History UsefulNotes / Emojis

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

* GenieInABottle: 🧞

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: 🌈

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: 🧟

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: 🗿

* NoExportForYou: Flag emojis are not selectable on Windows platform.

* BannedInChina: China does not recognize Taiwan, so the Taiwanese flag emoji (🇹🇼) 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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* LuckySeven: 🎰

-->--'''Gene''', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie''

** 🤣,😭 and 🤨 become the most common memetic reactions.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: 🐧

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

* JennysNumber: [=WhatsApp=]'s version of the [[https://emojipedia.org/pager/ Pager emoji]] has the number "867-5309".

** Since emojis originated in Japan, some of them have [[{{Animesque}} distinctive Japanese meanings]] which have mostly been lost in western culture. For example, 💢 means [[CrossPoppingVeins anger]] (not firecrackers), 🙇 is [[JapanesePoliteness bowing]] (not a kid trying to act cute), 💮 is a [[FlowerMotifs stamp of approval]] (not just a flower), 🙏 means please [[JapanesePoliteness please or thank you]] (not praying), and 💨 means dashing away (not farting).

* MartialArtsUniform: 🥋

** The number on Facebook's [[https://emojipedia.org/pager/ Pager emoji]] is the Facebook Customer Support number (without the area code).

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

* FollowTheLeader: Apple started rendering the Pistol emoji (🔫) as a toy gun in 2016, and soon the other major platforms followed suit.

** 🕴️ was originally a character named Walt Jabsco from TheSpecials' album covers.

* The Website/RottenTomatoes critics' for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' is "🚫".

* The Filipino kids' [=YouTube=] channel Keira Charma does the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPkMu1yIN8M emoji challenge]]", where the two kids try to recreate emoji and clip-art expressions.

** 😭 was seen as the most popular crying face emoji and has spawn various mutations based on it.

* JennysNumber: The [[[[https://emojipedia.org/pager/ Pager emoji]] has the number "867-5309" on [=WhatsApp=].

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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: 🦕 🦖

* CardGames: 🃏 (Joker card), 🎴 ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda Hanafuda card]])

* WingdingEyes: 😍 😻 (love), 😵 (dead), 😵‍&#x1F4AB (dizzy), 🤑 (rich), 🤩 (star-struck)

** 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]], ㊗️[[note]]celebration[[/note]]

* WingdingEyes: 😍 (love), 😵 (dizzy), 🤑 (rich), 🤩 (star-struck)

** Efforts to make emojis more inclusive get a lot of political heat. Efforts to add a Hijab emoji and [[https://twitter.com/jenniferdaniel/status/1004427564679458816 make a salad more vegan]] is viewed by some as PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad, while others view them as long overdue.