Emojipedia is an emoji reference website created by "the world's pre-eminent emoji specialist" Jeremy Burge in 2013.
Emojipedia documents changes to emoji symbols and their meanings in the Unicode Standard, is a voting member of The Unicode Consortium and has been called "the world's number one resource on emoji".
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History
Jeremy Burge created Emojipedia in 2013 and told the Hackney Gazette "the idea came about when Apple added emojis to iOS 6 but failed to mention which ones were new".
Emojipedia rose to prominence with the release of Unicode 7 in 2014 when The Register reported the "online encyclopedia of emojis has been chucked offline after vast numbers of people visited the site" in relation to the downtime experienced by the site at the time.
Emojipedia told Business Insider in early 2016 that it served "over 140 million page views" per year, and was profitable. In mid 2016, Emojipedia "urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon" citing cross-platform confusion.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the site served 23 million page views in October 2017.
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World Emoji Day
World Emoji Day is a holiday created by Emojipedia in 2014 which is held on 17 July each year. According to the New York Times the choice of 17 July was "based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones".
Emojipedia used the second annual World Emoji Day to release EmojiVote as "an experiment in Emoji democracy". In 2017, Apple used this event to preview new emojis for iOS and Emojipedia announced the winners of the World Emoji Awards live from the New York Stock Exchange.
Adopt an Emoji
Emojipedia launched "Adopt an Emoji" in September 2015 as "an attempt to make the site free of display ads" according to Wired. This preceded a similar program by the Unicode Consortium in December 2015.
The Emojipedia "Adopt an Emoji" program was shut down in November 2016, citing "confusion for users and advertisers" due to the similarity with Unicode's fundraising effort.
Cultural impact
Emojipedia's images for future emoji designs have been used as the source of jokes in opening monologues on late night television shows such as The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In 2018, Portland Maine's Press Herald reported that Senator Angus King had endorsed a new lobster emoji but Emojipedia's design was called out as "anatomically incorrect" due to an incorrect number of legs. The number of legs on Emojipedia's lobster design was subsequently fixed in a future release. Slate reported this as "a victory for scientists and lobster fans everywhere".
Skater Tony Hawk criticized Emojipedia's skateboard design as being "'mid-'80s ... beginner-level' board 'definitely not representative' of the modern sport" and subsequently worked with the company to produce an updated design.
On BBC Radio 4, Stephen Fry described Emojipedia as "a kind of Académie française for your iPhone" when assessing its impact on the English language.
See also
In 2015, Emojipedia entered its first partnership with Quartz to release an app that allowed users access previously-hidden country flag emojis on iOS.
In 2017 The Library of Congress launched the Web Cultures Web Archive which featured a history of "memes, gifs, and emojis" from references including Emojipedia, Boing Boing and GIPHY.
References
External links
- Official website
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