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It’s quite upsetting to know we had to opportunity to get a Frowning Pile of Poo emoji and it was rejected! The current poo emoji is too happy!
Indeed, anyone with an infant knows bowel movements run the entire emotional gamut. Everything from the sad face to the party hat, from the exploding head to the dollar sign eyes.
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Definitely click on the "Document" links for each emoji. I spent about a half hour reading through them and found them incredibly fascinating. A lot advocate for why something is important (for example, it's easy to laugh at a PMS emoji, but it's hard to disagree with "Currently, although menstruation is a core part of being a woman, it is felt to impose significant limitations on women when influenced by negative so…
I suspect their marketing team was brooding on something.
I feel like the entire emoji block should be made part of the supplementary/private use or similar. Leave what gets implemented up to Microsoft/ Apple/ Google to agree on. It's fallen completely out of scope of unicode's purpose of documenting used symbols and into a sort of editorialized control of what can cannot be said.
I still don't understand how so many people are in favor of this whole emoji system being a part of unicode. Most people I interact with seem to end up using application specific emojis anyway. Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?
I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scripts but then a few icons representing non verbal communication is suddenly "too much". Sure a system might not support everything but the same is true for the regular text scripts. And then it means I can include emojis in my she'll script, slack messages, copy paste around, and it just works.
I love it!
There's no donkey or dumbass emoji :(
I have made a conscious commitment to stop all use of emojis. They seem innocent enough, but ultimately they're debasing language and limiting the range of free expression. For example, in 2018, most major platforms changed their revolver emojis to water gun icons, in an apparent attempt to "do something" about gun violence. This would be a laughable proposition if it didn't border on dystopian. We should not allow t…
What would be the emoji equivalent of old man shaking fist at cloud?
I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good. A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize " tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Somet…
The problem with normalising things is that it tends to become an expectation. An environment where people are open about their personal well being is challenging for someone who needs privacy. The one who takes unexplained time off risks appearing insincere. I feel it's more inclusive to insist on not discussing personal situations in public. If you need time off, just take time off. Every person is different and wi…
I'm for professionals saying whatever they feel they need to say so that they can be understood and perceived in the way they want to be perceived and understood. If not talking about something causes stress, talking about it could help. If talking about it causes stress, don't talk about it.
I work with people around the globe so knowing my sleep schedule helps the people who work with me. For example, I don't like reviewing UX, visual design, or anything involving RxJS when I'm tired. I know this, they know this, so I review things when I'm rested. Similarly I want to know what the people around me need me to know.
Let professionals decide. "Culturally" the scales shouldn't be tilted too far in either direction.
Also talking about different types of people.. Moving from an expectation of an instant response to the expectation of a 24-ish-hour response does wonders for communication. Let people think and maybe sleep on it. Keeps the in the moment thinkers from steamrolling the nap and shower thinkers. Does wonders.
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I still don't understand how so many people are in favor of this whole emoji system being a part of unicode. Most people I interact with seem to end up using application specific emojis anyway. Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?
I got one love emojis and think it was one of the best decisions to include them in Unicode. I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scripts but then a few icons representing non verbal communication is suddenly "too much". Sure a system might not support everything but the same is true for the regular text scripts. And then it means I can include emojis in my she'll script, slack messages, cop…
But we already had application specific emoticons. They worked well, they work so well, that even with emojis in Unicode we still use application specific ones instead.
Also, the default ones seem to always be ugly.
Also also, the "weird human scripts" generally have a fairly long history of use.
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I still don't understand how so many people are in favor of this whole emoji system being a part of unicode. Most people I interact with seem to end up using application specific emojis anyway. Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?
I got one love emojis and think it was one of the best decisions to include them in Unicode. I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scripts but then a few icons representing non verbal communication is suddenly "too much". Sure a system might not support everything but the same is true for the regular text scripts. And then it means I can include emojis in my she'll script, slack messages, cop…