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Is Global Warming Causing Emojis to Multiply: Can We Eat Them?
And why are they always yellow?
There is a history to these little people without bodies. And it is time that we acknowledge it.
The question bears asking: Where did Emojis come from?
Maybe they were aliens that tried to take over the world or by-products from nuclear testing in the desert. The best theory is they grew from yellow moon pies that no one wanted to eat. We all know that’s not natural banana flavoring.
There are theories, and in the quest for creating Pulitzer Prize-quality journalism, I set out to tackle the question of emoji origin.
Taking a sip of coffee and a bite from my artificially banana-flavored yellow moon pie, I took a few milliseconds and did a Google search. Immediately, over 38 million web references were identified.
I was off to the races, like Bob Woodward investigating Watergate.
According to the first website I opened:
Many assume the word emoji has roots in emotion, but the resemblance is purely coincidental. It comes from the Japanese for a picture (絵, pronounced eh), plus a letter or character (文字, mōji). Essentially, the word describes a pictograph.
