History UsefulNotes / Emojis

** Since emojis were originally just for Japanese smartphone users, they have an outsized Japanese influence. See: 🗾[[note]]No other country has its own map[[/note]], 🗻[[note]]Mount Fuji, Japan[[/note]], 🏣[[note]]Japanese Post Office[[/note]], 🥟[[note]]Dumpling[[/note]], 🎑[[note]]Moon Viewing Ceremony[[/note]], 💮[[note]]In the Apple version has the Japanese text "well done".[[/note]], 🗼[[note]]Tokyo Tower[[/note]], 🏯[[note]]Japanese Castle[[/note]], ⛩️[[note]]Shinto Shrine[[/note]]

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The short "Squintmojis" is devoted to combining emojis in ways that makes them look vaguely like characters from the website, like combining the bathtub, siren, and ''sake'' bottle emojis to form Homestar, or a saxophone, a human ear, and a pink purse to form "'Moji-pan".

* TheScream: 😱 🙀

* VideoGame/AmongUs: ඞ

* CatNinja: 🐱‍👤[[note]]The [[https://emojipedia.org/ninja-cat/ Ninja Cat emoji]] is only rendered by Microsoft.[[/note]]

* DistaffCounterpart: To avoid accusations of sexism, most emojis are either gender neutral or have both male and female counterparts.

[[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; Microsoft Windows as of 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]]]]

** 🖖 references Spock's [[StrangeSalute Vulcan salute]].

* TalkingPoo: 💩 (though it does not actually talk)

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" is a total coincidence.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Some emojis have been given more sexually suggestive meanings. For example, the peach (🍑) and eggplant (🍆) emojis are often used to represent butt and phallus, respectively.

* EyeRoll: 🙄

* CatFolk: The people emojis have cat cartoon counterparts.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' is pretty much Emoji: TheMovie. The film mostly takes place in a smartphone and most of the characters are emojis.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' had [[https://www.adweek.com/creativity/emoji-billboard-deadpool-so-stupid-its-genius-168991/ billboards]] which called the movie "💀💩'''L'''".

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emojisets.png]]
[[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; Microsoft Windows as of 2016; Samsung Galaxy Experience/One UI; [=JoyPixels=] 4.0; 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 2008; au by KDDI. The latter seven sets have been discontinued.[[/note]]]]

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" is probably just a coincidence.

Emojis started becoming popular in Japan in 1999 as a simpler way to send {{emoticon}}s over smartphones. Apple started supporting emojis in 2011, and two years later Android followed suit. Emojis quickly became the trendiest way to send pictures as text.

The Unicode Consortium is responsible for approving new emojis, and [[DependingOnTheArtist different platforms decide how they will render each one]]. Every year Unicode approves a hundred or so new emojis. In 2015, Unicode added the option to change the skin tone of people emojis, and the group has pushed for adding emojis more representative of all the people who use them. For example, in 2019 Unicode announced the addition of emojis which represent different disabilities.

* FiveFiveFive: Used in [[https://emojipedia.org/pager/ some versions]] of the Pager emoji (📟).

* FandomBerserkButton: The Internet can get really riled up when it finds something "wrong" with an emoji. In 2017, netizens got really worked up when they realized Android's cheeseburger emoji ''put the cheese below the patty'', and its beer emoji ''has foam even though the mug isn't full''.