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Emojis 😊💩🍆

Patented: History of Inventions

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The First Emojis

The first set of emojis was developed by Shigetaka Koolita for a Japanese mobile phone company in 1999. They look much more pixelated obviously than the ones now, but they're all pretty much the same as what we've got. There are very strict regulations on what you can make a emoji solve. And specifically, there's very little to do with sex in emojis. The skull has been recently very common popular, at least probably no longer is on TikTok because it's, you know, to die laughing.

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