> Was it simply bad design? No, just a cultural difference. Most of the early emoji in Unicode were drawn from the existing set of emoji already in use in Japa

> Was it simply bad design? No, just a cultural difference. Most of the early emoji in Unicode were drawn from the existing set of emoji already in use in Japanese telecom. As such, these emoji have a strong Japanese cultural bias in their original meanings. One of the goals of Unicode is to be able to encode text from existing encodings. In (informal) Japanese communication these emoji were in use, so Unicode encoded them. Readers of Japanese comics are probably familiar with most of these facial expressions, including that triumphant look. The Samsung one on emojipedia is probably closest to that emoji's archetype.