❓ Why Are Emoji Popular?

[@FiniteAtticus]

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[@Jabrils]

Atticus my guy thank you so much for the kind words. Sorry it took me a while to reply-Jabril

[@conjecturemm]

Could you potentially post somewhere your full recorded call with Dr. Evans? Would love to watch that!

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[@Jabrils]

Thank you Miriam & welcome, I hope that enjoy what you find :) - Jabril

[@osemudiame123]

you have such good quality of work yet you do not get many views. still you continue to consistently put out work. I respect that greatly and hope you keep doing what you do.

[@Jabrils]

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[@conjecturemm]

Yo! If you look at defining characteristics of language from a linguistics perspective, there are some pretty cool features (that are usually agreed) upon that qualify or disqualify some communicative elements from being considered a language. For example, can they express discreteness? In the sense that they can express when or in what tense an event will occur?

[@Jabrils]

can't wait for your video, we should of collaborated on this one! - Jabril

[@felixcroc]

Emojis are kinda like punctuation marks. Question marks can indicate confusion, Exclamation marks indicate a strong emotion, both together or an interrobang indicate bewilderment. Though this mostly applies to the face emojis, stuff like emojis of buildings, animals, etc. don't implicitly imply emotion, though I can see how some might use them (e.g. a fox emoji might imply sarcasm or sneakiness). I like to also equate them to Chinese characters: each represents a distinct thing or idea, or sometimes multiple, like a house for a house obviously, but other stuff too, like a heart can represent hearts and love. And I think emojis aren't a language, just like Chinese characters aren't a language, whereas Chinese is. All languages can be written in all scripts (though you'll probably need to add diacritics and such) from Latin to Cyrillic to Arabic to Chinese characters. Emoji is a script, not a full language.

[@Jabrils]

thank you for your comment forgingiron, more info on the topic the better! - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

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Damn the production qualities of these videos are impressive.

[@Jabrils]

thank you Praveen, I hope that you enjoy the content man! - Jabril

[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

"I wasn't paying attention, now I've lost my fishing rod on the bus and I'm sad".

[@Jabrils]

hmm, interesting take, but where do you derive the "I'm sad" part? haha - Jabril

[@SirGarthur]

It's not jabrils, he wouldn't have signed it if it was really him 😏

[@waylandthebat6921]

A few nitpicks: Hieroglyphs were never a true alphabet, but rather a complex semi-logographic abjad-syllabary thing. Basically, there was totally different symbols for, say, _"b(Vowel)"_ , _"b(V)s"_ , _"Bes"_ etc. In fact, it seems you keep misusing "alphabet" for any writing system, when in reality it refers to a specific type (Namely, one that marks it's consonants and vowels with distinct characters, rather than having the vowels appear as part of the consonant [Abugidas], omitting the vowels entirely [Abjads], omitting the _consonants_ entirely [hypothetical Anti-Abjads], fusing both vowel and consonant into a single unit [Syllabaries, or "kanas"], or ignoring both and have symbols that abstractly convey ideas [Logographies]). Also, the pronunciation of "ASCII" is _"ass-KEE"_ , according to it's inventor. Now for my two cents: I think that, if anything, emojis would for a complimentary script to Latin, rather than supplanting it, sort of like the relationship between Kanji and Hiragana in Japanese: Two separate scripts working in tandem to cover different functions. And a final brick to this wall of text: There's actually a pretty big market for new languages, or _conlangs_ , to those of us (like myself) that make them. It's just it's mostly for making languages for artistic endeavors or secret codes more than international languages, nowadays.

[@Jabrils]

incredible comment, I am very honored for you time Wayland, do you mind shooting me an email to help me identify where I've made error, I without a doubt would love to fix the errors so that I am not spreading false information. My email is science AT sefdstuff DOT com. Either way I thank you again for your time! - Jabril

[@conjecturemm]

Hey! I am making a follow up to this video and would love to pick your brain about this, especially relating to the practice of creating conlangs. Let me know!

[@waylandthebat6921]

***** Oh! Sure, I'd love to help you out. How about you drop your email and I get back to you on the weekend?

[@conjecturemm]

+Wayland The Bat whoo! thanks. [e-mail]

[@ErinP79]

Emojis totally help with the tone. They also help when I don't know exactly what to say.

[@Jabrils]

hahahah best comment; but in a way, that emoji is still communicating something, you know? - Jabril

[@ErinP79]

SEFD Science I am often amazed at how easily the person I'm communicating with can understand what I mean...sometimes it's pretty abstract. But yeah, you need the context to really get it. Interesting video!

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[@Jabrils]

thank you guys! We will keep pushing!-Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

Thanks Connor! I think I was just talking to you on twitter about Wanatabe no? - Jabril

[@Conturnal]

Yeah, that was me! :)

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[@Jabrils]

thank you for your feedback Loxyx! Glad to know that I am helping in some way :D - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

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your videos always keep me engaged. keep up the good work.

[@Jabrils]

thank you man, now we need to work on getting you out of that cage. - Jabril

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great video! ! very well put together and informative! !

