This would still happen with or without the platforms doing it. Like any other piece of language, emoji will change meaning over time or between groups, and mak

This would still happen with or without the platforms doing it. Like any other piece of language, emoji will change meaning over time or between groups, and make it hard to read other group's texts. For a current example, if you see a text saying "I loved your <eggplant emoji>", it can have at least two very different, but quite common meanings (either liking some eggplant based food, or a sexual allusion).