🇯🇵 HOW THE EMOJI BECAME OUR UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE The first emojis weren't a grand plan for global communication; they were a 12x12 pixel solution for Japanese pagers in the late '90s. Then Steve Jobs made them a default keyboard option, and suddenly, a tiny yellow circle with a smile became our global lingua franca. We've now come full circle. We went from ancient pictographs to complex written language, and now we're back to using tiny ideograms to express complex emotions. The world is now fluent in a language that's both universal and profoundly ambiguous. The thinking face 🤔 isn't just an emoji - it's a self-portrait. Source: Aziz Nishanov, @_fluxfeeds