I have my own little-known human story. I was missing a knight emoji for some personal project and decided to make a request to the unicode consortium. The problem is I can't draw. I asked if someone could make one knight emoji for free on r/characterdrawing . Someone gracefully accepted to make one and our submission is now 'Under Consideration'.<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/characterdrawing/comments/mw0wy9/rf_a_knight_emoji_for_uwooden_train1033/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/characterdrawing/comments/mw0wy9/rf...</a>
I never used emojis in my private life until I started working as a software developer. I end up using them all day, everyday on Slack at work and now they have bled into my vocabulary everywhere.
The Chinese-American emoji are not loved by all users with a Chinese background.<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/the-westernization-of-emoji/527616/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/the-w...</a><p>Something like a gaiwan, a rice cooker or a jar of lao gan ma would be more iconic?<p>I still like emoji, but I feel there is a heavy Western bias seeping into them. I am curious it the vendors will allow the Afghanistan flag to be changed if the Taliban stays in power. Seems less controversial on a global perspective than a trans flag.
The podcast this story is from has been pretty interesting if you're interested in the social side of technology.<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ndpbv" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ndpbv</a><p>As much as I miss people using old-school smilies, emoji really have enriched things like Slack a lot for me. However I think in Slack it's the ability to add your own, every company seems to have it's own vocabulary of custom emojis that form part of the culture.
You may not think much about the emoji you use to text every day but there are compelling human stories behind them.<p>I just learn something new from this! I used emoji always but I don't know the story before. Most of the emoji I used from <a href="https://www.uihut.com/icon/icon" rel="nofollow">https://www.uihut.com/icon/icon</a>.
I'm going to warm up to emoji a lot after I hear stories from Africa or India (or other area where credit cards are not abundant), embedding their own culture into the standard.<p>As it is, the commitee accepting emoji is heavily biased towards the West, by having web pages in English only, and by limiting access by requiring a credit card.
There is a different HN story that doesn't accept comments, why? I don't see any there and can't write there. It is <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231153" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231153</a>