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The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all - it's used to gloat about human suffering
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all emoji; indeed, there is something essentially cruel about this particular emoji. Many times, people use the tears of joy emoji to gloat about something that should be seen as "horrific".
Image Description | Tears of joy emoji, and montage representing Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson
Real life emoji sexting: would you post someone an aubergine?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, sexting
Summary | If you want to send someone a hidden sexual message, you can now mail an eggplant and add a message on it. The eggplant emoji has become popular because it's been used as a representation of a penis. Eggplantmail.com is the new company that allows people to mail customized eggplants for £6.99. The creator of the website became successful very quickly. Most of the orders came from the US.
Image Description | Photograph of an eggplant
Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Google proposed new emojis representing gender diversity. The new set of emojis includes for instance female engineers, chemists, plumbers, and farmers. Millions of people around the world use emojis, so it is important to represent people accurately.
Image Description | Images of the new set of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Changing the gun emoji isn't political correctness gone mad. It's smart
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Opinion piece. Apple made the right decision when it replaced the gun emoji into a water gun emoji. The gun debate in the US is not a joke. Apple didn't say why they decided to change the emoji; it would be inappropriate to take a public stance about the issue. However, it seems that someone thought it would be a good idea to get rid of the gun emoji, especially after several shootings that took place in the US.
Image Description | N/A
Am I using this emoji right, or did I accidentally just sext someone?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 17.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, sexting
Summary | The Daily Mail released a list of emojis with double meanings. Some seemingly innocent emojis might in fact have another X-rated meaning. For instance, the mailbox emoji can mean "sex". You can use any emoji to talk about sex, but some are being used more than others. For example, the eggplant emoji is now widely accepted as a way to represent a penis. Most emojis can have a double meaning; they can be interpreted at face value or mean something completely different.
Image Description | Photograph of a man scratching his head, Twitter video of a man explaing the hidden meanings of emojis, and screenshots of tweets.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), Twitter
16 wonderful words we need emojis for - from Kummerspeck to ya'arburnee
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People from Catalonia in Spain launched a campaign to add an emoji representing "porrón". Among potential new candidates from other cultures and languages: Kummerspeck, Litost, L'esprit de l'escalier, Halatnost, Ilunga, etc.
Image Description | N/A
The Emoji Bible has arrived ... and (face with halo emoji) has yet to declare it (OK hand sign emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 30.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | The Bible has been translated into emoji. It includes 3,300 pages and is intended for millennials.
Image Description | Screenshots of tweets from @BibleEmoji
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Water pistol emoji replaces revolver as Apple enters gun violence debate
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple decided to replace the gun emoji with a water gun emoji after several shootings that took place in the US. People commented on the change and said that changing the emoji was not going to resolve the gun violence problem.
Image Description | Water gun emoji and gun emoji, and screenshots of tweets.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
New emojis to include breastfeeding, a hijab and the lotus position
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 56 new emojis will be released (e.g. bearded man, sandwich, face vomiting, woman wearing a hijab). However, there is still a lack of redhead emojis.
Image Description | Different versions of the hijab emoji, and screenshots of tweets about the hijab emoji and the lack of ginger emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
We all love to (face with tears of joy emoji) and the French are (broken heart emoji): what we learned about emojis at SXSW
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | SwiftKey found that 70% of emojis are used to express a positive feeling; this might be because we want to present a positive image of ourselves to other people. Linguist Gretchen McCulloch said that emojis are the “fourth quadrant” of communication -writing has now an informal part. The author of the article then goes on to present facts and numbers about emojis that were presented at SXSW.
Image Description | Photograph of a screen with 4 rows of emojis,
Image Tags | emojis
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