Originating on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990s, emoji have become increasingly
popular worldwide since their international inclusion in Apple's iPhone, which was followed by
similar adoption by Android and other mobile operating systems. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named an emoji the Word of the year.
1)
First
Used And Inventor:-
Emoji were
initially used by Japanese mobile operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank
Mobile (formerly Vodafone). These companies each
defined their own variants of emoji using proprietary standards. The first
emoji was created in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita. He was part of the team working
on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform.
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| Shigetaka Kurita |
Kurita took inspiration from weather forecasts that used symbols to show weather, Chinese characters and street signs, and from manga that used stock symbols to express emotions, such as lightbulbs signifying inspiration. The first set of 176 12×12 pixel emoji was created as part of i-mode's messaging features to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services.Kurita created the first 180 emoji based on the expressions that he observed people making and other things in the city.
2)
Reason Of
Popularity:-
The popularity
of emoji has caused pressure from vendors and international markets to add
additional designs into the Unicode standard to meet the demands of different
cultures. Unicode 7.0 added approximately 250 emoji, many from the Webdings and Wingdings fonts. Some
characters now defined as emoji are inherited from a variety of pre-Unicode
messenger systems not only used in Japan, including Yahoo and MSN Messenger.[16] Unicode
8.0 added another 41 emoji, including articles of sports equipment such as the
cricket bat, food items such as the taco, signs of the Zodiac, new facial expressions,
and symbols for places of worship.
3)
Oxford
Dictionaries Named:-
Oxford
noted that 2015 has seen a sizable increase in the use of the word "emoji"
and recognized its impact on popular culture; On Oxford's choice to make
the word of the year, Oxford Dictionaries president, Caspar Grathwohl expressed
that "traditional alphabet scripts have been struggling to meet the
rapid-fire, visually focused demands of 21st Century communication. It's not
surprising that a pictographic script like emoji has stepped in to fill those
gaps—it's flexible, immediate, and infuses tone beautifully." SwiftKey found
that "Face with Tears of Joy" was the most popular emoji across the
world. The American
Dialect Society declared
(eggplant) to be the "Most Notable Emoji" of 2015 in their Word of
the Year vote.
Some
emoji are specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing businessman, a
face wearing a face mask a white flower
used to denote "brilliant homework", or a group of emoji
representing popular foods: ramen noodles dango, onigiri Japanese curry, and sushi. Unicode Consortium founder Mark Davis compared the
use of emoji to a developing language, particularly mentioning the American use
of (eggplant) to represent a phallus. Some linguists have
classified emoji and emoticons as discourse markers.
4)
Top Listed Country Who Use
Emojis:-
In January 2017, in what is believed to be the first
large-scale study of emoji usage, researchers at the University of Michigan analysed
over 427 million messages input via the Kika Emoji Keyboard and announced that
the Face With Tears of Joy was the most popular emoji. The Heart and the Heart
eyes emoji stood second and third respectively.
The study also found that the
French used the emoji associated with love the most. People in countries with
high levels of individualism, like Australia, France and the Czech Republic,
used more happy emoji, while this was not so for people in Mexico, Colombia,
Chile and Argentina, where people used more negative emoji in comparison to
cultural hubs known for restraint and self-discipline, like Turkey, France and
Russia.
5)
Emoji Communication Problems:-
Research
has shown that emoji are often misunderstood. In some cases, this is related to
how the actual emoji design is interpreted by the viewer; in other cases, the
emoji that was sent was is not shown in the same way on the receiving side.
The
first issue relates to the cultural or contextual interpretation of the emoji.
When the author picks an emoji, they think about it in a certain way, but the
same character may not trigger the same thoughts in the mind of the receiver.
The
second problem, on the other hand, has to do with technology and branding. When
an author of a message picks an emoji from a list, it is normally encoded in a
non-graphical manner during the transmission, and if the author and the reader
do not use the same software or operating system for their devices, the
reader's device may visualize the same emoji in a different way. Small changes
to a character's look may completely alter its perceived meaning with the
receiver.
6)
Implementation:-
For Apple
The exact appearance of emoji is not prescribed but varies
between fonts, in the same way that normal typefaces can display letters
differently. For example, the Apple Color Emojitypeface is proprietary to
Apple, and can only be used on Apple devices (without additional hacking). Different computing
companies have developed their own fonts to display emoji, some of which have
been open-sourced to permit their
reuse. Both colour and monochrome emoji typefaces exist, as well as at least
one animated design.
For Android
Android devices support
emoji differently depending on the operating system version. Google added
native emoji support to Android in July 2013 with Android 4.3, and to the
Google Keyboard in November 2013 for devices running Android 4.4 and
later. Android 7.0 Nougat added Unicode 9 emoji, skin tone modifiers, and
a redesign of many existing emoji
Emoji
are also supported by the Google Hangouts application
(independent of the keyboard in use), in both Hangouts and SMS modes. Several third-party
messaging and keyboard applications (such as IQQI Keyboard) for Android devices.
provide plugins that allow the use of emoji. Some apps, e.g. WhatsApp,
come with Apple emojis for internal use. With Android 8 (Oreo), Google
added a compatibility library that, if included by app developers, makes the
latest Noto emojis available on any platform since Android 4.3.
Until
2016, mobile phone vendors HTC and LG deployed variants of NotoColorEmoji.ttf
with custom glyphs; Samsung still does. Some Japanese mobile carriers used to
equip branded Android devices with emoji glyphs that were closer to the
original ones, but apparently have stopped updating these circa 2015.
7)
In popular culture:-
1) The 2009 film Moon featured a robot named GERTY who communicates using a neutral-toned
synthesized voice together with a screen showing emoji representing the
corresponding emotional content.
2) In 2014, the Library
of Congress acquired an emoji version of Herman Melville's Moby
Dick created by Fred Benenson.
3) A musical called Emojiland premiered at Rockwell Table
& Stage in Los Angeles in May 2016, after selected songs were
presented at the same venue in 2015.
4) In October 2016, the Museum
of Modern Art acquired the original collection of emoji
distributed by NTT Docomo in 1999.
5) In March 2017, the first episode of the
fifth season of Samurai Jack featured alien
characters who communicate in emoji.
6) In April 2017, the Doctor Who episode "Smile" featured robots called Vardy that communicate via emoji (without any
accompanying speech output), and are sometimes referred to by the time
travelers as "Emojibots".
7) On July 28, 2017, Sony
Pictures Animation released The Emoji Movie, a 3D computer animated movie featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart, Christina
Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Anna Faris, T.
J. Miller, and other notable actors and comedians. The film was
critically panned.
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