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Curiology (EMOJI) Part 1 with Various Emoji Experts

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Importance of Emojis in Communication

The emoji keyboard is there to be utilized by all of us in whatever way we fancy. It ultimately comes down to whether or not the receiver of a message we crafted with a particular emoji will have interpreted as the way we've intended it to be interpreted. The Purple Heart emoji, for example, is used hugely by fans of the K-Pop band BTS. There's an excellent academic paper called Why Pizza Emoji Means I Love You that talks about how couples will repurpose certain emojis between each other.

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