Why did emoticons and smileys become emojis?

To save space

>>61980713
"emoticon" and "smiley" were already trademarked

>>61980713
Emoji are a special subset of smileys/emoticons. Specifically those that are added to the unicode standard.

>>61980713
>>61980728
Every website sending their set of png's vs unicode characters displayed using user emojiset of choice

>>61980713
Chinks

>>61980713
Normies love garbage.

Now you know.

Probably something to do with the Jews

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>>61980713
Because Apple, the japanese, and unicode

>>61981148
Except that instead of sending their pngs, now every website sends their webfonts with hundreds of icons they won't even use.

>>61981181
not this time
The answer is normies

>>61981156
wat? Emojis clearly come from arabs

Refugees brought in Emojis

emojis are just normies stealing our memes again

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>>61980728
>>61981148
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