[@Jabrils]

thank you Plane Jain for stopping by! :D - Jabril

[@ivantopalov7583]

Hey man, it's impressive how much work gets into one of your videos. I generally really enjoy them. But this one was a very confused video. And I am a philologist.

[@Jabrils]

greeting Ivan, your comment was too short! Do you mind sending me an email? I'd love to find out where I've made mistakes! science AT sefdstuff DOT com - Jabril

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Love your content man!

[@Jabrils]

Thanks a ton waddledee :), I hope that you enjoy whats to come :D - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

ah hey, my girlfriend just sent me the article, glad to have you on board, please let me know what you think about the videos! - Jabril

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

So Emoji are more like punctuation?

[@Jabrils]

that is actually a great way to look it it. Wow. - Jabril

[@MAFIMA]

great video! so much work went into this O_O as others said 1million times, you deserve more subs.

[@Jabrils]

:') thanks for the continued support +MAFIMA, I really take note & really appreciate it. - Jabril

[@innbydelse]

dude! brilliant as always. always used emojis but never thought of their importance.

[@ElchiKing]

while true: be awesome (i.a.W: don't stop being awesome)

[@Jabrils]

thanks bbmin! Remember to always feed your curiosity! - Jabril

[@somebodyelse9219]

Have you ever heard of CICS, it is a programming language that only works in side other languages. My instructor called it a parasitic language. Could emoji's also be called a parasitic language?

[@Jabrils]

that is interesting, ive never heard of CICS, & unfortunately I do not know about linguistics to comment on your latter question. - Jabril

[@hismajestylordsmenkhkare]

The Japanese is in one of the the syllabilalic (I think that's spelt right) systems I am pretty sure the form shown was katakana (as opposed to hiragana) kanji is a very different system to the MS Word demonstration which I am sure was katakana.

[@Jabrils]

wow, you are correct, you learn something new everyday haha. I will make the correction for this soon, thanks for the help! - Jabril

[@borderlinesc]

Love your videos!

[@Jabrils]

thanks Mel, more is on the way :) - Jabril

[@evin290]

Great video, but that Japanese word isn't written in Kanji (Chinese characters), it's written in Katakana (phonetic characters)

[@WildVke]

Great vid !

[@Jabrils]

Thanks Vke! more on the way - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

Hahaha thanks there - Jabril

[@elijahragland8498]

Do you think emojis could eventually become language? Primitive languages were likely vague representations that grew to have distinct, universal meaning, so will emojis eventually have universal and distinct meaning as we use them over time?

[@elijahragland8498]

Lol, asked that way before I saw a hypothetical answer in the vid.

[@elijahragland8498]

So are they more like a kind of advanced punctuation?

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[@chughi]

great video

[@Youcanscienceit]

Answer to secret code below. One small correction...issue...anyway ASCII is pronounced like a word "ask-kie" or "asskie" rather than having each letter said. Also, if you didn't come across Tom Scott when researching Emoji you should look him up. Also, also, I got you email about imagine, currently job hunting in my free time but I haven't forgotten. . pewdiepie sent me LOL 😂

[@Jabrils]

what? no way! The pewds sent you!? Haha yeah Tom Scott has awesome videos on the subject, not sure why I didn't refer to any during research haha; lastly, take your time Jesse, ill be here. - Jabril

[@Lorenzo_631]

very interesting! -Jordan

[@Jabrils]

thanks alot jordan. - Jabril

[@vanobe5853]

Sent by the King Crocoduck as well. Will be chain watching your vids soon.

[@Jabrils]

ah hell yeah! Let me know how that goes! - Jabril

[@Naturenerd1000]

Very interesting. I have changed my opinion about emojis to a certain extent.

[@Jabrils]

"....come to the DARHK SYDE...." - Jabril

[@Ag8MrE]

Communicating and language are not the same thing. :-) One word - grammar. :-( Nice video, great delivery!

[@NivMizzetFiremind]

Wait, what about Yahoo chat and Msn? I was making my own stuff back in 2007 of not longer... hmm, something to think about.

[@Jabrils]

I am not entirely sure the context of this comment, but if you were creating, hats off man, remember to always feed your curiosity! - Jabril

[@jebus6kryst]

12:30 - 🎉❕

[@Jabrils]

haha 12:30 til the end? - Jabril

[@knoqturne6811]

Nice video. I love your editing as usual, and it was interesting to hear about the evolution of emojis and their value in society. Before emoji really started kicking off, I was fascinated by the ideas proposed to distinguish sarcasm in text (my favorite was backwards italics). Also, pissed off emoji you with scissors scares me a little. If Emojis did become a language, how do you think the words would be constructed? Would it be purely based on concepts (eg. happy face + sad face = bittersweet) or would we select certain emojis as letters (eg. happy face + fishing rod + eggplant = Joe)? Thanks for the video, and... U+1F4AD U+278B U+1F354 U+261B U+1F680

[@Jabrils]

