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Must be an incredible feeling to have designed and drawn what is fast becoming a core part of our language. Although looks like the pile of poo and ice cream n

• pantalaimon 9y ago
  They are still the same in WhatsApp
  • Slartie 9y ago
    WhatsApp seems to be an interesting case with regard to Emoji history anyway. Am I right that they appear to have copied Apple's emoji library at some time in the past and reused those on all platforms (except iPhone, of course) instead of the native emoji symbols that those platforms also started to provide? Are they still doing that today? I remember talking to confused Android users many years ago, when all this Emoji and WhatsApp craze started (I'm from Germany, where there are a lot of Android users and WhatsApp is king among messaging services due to its multiplatform capability, while iMessage isn't used nearly as much due to its inherent limitation to iOS) and people saw me using Emojis in other apps on iOS that were not WhatsApp. They were like "hey, how did you get those cute WhatsApp icons out of WhatsApp and into that other app?". It got pretty clear that many Android users associated the Emojis directly with WhatsApp instead of recognizing them as a feature provided by the operating system, and that seems to have been caused mostly by WhatsApp copying the iOS Emoji library early on, when Android did not yet have Emojis or had different-looking ones.
    • mxstbr 9y ago
      Not only did they ship the iOS ones on Android for the longest while, but they recently started testing a completely self-designed set of emojis on Android that looks unlike any other! See http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/03/whatsapp-introduces-emoji-set-latest-android-beta-v2-17-364/ http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/03/whatsapp-introduces-... and https://emojipedia.org/whatsapp/ https://emojipedia.org/whatsapp/ for the full list.
      • currysausage 9y ago
        My girlfriend recently switched to iOS just because she wants those emojis back for WhatsApp. Can’t even blame her!
        • acct1771 9y ago
          Hieroglyphic society....
      • dilap 9y ago
        yikes, that's like the store-brand version of apple's emojis.
    • ygra 9y ago
      I was quite confused for a while because when I entered [e] (which the emoji keyboard and the input field showed as [−7]) I got [2½] from WhatsApp which looks completely different in tone. [−7] https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10-fall-creators-update/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/ https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10-fall-creators-up... [2½] https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/ https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-6.0/grinning-face-with-smil... [e] https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/ https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/
    • Tijdreiziger 9y ago
      Keeping emoji consistent across platforms was seriously a great move by WhatsApp (and others like Facebook Messenger, who use their own emoji set). This way, users don't have to worry about how the emoji they send might appear on the recipient's device.
• bsimpson 9y ago
  https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/soft-ice-cream/ https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/soft-ice-cream/ https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/pile-of-poo/ https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/pile-of-poo/
• madeofpalk 9y ago
  Over the past few releases of iOS, Apple has redesigned them all to give them a new feel and make them more consistent.