13 Aug 2023

Emojipedia

From Sunday Afternoon, 2:50 pm on 13 August 2023

Emojipedia's founder says if an aubergine, peach, gun, bomb or poo were submitted to become emojis in this day and age, it's unlikely they would be accepted, Jeremy Burge has been called the "Samuel Johnson of emoji". Ten years ago he founded Emojipedia, an online reference site of emoji characters and their meaning. He was also a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, which is responsible for reviewing requests for new emoji. He currently writes a Mobile Tech Journal and has a popular TikTok channel about living on a narrow boat....and spoke to Kim Hill last weekend.

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