Episode Details

We send 10 billion of them every day. Where do they come from? Zachary Crockett hearts this topic.

• SOURCES:
  • Jennifer 8. Lee, co-founder of Emojination.

• RESOURCES:
  • "Apple Removes The Gun Emoji, Replaces It With A Squirt Gun," by Carl Franzen (Popular Science, 2021).
  • "Ford’s secret fight for a pickup truck emoji," by Mark Dent (The Hustle, 2019).
  • "The WIRED Guide to Emoji," by Arielle Pardes (WIRED, 2018).
  • "How the iPhone won over Japan and gave the world emoji," by Sam Byford (The Verge, 2017).
  • "About Emoji," (Unicode Consortium).

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