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Jeremy Burge

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  1. “There's an emoji that does that. You think about the amount of signal you get from somebody's voice on an analog telephone. And when you strip that out and all you're communicating is like LOL, you don't actually know how sincere that laugh is or that chuckle or whatever that person's trying to convey. And so emoji gives us a much bigger palette to convey this kind of like extra like limbic meaning that we want to have in our communications, but we can't because we're just texting all the time.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “If the pipes are so mechanical, like phones and machine, you no longer have the nonverbal aspect. So this is actually replacing sort of this human element of the glimmer in your eye or like the cheeky, the blush on your cheek. There's an emoji that does that.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Just inundated with text. We live in a text culture, right? We communicate via text. Our careers are run over email. We read constantly. Everything we do is mediated through almost literal words. And so emoji represents this kind of reaction to that. And the popularity of emoji, I think, is largely due to the fact that we need some other way of expressing ourselves over text.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I love this. I've been thinking about this so much. When I did emoji dick, it was more of an experiment around crowdsourcing an emoji itself. Like I wasn't so much interested in making a formal case that emoji could be a language because it was still so early. Could it get there maybe one day? Yeah. But Unicode makes a really good point. They're like, emoji is not a language. It shouldn't be a language. The value is that it's ambiguous. And I've really come around to that thinking and this idea that the charm of sending an emoji is that it can be interpreted in a couple different ways. And that's actually why we value it. And I'll go further and say that a lot of people ask me why emoji have become so popular. And I think it's tied to the fact that we now.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “More than try the map technically the same emoji, but it's like rendered and sort of interpreted differently. They like emoji that can have multiple meanings. You can also just have like emoji that have one meaning, but it really has to be a really good one that's going to be one meaning. So for us, the Chinese takeout box, for example, one of the arguments that we made is that it's one, it's an iconic shape. It also symbolizes both an entire cuisine, which is Chinese food, and also a means of eating, which is delivery and takeout.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, yeah. I was just like, who knows? Stone face. Other people use it for stoned, right? Like there's lots of combinations in there. The reason why it's in there is that there's a statue in downtown Tokyo. I think it's a Cebuya station that is called Moyai, which is a name of just like it's a proper noun of that statue, which was made by an artist that was like a reference to original Easter Island head. So it turns out Japanese teenagers use this waypoint to meet each other. And so that's how it ended up in Japanese cell phones, and that's why it ended up in emoji. The artists used this inspiration of Easter Island. The interesting twist is that when you look at it on the iPhone, it doesn't look anything like the statue in Tokyo. At some point, Apple was like, we're not going to make it like this Tokyo one. We're going to do the original one. Android, on the other hand, their Moyai emoji looks like the Tokyo Station one.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Whoa, the Easter Island head is kind of a violation of that one, but that's got its own story. A couple years ago, with a big update, the Easter Island head showed up in the back of the travel section of emoji. And I was like, what is that doing there? Who's traveling to Easter Island so often that they need to use the Easter Island at emoji? And it kind of just stuck in my mind. And then I started using it in this kind of like slightly culturally insensitive way to like reference some supernatural phenomenon that I didn't understand, right? Like if I was in a conversation with somebody and I was just like completely flumbled, so I would just like send that one. Yeah.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Is an interesting career, and they have these quarterly meetings, and then I just show up, and they're very welcoming. You know, they're like, you know, thank you for coming. What brings you here? Tell us about yourself. It felt like showing up at church. Like a new church or a new member, they all knew each other very well. They're very excited that there's like someone, you know, young and like diverse that is like just like randomly shown up. And so I in that process learn how you get emoji passed and how they're regulated. And so in January of 2016, we submitted a full proposal for dumplings takeout box chopsticks and fortune cookies and got those all passed. So those will be Unicode 10, which means that that's announced in June of 2017. And so they'll actually hit your phones several months after that. I was like, wow, billions of keyboards will be impacted by this. That's amazing.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Dumpling. Samosa ravioli. I was like, okay, emoji are universal, and then dumplings are universal. How could there not be a dumpling emoji? And just in my mind, I was just like clearly whatever system in place has failed.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Spiral And I was like, how could there not be dumplings, right? Because it's such a universal food, right? Because there's like pierogies in Poland and Momos and Nokiosa and empanadas. Like, it's just like a food from around the world.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Apple doesn't have a dumpling emoji. I was like, how could that be? I was like, because there's so many obscure Japanese food emojis in Semoji are from Japan. Like you have, you know, everything ranging from ramen to currier rice to tempura to like the rice thingies on a stick to there's even the like triangle rice ball that looks like it had a bikini wax”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I can definitely see it being sort of irreconcilable difference between people in relationships fast forward many, many years. Emoji have showed up on our iPhone and I'm texting with my friend Iing Liu, who's best known as the designer of the Twitter fail whale. So we're texting back and forth about like dumplings. And so I send her a picture of the dumplings I'm making. And then she texts me back knife and fork, knife and fork, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. And she goes.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I have a friend who showed me exchange between a friend of his who was dating a guy and he would only send her emoji. And she was like, I just can't handle this. And he showed me these screenshots of their exchange. And it was hilarious.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Just started. I don't even actually just be blunt. I had a very hard time using emoji because I didn't quite understand how to even. Frankly, use that mom. I don't understand when people send it to me. If it's not the obvious heart, you know, et cetera. But as I've been using it more, I found myself sort of expressing myself now and kind of quirky ways. And I don't know if people really get it or not, but I'm getting a kick out of it.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I wasn't a really big emoji user. In fact, the first time I ever heard of emoji was when Fred started his Kickstarter called Emoji Dick. And I was like, what the f? This is before they showed up on our iPhones, like Perky Little Yellow Faces. I was like, what? It's like sound something very bizarre.”

    2016-08-03 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source