Two smiley faces: Episode four

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

So how do you get an emoji added to the list? We hear from the women who have had hundreds of emoji approved between them, from the sari, to the mirror, to the one-piece bathing suit. How did they do it? And will Amy and Rachel finally get their drone emoji? We ask the woman who is in charge of it all.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh my emoji. I do probably use more of the skeptical emoji than most people.
0:10.0	There's a crystal ball and I always like to put the sparkles. It's like putting very dust.
0:17.0	Ghost emoji with its tongue sticking out.
0:19.0	Thinking face or the eye roll.
0:22.0	If I want to emphasize my ethnicity,
0:25.0	then I tend to use more round skin tone.
0:29.0	I don't have a favorite emoji.
0:32.0	Oh, I don't, I really don't have a favorite emoji.
0:33.0	Oh, I don't, I really don't.
0:34.6	Elephants, you know, worms, dumplings.
0:37.6	Oh, you, the peach.
0:39.4	Because I'm a hugger, the hug emoji is the top one, but I'm a real
0:44.1	face palm girl. It's like really.
0:48.6	Top two.
0:49.6	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:55.0	Hello again, I'm Vivian Noonis.
0:58.0	Welcome back, I'm Sarah Trina.
1:00.0	You've joined the show where we lift the lid on emoji, tiny pictures on your phone that cause a huge amount of feeling.
1:08.5	If this is the first episode you're joining us for, don't forget you can catch up on BBC sounds. But now you're here
1:15.1	let's do a quick recap on what we've covered so far. First,
1:19.8	emoji originated in Japan in the 1990s.
1:24.1	And we have the Japanese to thank for the word Emogee
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