This is how The New Yorker describes Emoji.
(H/T Brian)
Emoji counts as an auto linguistic reblog.
if you can't hide it, just throw some fucking glitter all over it
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Emoji (the word is an anglicization of Japanese characters that translate literally to “picture letter”) takes the idea of the emoticon—the smiley face :), the sad face :(, the winking face ;), the heart <3—and brings it to its logical conclusion: full color, detail, a world of options. For starters, the classic emoticon faces are turned right-side up, now rendered as bright yellow orbs, and their expressions, no longer subjected to the limits of standard punctuation marks, run the gamut of cartoonish emotion: grin with eyes closed; grin with eyes open; wide-eyed, red-cheeked embarrassment; eyes-lowered, red-cheeked embarrassment; gritted teeth; hearts for eyes; puckered lips; wink with a smile; wink with tongue out; features crumpled in misery; eyebrows furrowed in anger.
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For me it’s just an auto emoji reblog
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There is a very long descriptive list of many emoji which is too long to reblog here.
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Begins in the New Aesthetic and ends as a poem
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blurintofocus reblogged this from bobbyfinger and added:
Emoji counts as an auto linguistic reblog.
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joshfjelstad said:
“bright yellow orbs”
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