Unicode: Emoji's - Humans Reverting to Hieroglyphic Language Due to Tech

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Sun Jul 17 19:45:51 PDT 2022


https://www.statista.com/chart/17275/number-of-emojis-from-1995-bis-2019/
https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/
https://www.statista.com/study/12327/mobile-communications-industry-statista-dossier/
https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museum-of-modern-arts-collection-c6060e141f61

In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow To 3,491

Just in time for today's World Emoji Day, new pictograms coming to
phones in 2023 have been announced. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz
details below, next year will likely see the release of 31 new emojis
including the pink heart, the hair pick and the Khanda, the symbol of
Sikh faith. The update would grow the number of emojis to nearly 3,500
next year. The Unicode consortium has recommended the emojis for
release, but a final decision is still outstanding.

Infographic: In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow to 3,491 | Statista

You will find more infographics at Statista

While 2021 saw the release of 217 new emojis, that number was lowered
to just more than 100 in 2022 and now finally to the double digits for
next year. While emojis that allow users to pick different skin colors
or genders drive up the size of releases as they are counted
individually, the number of non-customizable emojis has also decreased
with each release. 2023 will also see the addition of the moose head,
the donkey, the goose, the handheld fan, the jelly fish and the
maracas, among others, with the high-five hands - both left and
right-facing - being the only customizable emoji in the new batch. The
pink heart is reportedly the most anticipated of the release as social
media users have griped for some time about the availability of the
simple heart icon in white, orange and even brown, but not pink.

What emojis appear on people’s phones and on their social media
platforms is not arbitrary but has been coordinated by the Unicode
Consortium since 1995, when the first 76 pictograms were adapted by
the U.S. nonprofit. The Consortium has been overseeing the character
inventory of electronic text processing since 1991 and sets a standard
for symbols, characters in different scripts and – last but not least
– emojis, which are encoded uniformly across different platforms even
though illustration styles may vary between providers.

Even though the first Unicode listings predate them, a 1999 set of 176
simple pictograms invented by interface designer Shigetaka Kurita for
a Japanese phone operator is considered to be the precursor of
modern-day emojis. The concept gained popularity in Japan and by 2010,
Unicode rolled out a massive release of more than 1,000 emojis to get
with the burgeoning trend - the rest is history.

Different skin colors have been available for emojis since 2015. 2014
saw the release of the anti-bullying emoji "eye in speech bubble" in
cooperation with The Ad Council, which produces public service
announcements in the United States. Regional flags came to the service
in 2017. Same-sex couples and same-sex families have been available
since the first major emoji-release in 2010. The 2021 release also
included the rollout of non-binary options and interracial couples.


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