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OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
The best emoji for the way we communicate today would be to revert the water pistol back to a real gun.
People using smiling and laughing emoji were not literally smiling and laughing no more than the people writing LOL.
>We’re handing over raw .OBJ files to the community so they can use them to build immersive VR worlds, indie apps or weird memes.
Where?
>In the early days, we were literal People using smiling and laughing emoji were not literally smiling and laughing no more than the people writing LOL. >We’re handing over raw .OBJ files to the community so they can use them to build immersive VR worlds, indie apps or weird memes. Where?
oh, are they going to adjust the eggplant emoji to match modern usage? And perhaps the peach emoji as well?
This article https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/android-17-emoji-redesign/ has a larger (2d image) comparison grid with several dozen examples and an A/B slider vs the old versions. Overall the new design looks like a fairly tasteful compromise between Google's previous flat-shaded vector emoji and the hybrid 2d+3d Apple emoji, with the benefits (easier to rerender with higher-resolution, animations, tweaked lighting, etc.) that you'd get from a fully-3D pipeline. So I like the new set of emoji, just not this particular blog.google.com article.
>In the early days, we were literal People using smiling and laughing emoji were not literally smiling and laughing no more than the people writing LOL. >We’re handing over raw .OBJ files to the community so they can use them to build immersive VR worlds, indie apps or weird memes. Where?
No, the point was that we were literal when choosing which emoji to use.
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But there's no emoji for things you do need, like pouting face (you're forced to use enraged face which is too strong).
This article seems fairly uninformative since, as others have pointed out, there's no visualization or comparison of the full emoji set and no link to see it. They just show a few example images and have some (AI-enhanced?) prose that doesn't actually say very much. This article https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/android-17-emoji-redesign/ has a larger (2d image) comparison grid with several dozen examples and an A/B…
What's the overlap of people excited about new emoji and also read blog.google? OTOH, I guess they didn't ask to be posted to HN. :shrug:
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No, the point was that we were literal when choosing which emoji to use.
That's not what the article is saying from my reading of it. It thinks "rolling on the floor laughing" is a new exaggerated phenomenon despite ROFL being used the same way for decades.
Not sure why ROFL is relevant, a typical emoji user is likely unfamiliar with internet slang.