A Picture That Saves A Thousand Words

At one time or the other, we have all sent a text containing only emojis 😜. We can thank Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita who in 1999 created the initial 176 emojis 🎨. Emojis exploded in Japan during the 1990s as a way to convey complex statements or emotions in a simple picture or pictures 💥. Literally, the word emoji means picture character 🖼️. Thanks to Apple’s iOS 5 release in 2011 the use of emojis went globally 🌎 and were soon adapted by cultures everywhere 🤝. Standards approved by Unicode ♾️, who maintains the text standards across devices, have expanded the emoji set. By 2015 emojis were added as part of release 8.0 allowing them to be usable across multiple platforms 📱. More emojis will be added in 2023 🆕, the last were just added in 2022 including an empty nest and different colored hearts 💚💙🖤. Like languages emojis are also evolving 🔄. For example, the flag of the United States only had thirty-five stars 🌟, it was corrected to the fifty the flag has now, and the Vulcan salute emoji was modified to avoid any trademark issues with Star Trek 🖖. There are now over 3,600 individual emojis in the Unicode Standard 🤯.

The most popular emojis are those that help explain or clarify emotions 😂. For example, the most popular emoji is the face with tears of joy 😭😂. The emotional emojis can reflect anger 😡, heartache 💔 and even frustration 😫. Many users combine them in streams to get complicated messages out quickly ⚡️. This stream of consciousness is now a fundamental feature of digital communication 🔁 and over 10 billion emojis are used every day on Facebook Messager alone 📲. The world of digital communication was changed by the emergence of emojis 🌎.

Artificial Intelligence is also influencing the use and creation of emojis 🤖. Current AI technology can interpret how and why emojis are being used 🧠. AI is recommending ways to combine current emojis and create new ones as their use continually expands and changes 🚀. Training is being done with machine learning models on the datasets to even start understanding the nuances in using and the meanings behind unconventional combinations 🧐. It almost seems that emojis and AI are a match made in digital heaven 🤝.

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At first, many phone users were annoyed by the perceived overuse of emojis 😒. Similarly, some are pushing back on the adoption of AI and the ramifications it will have for lives 🙅‍♂️. I am sure that like the emoji haters, we all will be giving a solid thumbs up 👍 for both in the very near future!

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