Yeah, I'm not saying emoji came from emoticon. I'm saying some people called them emoticons, and others called them emojis. At some point, we there was a debate

Yeah, I'm not saying emoji came from emoticon. I'm saying some people called them emoticons, and others called them emojis. At some point, we there was a debate about it on the internet (when the internet was much smaller), and the collective decision was to call them emojis. I'm citing myself as a primary source because I was there when it happened.