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Hey, this is Annie, and welcome to Steph on Never Told Your collection of IHart Radio.

And yes, I am solo today. Samantha, her voice is not cooperating, and that is very important in an audio medium. So we wish her a speedy recovery. But in the meantime, we have this classic for you. This was a fun one.

I do think we should come back and update this one more fully. But it's about emojis and

sexting. And it's been on my mind because Apple is releasing eight new emojis, I believe, and it's always a big deal when they do.

And there's a lot of discussion about what gets chosen as an emoji and what doesn't

and what that says about society and things like that.

It's also been on my mind because there was an S&L sketch recently about the most popular

and least popular emojis, and I hadn't thought about looking at the least popular ones, but now I'm really curious. But also,

the show Adolescence had a scene in it that I thought was really interesting, where the

detective and his son have a conversation, and his son is basically telling him,

you're going about this investigation all wrong because you don't understand the meaning of emojis.

You don't understand what this is actually communicating, and you're actually embarrassing yourself,

which is true.

And it's interesting to me also the

generational differences between how we understand certain emojis. So there is a lot to unpack with

this. And it's always been a topic that stuck with me. I was lucky enough to get to speak at DragonCon a couple of

years ago. And I brought this one up just because it's one of those things that some of us don't

really put a lot of thought into. But I find really fascinating. And it is a part of our life of

like choosing that emoji.

What does it mean?

And why don't they have this one?

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