This poster. Deadpool’s new poster. No pictures. No masked heroes.
No words. Just 3 emojis. So simple, yet so engaging.
Emojis have become an integral part of communication in
digital platform. It has become so important that people feel—literally—that
words are not enough to communicate and use emojis.
Like many good things (sushi, kishimoto, akihabara) emoji
also has its roots in Japan. 2015 was quite a year for emoji. It became quite a
phenomenon. It became 2015 word of the year. An emoji only chat and social networking
app, Emojicate, was launched. Seriously though, is it even possible to get a
message across only with emojis? Well, I definitely can’t seem to manage it.
But, emojis do make it possible for me to say something, or
to be precise to write something sarcastic and make it sound like a funny, unintentional
remark just by adding some funny, smiley emojis in the end.
So, leaving aside my evil intentions with emojis ; ) (see
what I did there? He he,) they also lighten the mood, help fill awkward
silences while texting, help in getting out of situations where we really don’t
know how to react, they are what hand gestures and face expressions are to us
during a face-to-face conversation.
This whole emoji business, is not just about pictorial representations
of our faces and emotions, there are some daring souls out there developing a
grammatical structure and system for the emoji language.
Digital is
the most common and biggest medium for communication in our times, and emojis
seem to function really well in this medium. So, move aside English and Mandarin, EMOJI is all set to become the new global language.
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