Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?
Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise.
If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.
That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places).
Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.
This was so important for (american) vendors and the (more or less american) committee that they even retroactively changed the standard from "pistol" to "water pistol", in the light of (american) gun violence.
Msn messenger had custom emoticons in 2003. Me and my friends had our own little vernacular of custom emojis. And then microsoft forced everyone onto skype. I keep being amazed how chat hasn’t really improved in decades, only churned.
On Telegram, one can make one’s own sticker packs by simply uploading a bunch of images. I see a lot of sticker packs on the theme of “my fursona expressing various emotions”, and it is pretty common to see one person have a new idea for an emotion or interaction, which is rapidly copied into other people’s sets when they have the resources available to create or commission a new drawing.
Furries being furries, a lot of these are pretty explicit, and pretty inventive in their explicitness.
Yup! In fact, getting more stickers has been on my list for a while now.
They're used for everything, but they both:
* Capture an emotion with more granularity than available emojis
* Capture an intended physical action whether sfw or nsfw (owo)
* Invoke everything that comes with seeing your character "come to life" as well as assisting you in embodying that character (like a fursuit does)
Are glyphs going from left to right the general rule now? It's not a language otherwise? Pretty sure there are a tonne of pre-Western languages that buck this trend.
People tend to use stickers in amongst regular text in a way that's more "I could write out how I feel/what I'm going to do to you/what you're going to do to me, but instead I will _show_ you".
Take the regular language in between stickers as the grammar/conjunctions as conjunctions are to regular language.
I've noticed that emoji and stickers are absolutely not used in the same way.
People often combine multiple emoji to express certain things that can't be expressed with a single emoji (and too difficult to find/create a sticker for).
Stickers are also much less subtle and more in your face, and therefore not appreciated in the same way.
although i’ve noticed mostly human emojis can be used consciously. the others (tree, objects, etc) are suggested when you type a word but almost never selected to replace words in a sentence. So i don’t know who really uses them.
Not full sentences perhaps but there is a reason the Egyptians used hieroglyphics, and a reason we say a picture is worth a thousand words, so adding some to a text message is very common
I had to make my girlfriend stop doing that because I couldn't decipher what she was saying, it was like +30% extra information I thought was decoration :D
They are glyphes. You don't expect the roman letters to individually represent all concepts.
In the same way, emoji are glyphes and just symbols. We will attach meaning to each symbol, combinations of symbols and context, and will express whatever we want with it.
Just like people say "this is the shit", and "this is shit", and it says litterally the opposite of each other.
E.G: we already use the eggplant to talk about sex.
The gun emoji was converted to a squirt gun en masse because #oh-mai-gawd-guns-evil. Yet a pretty decent chunk of our entertainment in shows, movies, and games include (gasp!) guns that resemble over the top usage against other human beings, which is fine because it's fake and people are smart enough to draw the distinctions.
Emojis though? Nah, not possible. Too triggering.
I'll be sure to ask Google and Apple to ban the Peach emoji when I accidentally bite into the pit and need tooth repair.
And if I might add: why do we need multiple colors for a heart or multiple hearts? One wasn't enough? Are we going to cover all the drinks know by mankind or one generic "alcoholic" drink was okay? What about flowers? Do we need to cover them all or a generic "flower" pictogram is enough?
I exclusively use the purple heart where my online handle has the word Purple in it. Then others use it too. It has aided expression, however marginally.
I guess an emoji could be proposed for grief, that is a tricky question in itself.
There is a system to go through to add new emojis, it does seem to be very hard work now.
What a weird comment - there's multiple drug emojis (syringe, pill, whisky, beer, cocktail, cigarette, sake), tragedies (gravestone, sad faces, sick faces, hospital, ambulance, bandage, casket, skull and crossbones). There's even a middle finger.
The sex ones are peach, eggplant, squirt, bed, volcano, pointing finger hand followed by ok hand, lips, and love hotel.
I'm not a big user of emoji outside of Slack reactions, but I do enjoy that many emoji have become euphemistic of things like sex, drugs and tragedy, e.g. the syringe, the aubergine, the herb leaf etc.
If i understand correctly, this is developed by Google and shipped with their keyboard. They aren't going to start suggesting custom lewd stickers to people.
As a furry, the answer is: telegram stickers. Oh boy is there a sticker for every conceivable sfw and nsfw feeling or action. For example (sfw): https://t.me/nowandlaters/789
Again, trying to eliminate grief by decree. And then we wonder why everyone is depressed. If negative things are so undesirable, why do we represent them in the arts?
Looking at the Emoji list (in general, not from the link above) I can see plenty of emojis displaying concern, sadness, grief and other "negative" emotions.
I've always thought U+01F97A FACE WITH PLEADING EYES does an okay job of representing loneliness. If you were to tint U+01F616 CONFOUNDED FACE green, it would be good for jealousy, perhaps.
