I believe the poster was referring to the trend of casual messaging—not specifically chat—taking on more of a memic composition in the form of images, GIFs, and the like.
I like the classic yellow blob design. It's undeniably neutral regardless of race, age or gender. Everyone used it until, well, one day someone told us that we should triggered by it.
When you start diversifying, it never ends because you cannot include everyone and someone always, always feel left out. At least Facebook emoji is still the yellow blob though. :)
I think this, in some way, a common cycle for things.
When thing start to get uniform, we tends to break it apart, and when things began to spin out of control, we try to unify it again.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 23.7 ms ] threador lets just have it all and stop worrying so much (so lets have these ungendered ones, sure, but lets also have a real gun emoji)
Now, I am way more likely to text a Bitmoji or “sticker” or whatever, none of which have any dependence on Emoji.
I don't understand this; how so? And on to what encoding has "chat" moved?
When you start diversifying, it never ends because you cannot include everyone and someone always, always feel left out. At least Facebook emoji is still the yellow blob though. :)
I think this, in some way, a common cycle for things. When thing start to get uniform, we tends to break it apart, and when things began to spin out of control, we try to unify it again.
and the cycle continues...