I think we really have the iPhone jailbreakers to thank for that. U.S. developers were allergic almost offended by anything that wasn't ASCII and then someone r

I think we really have the iPhone jailbreakers to thank for that. U.S. developers were allergic almost offended by anything that wasn't ASCII and then someone released an app that unlocked the emoji icons that Apple had originally intended only for Japan. Emoji is defined in the astral planes so almost nothing at the time was capable of understanding them, yet were so irresistible that developers worldwide who would otherwise have done nothing to address their cultural biases immediately fixed everything overnight to have them. So thanks to cartoons, we now have a more inclusive world.