This is all so archaic. Why are we sticking to a hard coded list? Instead, we just need emoji_start and emoji_end codepoints. The text between is rendered by AI into an emoji.

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We don't even need the AI, the text could just get rendered in the mind of the receiving person.

People who are imaginatively challenged can use assistive technologies so they are not left behind of course.

While I understand that people like a base vocabulary of the common elements defined in a list, it has always seemed like a mistake that we keep adding to some massive list for every fringe demand, instead of just embedding tiny SVGs that can be perfectly aligned to every single platform, niche, industry, and so on.

I shudder to be on the receiving end of these, using a phone with Apple "Intelligence" as its AI backend.

Genius indistinguishable from madness.

https://imgur.com/a/qA5aYso

I kind of love this idea...

This is pretty much how Apple's genmojis work, but because they're platform specific, they get sent as png images.

Yes! (minus the AI part)

I feel like my (sub)language is being designed by committee. Ridiculous!

Show me a chat client/platform that can do inline SVG emojis and allow people to spread them using copy+paste and build emoji libraries, and I'll switch instantly.

Nice. Instead of "this meeting could have been an email" now we have "this meeting could have been an emoji."