What New Emoji from 14.0 Are We Excited About?

At Emoji Foundation we are excited about the bubble emoji, because it is long overdue and iridescent. And speaking of things that are shiny, there is also a mirror ball.

We foresee the low battery and eyes brimming with tears being crowd pleasers and personal daily use Emoji. As they both are useful for expressing everyday feelings. Who hasn’t felt like they had low batteries and and needed a recharge? Similarly, I picture the eyes brimming with tears as a popular Tiktok video response in the days to come.

The New 14.0 Emoji Set

Unicode has selected March 5 as the release date for Unicode 12.0. This is when the final emoji list for 2019 will be published (Emoji 12.0 is currently still being decided upon), alongside of course, other Unicode characters being added this year.

In The News

Children Are Using Emoji for Digital-Age Language Learning

I wanted to find out not only whether kids were texting emoji but which emoji, and why? How do they organize emoji into sequences and ideas, and how do these early ramblings shift as kids learn to read?

wired.com

Poop Emoji Reborn As Soft Serve Ice Cream

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 How We Apologize Now

Zara Rahim, who handled publicity for Vogue before joining The Wing, a women’s co-working space, as its communications director, said that the efficacy of these statements lies not only in their speed but also their appearance. “I can just write this quick note on my Notes app, because it looks like I did it on my phone, have my publicist take a quick glance at it, if I’m smart,” she said, “and then post it directly on my Instagram.”

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EMOJI CONFERENCE

May of this year will usher in Emoji 2019: 2nd​ International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media. Co-located with The Web Conference 2019 (formerly WWW)

Overall 2019 is going to give us some of the new emoji we have been waiting for. We will continue to learn and expand our understanding of these little symbols.

Emoji 2019 aims to stimulate research on understanding social, cultural, communicative, and linguistic roles of emoji and developing novel approaches to analyze, interpret and understand emoji and their usage in social media applications. It provides a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry in the areas of social network analysis and mining, natural language processing, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, and computational social sciences to discuss high-quality research and emerging applications, to exchange ideas and experience, and to identify new opportunities for collaboration.

We hope to see you there!

Today we will decode the mystery of Snapchat’s Emoji Status!

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Snapchat,  the company that’s logo looks remarkably similar to the Ghost Emoji, uses these “friend emojis,” to help you keep track of your relationships . They are pre-set for every user, but also they are customizable. However, it’s not always easy to tell what the emoji mean.

Here is the Emoji Foundation guide to the meanings behind every Snapchat emoji.

The gold heart is for best friends.

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Snapchat says a gold heart next to someone’s name means you send the most snaps to this Snapchatter, and they send the most snaps to you, too.

The red heart Emoji means you have been each other’s No. 1 best friend for over two weeks.

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Pink hearts Emoji means you have been each other’s No. 1 best friend for over two months.

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A grimace Emoji means you share a best friend.

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Your best friend is also this Snapchatter’s best friend.

A smiley face Emoji means this person is one of your best friends.

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This isn’t your No. 1 best friend, but this is a Snapchatter you send a lot of snaps to.

The sunglasses Emoji means you share a close friend with this person. Why the glasses?

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Smirking face Emoji means you’re their best friend, but they aren’t your best friend. Burn!

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The Flame Emoji means you’re on a Snapstreak.

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Snapstreaks are a score  that tracks how many consecutive days you’ve snapped back and forth with a friend on Snapchat.

The hourglass Emoji will appear to warn you that your Snapstreak will end soon. Keep Snapping- OR ELSE!

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The cake Emoji means it’s your friend’s birthday.

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The birthday cake will appear next to your friend’s name on the date they entered as their birthday on Snapchat.

The baby Emoji used to appear when you had first become Snapchat friends with someone.

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Now the mystery of Snapchat Emoji is a mystery no more! #themoreyouknow

Ever stay awake at night wondering which Emoji encapsulates your Meyers-Briggs personality type?

Yeah, me too.

For the unexperienced, the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is a series of questions that, when answered, categorize your personality based on whether you are:

• Introverted OR extroverted
• Sensing OR intuitive
• Thinking OR feeling
• Perceiving OR judging

The results are, for many, disturbingly accurate. If you haven’t taken the test, do it here.

But the question remains… what to reply when your friend asks, over text, why you sent her 5000 pics of potential hair colors for her approval, rather than just getting the one you want? Well, here you go!

INTJ =  Bar Chart Emoji

• Organized
• Idealist
• Overly analytical
• Judgmental

INTP= Light Bulb Emoji

• Inventive
• Creative
• Insensitive
• Absentminded

ENTJ= Crown Emoji

• Motivating
• Charismatic
• Stubborn
• Arrogant

ENTP= Speaking Head Emoji

• Curious
• Creative
• Argumentative
• Insensitive

INFJ= Raised Fist Emoji

• Idealist
• Sensitive
• Private
• Cause-driven

INFP= Crying Cat Face Emoji

• Idealistic
• Passionate
• Impractical
• Tendency to take things personally

ENFJ= Ear Emoji

• Helpful
• Eager to please
• Overly sensitive
• Self doubting

ENFP= Unicorn Face Emoji

• Creative
• Independent
• Unfocused
• Easily stressed

ISTJ= Balance Scale Emoji

• By the book
• Loyal
• Insensitive
• Judgmental

ISFJ= Octopus Emoji

• Supportive
• Reliable
• Shy
• Tendency to take on too much

ESTJ= File Folder Emoji

• Dedicated
• Organized
• Inflexible
• Judgemental

ESFJ= Selfie Emoji

• Dutiful
• Popular
• Needy
• Overly concerned about social status

ISTP:= Woman Scientist Emoji

• Creative
• Prioritizing
• Risk-taking
• Easily bored

ISFP= Person Lifting Weights Emoji

• Flexible
• Curious
• Overly competitive
• Easily stressed

ESTP= Shark Emoji

• Energetic
• Bold
• Impatient
• Risk prone

ESFP= Woman Dancing Emoji

• Spontaneous
• Enthusiastic
• Easily bored
• Poor planners

Now that you know how to explain your neurosis in emoji form, why not check out how your type effects your vacation, or your idea of eternal damnation? Have fun!

I was out to dinner last night with a group of friends, with a large spectrum of sexual orientations: straight, gay, lesbian, and flexible. We got to talking about how it was often hard for women, trans people, or bisexuals in a relationship to be taken seriously, or to even be seen as “gay” by others. More often than not, most bars and clubs for the queer community cater to gay men with the off ladies night. Moreover, unless women look and or dress a certain way (like Ellen) they are often not considered “Gay Enough.” They become invisible and overlooked and even denied their relationship status by many people. How does this relate to Emoji?

Recently I decided it was time to make the Emoji Dictionary a fully fledged resource. I went the same route as Fred Benenson did with Emoji Dick and used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk tool for micro jobs. Basically hundreds of anonymous people spent a few days defining all the 846 Emoji featured on the Emoji Dictionary.

When I started poking around the site and the over 4000 definitions I had commissioned by an international workforce, something caught my eye.  I looked at the definition for the two girls holding hands Emoji, there was no mention of them being gay or lesbian. Words like, “creepy girls, Girl Friends, two girls, women, and sisters” were used. The example sentences followed a similar tone: “Friendly girls hold hands to show affection.” and “Those girls holding hands are creeping me out.” So people were either seeing the Emoji as a symbol of sisterly love or it made them uncomfortable.