You are thinking about particular renderings of emojis. The actual definition for U+01F97A FACE WITH PLEADING EYES does not represent loneliness at all and you can't expect that whatever shows up for whoever you're talking to does. But people do keep adding these expectations to emojis that are not encoded in unicode at all so while emojis do give the impression of being a standardized encoding we're really back to vendor-specific codepages.
The following makes it sound like these websites pirate the graphics, so that wouldn't work for a keyboard for the App Store.
>If you have an Android device I recommend downloading Gboard and giving it a whirl. If you don't have a phone running on Android … you could consider getting one lololol or trying it out on a number of unofficial websites (tsk tsk! I don't approve!!! :Face-with-Symbols-on-Mouth-emoji:)
Ok, I read her article but didn’t follow the links. The emoji kitchen is a google gBoard project, Jennifer works on the gBoard team and is part of the emoji kitchen team. All the other sites are just documenting (in fun ways) the work that the emoji kitchen team is doing. And apparently regular non-google people can submit combined emojis to the emoji kitchen to be added.
I guess it’s a question of who owns the copyright.
It’s definitely possible with ligatures. I’m not looking for a side project at the moment, but if you have free time that disappointment might be just a side project away for you. Edit: respecting/crediting others’ work as appropriate of course!
> To use it: You need an Android phone (sorry Tim Cook!!) 1. Download and install Gboard 2. Open it and set it as the default keyboard on your phone 3. In Gboard's settings check to make sure that Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled. This is what ensures that the feature is on :-) 4. Tap two emoji in your keyboard and it suggests a combination of those two emoji
Edit: Never mind, I figured out that inline mode means invoking the bot in any chat by typing @emojimixingbot and then typing two emojis. The mixed emoji then appears as a sticker that can be sent. The bot does not respond to emojis sent to it directly (in the chat with the bot).
Previous question (now irrelevant with my answer above):
What’s inline mode, and how exactly would one use this bot?
Neat. A bit tangental but I'm curious, where do you host it? Is there a gold standard for these bots, like everyone writes them in Node and hosts them on DO kind of trend?
Good question. Telegram's infrastructure and dev ecosystem is vaguely weird, much like its overall technical design.
Originally the bot framework was HTTP-based, in the literal sense that new message <-> new HTTP GET, and you'd have a webserver somewhere printing out a response to send back. (You can either use incoming webhooks or (yay latency+efficiency) periodically poll Telegram for messages since a given time).
Telegram later released the internal C++ shim/proxy that relayed MTProto (Telegram's protocol) to HTTP requests, so you can now colocate both processes on the one machine for better latency, although many implementations still use the old webhook method.
Later-later, Telegram also released a C++ library applications can use to abstract out the process of dealing with MTProto.
Nowadays, MTProto is well-documented enough that there are independent client implementations of the protocol (that support signing in as users and bots), which incidentally are slightly more flexible than the C++ library or bot shim (mostly because Telegram has specific needs and wasn't initially aiming for a general-purpose consumable at design time).
The record-scratch part is that the two leading independent clients are incidentally written in PHP. Yeah. I don't mind PHP myself, but it was definitely an "oh. okay" moment lol. Like I said, Telegram's infra is interesting.
So there's exceedingly-likely a Node helper library you can use (although you obviously don't fundamentally need one) to build bots in JS if you want; the next level after that would be coordinating with the C++ or PHP libraries, and the boss level :P would be connecting to MTProto directly (which isn't the end of the world, just... an "overloaded motor" number of moving parts to take on all at once for what's realistically likely a hobby-level curiosity).
On my raspberry since I've calculated that it'll be cheaper on it compared to DO, but at first yes, i used DO, templated docker container and this bot is also written based on started nodejs template bot
> Kirby 64 introduces Power Combos, the option to combine Kirby's copy abilities. Power Combos can be created by inhaling two enemies at once, by throwing one ability at another, or by spitting an enemy at another. The latter two methods create a colored star that can be collected to obtain the Power Combo. There are 28 possible combinations, which are stronger than normal copy abilities or have added effects. For instance, by combining the "Burn" and "Needle" abilities, Kirby can shoot fire arrows. Players can also mix two of the same abilities, which will increase their power.
Am confused - is this new? I mean, Emoji Kitchen has been around for almost a year now -- but I can't remember if this site had all the combos before? It used to be just two at a time or something?
Wish there was a proper About -- is it that all the combos are now revealed?
Yeah, there used to be an official emoji kitchen website long before it was integrated into Gboard, but they go rid of it after the Gboard integration :\
I've been looking for a site like this since, apparently there's a few others like: https://emojikitchen.dev/
While these are typed using emoji, they are sent as images, so they do not rely on fonts.
I would have tested it myself in Gboard, but it relies on the "suggestions" feature which requires internet access, which I will not accept for a keyboard app.
This is interesting, emojis have revolutionzed how we converse and communicate. But, we have taken inspiration from our ancestors who used to paint caves with symbols -- the first form of emojis we found.
Neither did trying to put my pen the the trash can. And combining the party emoji with itself didn't create a more excited party emoji. I imagine it's still a work in progress.
Tornado Cherry makes a smoothie! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%8D%92+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...