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Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by Joeri »

amelius wrote: post #103
kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

Msn messenger had custom emoticons in 2003. Me and my friends had our own little vernacular of custom emojis. And then microsoft forced everyone onto skype. I keep being amazed how chat hasn’t really improved in decades, only churned.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by amelius »

klntsky wrote: post #110
amelius wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these stickers inline? It's not a language if you can't make a sentence.

No, they are not. But almost no one uses emoji to compose sentences anyway.

I've noticed that emoji and stickers are absolutely not used in the same way.

People often combine multiple emoji to express certain things that can't be expressed with a single emoji (and too difficult to find/create a sticker for).

Stickers are also much less subtle and more in your face, and therefore not appreciated in the same way.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by celticninja »

klntsky wrote: post #110
amelius wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these stickers inline? It's not a language if you can't make a sentence.

No, they are not. But almost no one uses emoji to compose sentences anyway.

Not full sentences perhaps but there is a reason the Egyptians used hieroglyphics, and a reason we say a picture is worth a thousand words, so adding some to a text message is very common

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by tiborsaas »

klntsky wrote: post #110
amelius wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are these stickers inline? It's not a language if you can't make a sentence.

No, they are not. But almost no one uses emoji to compose sentences anyway.

I had to make my girlfriend stop doing that because I couldn't decipher what she was saying, it was like +30% extra information I thought was decoration :D

Also, on Tinder bios emoji soup is a thing.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by Nition »

amelius wrote: post #103
kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise. If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

As a classic example of a naturally evolved emoticon language, on the SomethingAwful forums anyone could (and still can) buy an emoticon for $30. Here they all are: https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilie...

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by saaaaaam »

bze12 wrote: post #68

Shameless plug: if you like fun emoji-related projects, I built EmojiSwap - the global, P2P emoji exchange. It's a trading market for emojis. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emojiswap-trade-chat-win/id160...

This is really interesting to me because of a little proof of concept I made. Is there a way I can contact you?

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by PebblesRox »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #24

Am confused - is this new? I mean, Emoji Kitchen has been around for almost a year now -- but I can't remember if this site had all the combos before? It used to be just two at a time or something? Wish there was a proper About -- is it that all the combos are now revealed?

The interface is better than I remember - previously there were little vertical menus for picking the emojis, so only a few were visible at a time.

Edit: I'm remembering a different site with a similar concept: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/

And as someone else commented, there's also https://emojikitchen.dev/

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by 12ian34 »

kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

I'm not a big user of emoji outside of Slack reactions, but I do enjoy that many emoji have become euphemistic of things like sex, drugs and tragedy, e.g. the syringe, the aubergine, the herb leaf etc.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by comboy »

jitkoff wrote: post #5
phailhaus wrote: post #4

This is incredible, how did you pull this off? I love what you did with the favicon and the page title too!

The combinations are the work of a very talented team. (See https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc... ) This viewer is just a small hack to let you look through what already exists : ) Source: https://github.com/alcor/emoji-supply/tree/main/docs/kitchen

Such a disappointment. Great work though.

Re: Emoji Kitchen

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Post by andrepd »

kieckerjan wrote: post #84

Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?

Oh but there is

>Sex

Aubergine and peach, various "horny" faces

>Drugs

The leaf, the clouded face, the syringe

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