Two smiley faces: Episode six

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In the future, 10 years from now, will our fingers still reach for a laughing face with crying eyes? Will Unicode and its strict approval process for new emoji be relevant at all? Possibly not. We travel to Zimbabwe to hear how some designers are bypassing Silicon Valley by building their own emoji and sticker sets that reflect life in Africa. And we end the series in Shanghai, where we hear how in some parts of Asia, emoji have already been forgotten.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:04.0	Oh, my emoji.
0:06.0	I do probably use more of the skeptical emoji than most people.
0:12.0	There's a crystal ball and I always... the skeptical emoji than most people.
0:13.0	There's a crystal ball and I always like to put the sparkles.
0:17.0	It's like putting very dust.
0:19.0	Ghost emoji with its tongue sticking out.
0:21.0	Thinking face or the eye roll.
0:24.0	If I want to emphasize my ethnicity, then I tend to use more round skin tone.
0:31.0	I don't have a favorite emoji. Oh I don't I really don't.
0:36.3	Elephants you know worms dumplings. Oh you the peach because I'm a hugger the hug, the hug emoji is the top one, but I'm a real face-pom girl.
0:47.0	Like, really?
0:50.0	Top 2.
1:00.0	Well, emoji lovers, we're reaching the end of our journey through the emoji universe. I'm Sarah Trino.
1:02.0	And I'm Vivian Noonis.
1:08.0	You've come with us to 1990s Tokyo where emoji were born.
1:14.4	We travelled on to the west coast of the United States where a decade ago tech titans revolutionized
1:20.9	the way we text, giving us a new visual way to express ourselves.
1:26.0	We've heard how certain subcultures have made emoji their own.
1:32.0	And so have some criminal gangs. their own.
1:32.5	And so have some criminal gangs.
1:35.8	We've lifted the lid on Silicon Valley's mysterious Unicode organization.
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