Greg Welch, Unicode Consortium Vice President: Well, you have to design an icon that ... a separate image and not general enough to be confused with other things that are not that emoji.

They were referred to as “emotion icons.” The emoji, on the other hand, was born in the nineties, the child of a Japanese comms firm (obvs). The name stems from the Japanese e meaning ...

I'm caking my FAVE SOCIAL ICONS! I've ALWAYS wanted to create an emoji version of myself, so that's why I've caked up two adorable chocolate YouTube and Instagram icons and a chocolate emoji cake, ...