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Emoji Kitchen

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Tornado Octopus is terrifying https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%99+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B... Tornado Cherry makes a smoothie! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%8D%92+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

Spider makes truly terrifying combos, like Penguin-spider: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%A7+%F0%9F%95%B7%EF%B...

Won't be able to sleep now.

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#152

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.

It's possible in Slack. Every Slack workspace has its set of own emoji. Some of them are unique, some are almost universal.

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#153

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?

Well there is the "love hotel" https://emojipedia.org/love-hotel/

But otherwise I agree.

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#154

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?

Well there is the "love hotel" https://emojipedia.org/love-hotel/ But otherwise I agree.

Emoji inherited that from the Japanese though, from eons past. Something like that would never get in today.

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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.

It is nothing short of a disgrace that we can't even personalize the fonts in whatsapp and similar clients.

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#156

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?

Well, there’s always U+0130B8.

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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.

Disappointment?! It's amazing!

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#159

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?

and yet it's extremely commonplace to represent sex or drugs using existing emojies
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