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Collected links:

Tom Scott on the genius involved in the invention of UTF-8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4

This longform article about the ginger (redhead) emoji goes into a lot of detail on both the Consortium and Everson: https://www.popsci.com/why-we-have-ginger-emoji

99% Invisible did a great episode about 🧘 : https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position/

Kurita’s 176 original 12x12px emoji are the header for this MOMA blog post: https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museum-of-modern-arts-collection-c6060e141f61

Kaomoji: http://kaomoji.ru/en

The Frowning Pile of Poo emoji request: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17407-frowning-poo.pdf

 

Yes, I like saying “Mt Fuji emoji”. It’s fun.