![]() ![]() ![]() It used to be possible to express the emotion of being content that is not exaggerated by showing teeth or blushing, and "weary face" could be used to humorously express exhaustion while it now seems to stand for "my house burned down" (I especially miss "weary cat face" ). I liked the old Android emoji much more and was disappointed that they lost the race for becoming the standard. It got pretty clear that many Android users associated the Emojis directly with WhatsApp instead of recognizing them as a feature provided by the operating system, and that seems to have been caused mostly by WhatsApp copying the iOS Emoji library early on, when Android did not yet have Emojis or had different-looking ones. They were like "hey, how did you get those cute WhatsApp icons out of WhatsApp and into that other app?". I remember talking to confused Android users many years ago, when all this Emoji and WhatsApp craze started (I'm from Germany, where there are a lot of Android users and WhatsApp is king among messaging services due to its multiplatform capability, while iMessage isn't used nearly as much due to its inherent limitation to iOS) and people saw me using Emojis in other apps on iOS that were not WhatsApp. Am I right that they appear to have copied Apple's emoji library at some time in the past and reused those on all platforms (except iPhone, of course) instead of the native emoji symbols that those platforms also started to provide? Are they still doing that today? WhatsApp seems to be an interesting case with regard to Emoji history anyway. ![]()
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