Two smiley faces: Episode three

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We travel to California to find out who controls the emoji available on every single smartphone in the world - the mysterious Unicode Consortium. This secretive organisation decides what is included and what is left off the official emoji keyboard. But are they up to the job? Not everyone is convinced. Presenter: Sarah Treanor and Vivienne Nunis Producer: Sarah Treanor

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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.
0:16.0	Ghost emoji with its tongue sticking out.
0:18.0	Thinking face or the eye roll.
0:21.0	If I want to emphasize my ethnicity,
0:24.3	then I tend to use more round skin tone.
0:28.0	I don't have a favorite emoji.
0:32.0	Oh, I don't, I really don't.
0:34.0	elephants you know worms dumplings.
0:37.0	Oh you the peach because I'm a hugger the hug emoji is the top one but I'm a real
0:43.6	face palm girl.
0:44.8	It's like really.
0:46.2	Top two.
0:48.7	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:55.0	Hello, I'm Vivian Noonis.
1:00.0	And I'm Sarah Trino.
1:02.0	Welcome to this week's emoji extravaganza.
1:06.0	To begin, let's check in with Amy and Rachel.
1:09.0	Our emoji proposers.
1:11.0	They work in the drone industry. As we heard in episode one, they submitted a long
1:16.3	application to have a drone emoji officially approved and added to the keyboard.
1:27.2	So we have heard back from the Unicode consortium regarding the drone emoji proposal that we submitted. Unfortunately, the emoji subcommittee has denied our proposal.
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