> queries containing emoji whose colloquial meaning had diverged from their objective depiction, such as the infamous [eggplant emoji], left users unsatisfied.

> queries containing emoji whose colloquial meaning had diverged from their objective depiction, such as the infamous [eggplant emoji], left users unsatisfied. Well but how is that different from how words have worked since the dawn of civilization? If tomorrow the collective society starts using the word kaleidoscope as an euphemism for penis, then any software that statically maps words to meanings will also fail. This is not a problem tied to emojis specifically.