Are emojis universal? Do you know what they're used for? 🤡, 🤠 either 💀?
Emojis are a true universal language… or not. Do you know what it means if you send a 🤡, 🤠 either 💀? Why the poop (💩Is he smiling?
Just as language changes and some words become old-fashioned, are readapted or invented over time… the same happens to emojis. You, millennial, did you think you were at the forefront of linguistics by communicating in the “family” chat with 🥰 and 🤣?
Today, under the guise of International Emoji Day, we reveal the most 🔥 in the emoji cat world so you can continue feeling like an eternal teenager.
Emojis are the popular language that 'Esperanto' never became
From a sincere expression with joy 😂, to a metaphor spicy (🍆We've all sent an emoji at some point. We're all sinners.
And, ever since we saw emojis born - and You were already in this world, I remind you - they've grown enough to become a language own. Experts support it, even if only as a transmission tool. feelings which allows us to use the 🍑 or the ✊ and the 💦 without feeling childish or objectionable.
Today, 20% of tweets include an emoji; there are more than 3,000, and they have become an accepted tool. to communicate in the workplace or even as valid evidence in a trial (true story).
The flip side? - that it evolves. Like all languages. And you may already be out.
Emojis are a language, but... is it no longer yours? 😔
The new generations or zoomers (those born between the mid-90s and the early 2010s... those who are now between teenagers and twenty-somethings, that is) are redefining the codes of emojis. Let's take as an example the most popular emoji of our time: 😂
Today, it's one of the most popular emojis Internet divisives, partly because young people use it as a 'joke' only to respond to mothers and/or grandparents.
They mock their elders, Sacrebleau.
- When they want to laugh their heads off they use 💀 instead of 🤣
- When they mock a seemingly serious phrase or thought (because they think that person is making a fool of themselves or looking ridiculous), they end with a 🤡
- When they are astonished they write 👁️👄👁️
- When they want to put on a brave face but are actually dying inside, they send 🤠
- And the thing adds up and go on. .
Newer generations are taking the literal meaning of emojis and rolling a metaphorical blunt with them.
From Siwon, we recommend two strategies:
- Invent new emojis or
- Having your own
1. INVENTING EMOJIS: HOW 👏🏻 IT IS CREATED 👏🏻 A 👏🏻 EMOJI 👏🏻?
Unicode is the politburo of emojis. New batches of emojis free of double and triple meanings are created and released there every so often.
Although it may seem like a joke, emojis have a dense and complicated regulation to be created. Worse than collecting your furlough payment or the paperwork to apply for a self-employed grant.
In Emoji Request, There's a kind of popular poll where people vote for their next favorite emoji; that is, the one they want Unicode to approve. There's everything: from the dub to the facepalm (this one isn't included). 🤦♂️, another) passing through a black diamond or a guy with a balaclava.
2. Inventing your own language: Ande yo 🔥. .
The key, remember, is, above all, non-literality. The more layers and layers of irony and bad temper, which turn the meaning of each emoji into an indecipherable enigma for anyone outside your inner circle, the better.
Get yourself a close-knit group first, of course.
And if you're already fed up with all the fuss and stress of keeping up... well, just accept that you're in that happy no-man's-land. You're not like your aunt who still shares fPhotos with 'Blessings', fake news and flowers on WhatsApp… But you also don't recognize those TikTokers who occasionally appear on TV and have more followers than Malta has inhabitants.
You stayed in the 🙈 and with the 💃. And you know perfectly well what to do when you see a 🔥 or a 💦 on your phone (responding to the call to put out fires, that is).
Are 👌 just as you are.
BONUS TRACK: THE RIDDLE
And as a closing and commercial promo, let's see if you can guess what we mean.
