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New emojis in 2023-2024

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Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by realusername »

kemayo wrote: post #65
vasco wrote: post #39

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Skin color emojis are the weirdest thing. I always find it slightly odd if someone changed them from the default yellow. Why would one care?

Speaking as a person with light-colored skin, the default-yellow emoji still basically look like me. Or, a version of me that's on the Simpsons, at least. I imagine that if I had dark skin, I'd feel a bit alienated by this experience. I'd be using these symbols that were supposed to represent me / my-reactions, but which very much didn't look like me. There'd be this pervasive sense that I was not included, not impor…

That could just be a system wide setting to change all the emojis to appear how you want it to.

There's no need to send the colour to fix this issue.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by isoprophlex »

mecsred wrote: post #135
isoprophlex wrote: post #7

I'd be delighted if the deep fried version of "crying laughing emoji" were to become a thing: "open eye crying laughing emoji" To me it signifies something that holds the middle between glee, hysterical laughter and psychotic rage. Unicode really misses a codepoint with this specific energy, in my opinion. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/open-eye-crying-laughing-emoj...

It should become a modifier so you can add psychotic energy to any emoji. I support adding as much complexity as possible until emoji transcends languages to become the ultimate communication medium or collapses under the weight.

Soon we will have machine to machine communication between large language models, where they communicate their internal state using high dimensional vector streams of emoji modifiers

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by johannes1234321 »

olliecornelia wrote: post #134
johannes1234321 wrote: post #32

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> I wonder if they're ever going to decide that enough emoji is enough, Really hard to do by this time. Since they allowed so many it's harder to say no. They have a burrito, but why no kebap, yet? They have person's playing basketball or golfing, but no person playing football (any variant) putting a stop to it gives an arbitrary set and restricts representing develoment in society (they have kick scooters which are…

https://emojipedia.org/stuffed-flatbread/

Oh, missed that addition! Thanks! And it didn't come up in a name search.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by squeek502 »

graypegg wrote: post #75

I feel for the artists whose job it is to draw and organize nearly 4000 little vector images, most of which will barely ever be used to communicate anything. I'm going to imagine that it's functionally impossible to make a font with full emoji support now unless you're a massive corporation. (Not that it's an issue really, but there's only so far you can push the list of required code points right? You can leave off…

How about with a maximum size of 10x10 pixels?

https://emoji.serenityos.net/

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by pxc »

tekla wrote: post #145
pxc wrote: post #118

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Plus Unicode already includes a ton of emoji that Islamic fundamentalists doubtless consider unacceptable. Liberal Muslims can presumably put up with other people using a God emoji just like they can put up with other people using a devil emoji.

Wait doesn't that mean that unicode is un-inclusive?

Adults already know what the paradox of tolerance is. Idk what you think you're demonstrating here.

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by tambeb »

cubefox wrote: post #101
graypegg wrote: post #75

I feel for the artists whose job it is to draw and organize nearly 4000 little vector images, most of which will barely ever be used to communicate anything. I'm going to imagine that it's functionally impossible to make a font with full emoji support now unless you're a massive corporation. (Not that it's an issue really, but there's only so far you can push the list of required code points right? You can leave off…

For their phone keyboard "Gboard", Google made around 30.000(!) emoji combinations available as stickers. Here is an overview: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/ These are all handcrafted, and some are quite original, e.g. when you combine one with itself. An entire team of artists must have worked on this for quite some time.

So far I've found 88 combos involving the poop emoji.

Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCNxKjzi61rCJUsU8

Re: New emojis in 2023-2024

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Post by inhumantsar »

mostlylurks wrote: post #157
inhumantsar wrote: post #133

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I genuinely hope that emojis keep being added. A lot of meaning can be packed into a single emoji which (usually) transcends language and culture. It's been fascinating to see emoji work their way into everyday usage, even in professional settings. I would love to see the day where emoji becomes a viable form of cross-cultural shorthand.

> I would love to see the day where emoji becomes a viable form of cross-cultural shorthand. I have my doubts regarding this. We're already seeing a situation where different groups within a single culture, the young and the old, use many common emoji in ways that differ dramatically (at least in the west), sometimes even with opposing meanings. If the meanings of emoji aren't stable even within a single culture, how…

The same way we manage words with multiple meanings or different words which sound the same: context and history
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