Picture It: Who Made Your Favorite Emoji

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

From “face-palm” to “tears of joy,” emoji are a great way to spice up a text message or get a point across. But where exactly do they come from? On this special episode of Start Here, producer Cameron Chertavian heads down the emoji rabbit hole, looking at how these now-ubiquitous pixelated images go from an idea in a creator's imagination to an icon on your phone. Cameron traces the complicated emoji-proposal process by speaking to a proposer, a linguist, and a member of the emoji governing body, the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brad.
0:03.0	Back with another holiday special for you,
0:05.2	we are spending this week diving into some of the stories
0:07.4	that have really captured the imagination of our team.
0:10.5	Today, we have our producer, Cameron Chertavian with us.
0:13.4	And Cameron, you told me you wanted to come into the studio
0:15.2	and talk about emojis, right?
0:17.4	Like pictures on our keyboards, right?
0:19.0	What's up?
0:20.2	Yeah, I did.
0:21.4	Before we get into that, I wanted to ask,
0:23.2	do you have a favorite emoji, Brad?
0:25.6	Do I have a favorite emoji?
0:28.2	I guess maybe the horror face with like,
0:32.0	it's got these big white eyes and it's just like,
0:34.0	oh, you know, I have like my resums up.
0:35.6	So I can just look at my resums.
0:36.8	We can check that out.
0:38.5	Yeah, okay, here's who I use the most,
0:40.3	is the person with their arms crossed.
0:42.6	Like, no, don't want not taking this on.
0:45.4	Nope, keep that away from me.
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