It’s funny, you can go look at the point at which Apple started touting emoji additions to their different OS updates and it coincides perfectly with the decline and staleness of their software ecosystem more generally. Not even the TikTok generation cares about emoji as much as you’d think they do based on how much effort and attention goes into emoji and documenting emoji changes (like with this submission).

Emoji could disappear entirely tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.