23. What does a sparkle heart mean? 💖 This is like the Neutral Good of heart emoji. It’s playful, cute, and twee enough that it doesn’t necessarily have heavy romantic implications.

Like emoticons or ASCII art, emoji have been transformed from a visual vernacular into something that's used to create works of art. It’s been happening for while says Salditch.

Each open sourced emoji has three iterations: the fully 3D version, complete with texture and color gradients; a flat "color" version that retains the basic color but removes textures and ...

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