We send 10 billion of them every day. Where do they come from? Zachary Crockett hearts this topic.
SOURCES:
Jennifer 8. Lee, co-founder of Emojination.
RESOURCES:
"Apple Removes The Gun Emoji, Replaces It With A Squirt Gun," by Carl Franzen (Popular Science, 2021).
"Ford’s secret fight for a pickup truck emoji," by Mark Dent (The Hustle, 2019).
"The WIRED Guide to Emoji," by Arielle Pardes (WIRED, 2018).
"How the iPhone won over Japan and gave the world emoji," by Sam Byford (The Verge, 2017).
"About Emoji," (Unicode Consortium).