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Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

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Please don't upload pornographic content. (use an external image host for that)

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Sticky: Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals (www.unicode.org)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:23 pm »

Emoji 15.0's "black bird" emoji (🐦‍⬛) originates from a proposal for an emoji which would be representative of crows and ravens. There is still no corvid emoji. (lemmy.ml)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Thu Jan 1, 2026 11:57 pm »
Category:Individual emoji - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:40 pm »
The "Man in Business Suit Levitating" emoji (🕴️) was created by Vincent Connare (better known for Comic Sans) and is based on a record company logo which is based on reggae musician Peter Tosh (en.wikipedia.org)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Wed Sep 17, 2025 5:38 pm »
"😂" was proclaimed the Word of the Year by Oxford English Dictionary in 2015. (en.wikipedia.org)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:25 pm »
Rejected Emoji Proposals (charlottebuff.com)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:19 pm »
The 🧑‍🚀 Astronaut emoji is a ZWJ sequence combining 🧑 Person, Zero Width Joiner and 🚀 Rocket. These display as a single emoji on supported platforms. Added to Emoji 12.1 in 2019. (emoji.fandom.com)	0	Arthur Besse	1	Mon Sep 1, 2025 11:11 pm »