Emoji: Year in Review

While emoji have been around a while, this was the year these pictographs firmly lodged themselves into our lives.

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Additional footage from:

Disney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKCOboB6xQ&t=61s
idownloadblog: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/10/22/how-to-know-what-an-emoji-means/
FOX: http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/32126045/anti-drunk-driving-billboards-featuring-emojis-hit-south-carolina-highways
Update: http://updato.com/how-to/download-google-keyboard-3-1-19633-with-spoken-emojis
iDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKvxISDbZMU
Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXEkoXgb4bI
Fidelities Development: https://fidelitasdevelopment.com/does-text-message-marketing-fit-into-your-2017-marketing-plan/
Pedestrian Tv: https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/tech/the-schmick-new-macbook-has-a-touch-bar-display-fo/567288d7-560c-47eb-81a3-f166b8769cdc.htm
Linkmoji: http://www.xn--vi8hiv.ws/
Fortune: http://fortune.com/2016/10/29/godaddy-emoji-domains/
Texts andPranks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1oa0erHrg&t=60s
Cosmopolitan: http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a31721/what-emojis-mean-definitions-japanese/
Emoji Base: https://www.emojibase.com/emoji/1f525/fire
iEmoji: http://www.iemoji.com/view/emoji/695/animals-nature/collision-symbol
Emoji Stickers: http://www.emojistickers.com/products/face-with-stuck-out-tongue
USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2015/04/28/26519615/
Red Bubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/sadgurl00/works/13863128-peach-emoji?p=poster
The Street Fashion: http://thestreetfashion5xpro.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-streetall-crazy-for-emojithe-new.html
Comedy Central: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo
The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/11/11406944/emoji-meaning-difference-ios-android
Twitter: https://twitter.com/getemoji/status/651112015918927872
NewNowNext: http://www.newnownext.com/facebook-adds-lgbt-emojis-for-pride-month/06/2014/
The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/08/03/incredibly-sexy-emoji/
The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/24/12633912/apple-job-emoji-unicode-consortium-recommendations
Apple: http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/08/apple-adds-more-gender-diverse-emoji-in-ios-10.html
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_TransGender-Symbol_Plain3.svg
The National: http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/its-time-emojis-adopted-arab-dress
MOMA: https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museum-of-modern-arts-collection-c6060e141f61
Cosmopolitan: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a5266102/emoji-movie-details-title-cast/
The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/11/01/the-shrug-emoticon-gets-the-emoji-treatment-in-ios-10-2/