchwiz; [=JoyPixels=] 3.1; [=JoyPixels=] 2.2; Facebook before 2018; Firefox Emoji; Facebook Messenger; LG; HTC; Softbank 2014; Softbank before 2008; au by KDDI. The latter seven sets have been discontinued.[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The infamous "[[CryLaughing Face with Tears of Joy]]" emoji as seen in various sets[[note]]L-R, top-bottom: Apple iOS; Android Oreo/Pie; Android Nougat; Website/{{Twitter}} Twemoji; UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Platform/MicrosoftWindows 10 since 2016; Samsung Galaxy Experience/One UI; [=JoyPixels=] 5.0; Website/{{Facebook}} as of 2018; [=WhatsApp=]; [=OpenMoji=]; Android [=KitKat=]/Lollipop/Marshmallow; Android Jelly Bean; Microsoft Windows before 2016; Samsung Galaxy Touchwiz; [=JoyPixels=] 3.1; [=JoyPixels=] 2.2; Facebook before 2018; Firefox Emoji; Facebook Messenger; LG; HTC; Softbank 2014; Softbank before 2008; au by KDDI. The latter seven sets have been discontinued.[[/note]]]]



Emojis started becoming popular in Japan in 1999 as a simpler way to send {{emoticon}}s over smartphones. Creator/{{Apple}} started supporting emojis in 2008 initially for Japanese users only, and in 2011 for the rest of the world. UsefulNotes/{{Android}} and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] followed suit two years later. Emojis quickly became the trendiest way to send pictures as text over the internet.

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Emojis started becoming popular in Japan in 1999 as a simpler way to send {{emoticon}}s over smartphones. Creator/{{Apple}} started supporting emojis in 2008 initially for Japanese users only, and in 2011 for the rest of the world. UsefulNotes/{{Android}} Platform/{{Android}} and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] followed suit two years later. Emojis quickly became the trendiest way to send pictures as text over the internet.



* ProductPlacement: The video game emoji (๐ŸŽฎ), which takes the form of a gamepad, is an UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} [[UsefulNotes/XboxOne Wireless]] [[UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS Controller]] on Microsoft platforms, with [[https://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/source/skype/289/video-game_1f3ae.png Skype's (animated!) version]] more explicitly showing it to be the first version of the controller that came with the Xbox One.

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* ProductPlacement: The video game emoji (๐ŸŽฎ), which takes the form of a gamepad, is an UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} [[UsefulNotes/XboxOne Platform/{{Xbox}} [[Platform/XboxOne Wireless]] [[UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS [[Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS Controller]] on Microsoft platforms, with [[https://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/source/skype/289/video-game_1f3ae.png Skype's (animated!) version]] more explicitly showing it to be the first version of the controller that came with the Xbox One.
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* The Website/{{Wattpad}} user [=YarnStore=] made [[https://www.wattpad.com/105027268-the-book-written-entirely-out-of-emojis-the-book a story]] using emojis and punctuation.

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* The Website/{{Wattpad}} Platform/{{Wattpad}} user [=YarnStore=] made [[https://www.wattpad.com/105027268-the-book-written-entirely-out-of-emojis-the-book a story]] using emojis and punctuation.
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* VisualInnuendo: The "eggplant" and "peach" emojis are almost never used without being one of these for a penis or a butt respectively.
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* PandaingToTheAudience: ๐Ÿผ

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* FarSideIsland: ๐Ÿ๏ธ is a small island with a palm tree on it.

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* FarSideIsland: ๐Ÿ๏ธ is a small island with a palm tree on it. The island is barely bigger than the tree itself.

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* TheFaceOfTheSun: ๐ŸŒž
* {{Facepalm}}: ๐Ÿคฆ
* FarSideIsland: ๐Ÿ๏ธ
* FascinatingEyebrow: ๐Ÿคจ

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* TheFaceOfTheSun: ๐ŸŒž
๐ŸŒž is a cartoon sun with a smiling face on it.
* {{Facepalm}}: ๐Ÿคฆ
๐Ÿคฆ is a person with closed eyes putting a hand on their face.
* FarSideIsland: ๐Ÿ๏ธ
๐Ÿ๏ธ is a small island with a palm tree on it.
* FascinatingEyebrow: ๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿคจ is a face with one eyebrow raised.



* JollyRoger: ๐Ÿด‍โ˜ ๏ธ

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* JollyRoger: ๐Ÿด‍โ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿด‍โ˜ ๏ธ is a black flag with a skull and crossbones on it.
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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, and trying to display or insert country flags there would only shows letters from respective countries.

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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, platforms, and trying to display or insert country flags there would only shows letters from respective countries.countries. (They will still show up on apps and services such as Discord, which have their own design sets embedded.)
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** ๐Ÿ•ด๏ธ was originally a character named Walt Jabsco from TheSpecials' album covers, who ended up in the Webdings font which is how it came to emoji.

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** ๐Ÿ•ด๏ธ was originally a character named Walt Jabsco from TheSpecials' Music/TheSpecials' album covers, who ended up in the Webdings font which is how it came to emoji.

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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: โœจ ๐Ÿ’–

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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: โœจ ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’– (sparkling heart)



* JollyRoger: ๐Ÿด‍โ˜ ๏ธ



* {{Pirate}}: ๐Ÿด‍โ˜ ๏ธ



* BannedInChina: China does not recognize Taiwan, so the Taiwanese flag emoji (๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ) is blocked there. This has caused some problems with Apple's [=iOS=], [[https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-censorship-bug-caused-iphone-crashes-when-receiving-taiwan-flag-emoji/ causing some phones to crash when it's displayed]].

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* BannedInChina: Since China does not doesn't recognize Taiwan, so the Taiwanese flag emoji (๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ) is blocked there. This has caused some problems with Apple's [=iOS=], [[https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-censorship-bug-caused-iphone-crashes-when-receiving-taiwan-flag-emoji/ causing some phones to crash when it's displayed]].
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Per TRS, this was renamed to Incidental Multilingual Wordplay and moved to Trivia


Emojis are one-character pictures used to convey a wide range of emotions, people, things, and locations. The word comes from [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseLanguage Japanese]] ''e'' ("picture") + ''moji'' ("character"), and its resemblance to the English word "emotion" [[LuckyTranslation is a total coincidence]].

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Emojis are one-character pictures used to convey a wide range of emotions, people, things, and locations. The word comes from [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseLanguage Japanese]] ''e'' ("picture") + ''moji'' ("character"), and its resemblance to the English word "emotion" [[LuckyTranslation [[IncidentalMultilingualWordplay is a total coincidence]].
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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, and trying to display or insert flags there would only shows letters from respective countries or flags.

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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, and trying to display or insert country flags there would only shows letters from respective countries or flags.countries.
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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, and trying to display or insert flags would only shows letters from respective countries.

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* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are unavailable on Windows platform, and trying to display or insert flags there would only shows letters from respective countries.countries or flags.

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