Does anyone still use emoji? Except for ones on forum replies. I sometimes get an emoji as a one-glyph reply to texts. That's about it. They were far more popular a decade ago.

Isn't this expected? It's always been custom emotes everywhere. Even before emojis, the "default emoticons" fell out of favor among avid users.

Antiquated symbols used in historical texts is something I approve of in Unicode.

Marketing copy and job offers are full of them, and AI has made that much more frequent. I assume you include all kind of pictures punctuating sentences, such as "someone at a computer" when you mention working, etc., not just yellow faces.