"Also, pissed off emoji you with scissors scares me a little." haha if we ever have a conversation, just please don't cut me off [ haha I kid man, it was only a bit ] but as far as how do I think itll be constructed? I dont know, as stated in the video, I don't believe it'll be like your last example simply because "Joe" in english isn't spelled the same in like Japanese for example so that'd be hard to try & make that offically bound to english, not to mention what would be the point if we have english right? I think that first we need a lot more emojis that can convey more ideas, then from there adapt the emoji language as much as possible to interpretive conversation [ i.e. person pointing to themselves = me, i, my, & that is something without language that most people can understand ]. from there the symbols can be simplified so that we can actually write it, then whala. but again, that is only my uneducated imagination. take it with a grain of salt. Remember to always feed your curiosity my friend. - Jabril

[@MOSMASTERING]

If you need emoji to set tone or communicate correctly, you're saying you don't know how to express yourself . There must be people that think in words and emoji now.. Don't rely on emoji to express yourself!

[@Jivvi]

The plural of emoji is emoji.

[@Jabrils]

i just face palmed so hard. its always the small things. haha thanks Jivan. - Jabril

[@SirGarthur]

Passive aggressive interaction with various hypothetical iterations of himself during scene changes, on educational content 😮 Jabrils > 🌎

[@califrankonia]

I thought they were just a new form of bigger, ugly smilies.

[@Uzicide]

So well put: Elegant yet simple. You did an extraordinary job of laying out emojis in a way I've never thought about.l That being said, I'm still never using emojis. Fuck those things.

[@Jabrils]

hey, like, i understood what your comment, but i wasn't sure of your tone, do you mind using an emoji? aha - Jabril

[@Uzicide]

🆗

[@ThisIsKii]

my choice of emoji is still on a keyboard. ;D

[@brickenergy3968]

👍

[@louisng114]

The e in "emoji" is an "eh" sound, like "edit."

[@Jabrils]

interesting, I don't think i've ever heard someone phonically say it like that before. What part of the world are you from out of curiosity? - Jabril

[@louisng114]

SEFD Science I am from Hong Kong and have been in the US for 15 years. I studied Japanese for two years as a foreign language in college. Japanese writing, other than Kanji and occasionally exceptions, is phonetic-based. Each Hiragana and Katakana character has a specific sound regardless of context. Every character in the same column as あ has an "a" sound like "art;" Every character in the same column as い has an "i" sound like "it;" Every character in the same column as う has an "u" sound like "boot;" Every character in the same column as え has an "e" sound like "edit;" Every character in the same column as お has an "o" sound like "on." It is a major pet peeve of mine that people pronounce "karaoke" as "ke-ri-ou-ki" despite the clear lack of "i" in the middle of the word. XD

[@Jabrils]

Hey Louisng, you have my full belief my friend, that is very interesting. However what's more interesting to me is the sheer methodology of phonic adoption, emoji as you say is "eh"-moji, however, I feel if you tell that to most of the population they'd either not believe you or not care & continue to say emoji, does emoji now have 2 official phonic pronunciations? xD - Jabril

[@louisng114]

SEFD Science Haha. I understand what you are saying. In fact, as I overhear students talking about manga during break time (I am a math tutor/teacher), I brought up the correct pronunciation of manga and other Japanese terms (yes, I am "that guy" who says "well, actually..." don't judge please :P. BTW, it still boggles me that know-it-all is an insult in the West). One of the students commented that the actual pronunciation "sounds weeb," despite the fact that they were talking about manga. XD

[@Ducksauce33]

I thought they were called emoticon. meaning icons for emotions.

[@Jabrils]

for emoticons yes you are exactly right, but in japan they didn't call them emoticons, or even emotion icons, they called them face characters [ kaomoji ] & picture characters [ emoji ] I hope this helps. - Jabril

[@Ducksauce33]

Yeah my bad i made that comment before you got to the emoticons history part.

[@HXIM]

well done but i would prefer video to be a little bit shorter

[@DoclightmegamanX]

this is a good comment but I wish it were more substantive

[@HXIM]

i mean compress content into smaller time frame like cut most boring and slow parts away from it

[@DoclightmegamanX]

+HXIM sefd makes content rich videos with decent pacing. pls don't respond with "that's your opinion" because I won't respect you

[@babysoulie]

+Ian Holbrook its just criticism, accept it

[@DoclightmegamanX]

+Daddy Jiyong no, it is not. he just said it was too long and didn't explain any sort of critical data. I'm calling him out for being lazy.

[@ElchiKing]

128517. OK, he sent 128514.

[@Jabrils]

haha, i am a little disappointed that I dont understand this comment. I know its a good pun or so - Jabril

[@ElchiKing]

SEFD Science Transfer from decimal to hexasecimal (or look up the wikipedia unicode table for emoticons)

[@Jabrils]

Elchi King ah of course, why did I not see that? haha - Jabril

[@ErgoCogita]

Digital accessories. Virtual bling. Or, for people who are too lazy to take the time to effectively convey their feeling or meaning using words. >.

[@Jabrils]

haha i am not sure if this is sarcasm or not with the use of ">.

[@ErgoCogita]

SEFD Science Hah! Definitely a tongue in cheek usage of emoticon. Keep up the awesome videos!

[@reddust4352]

why were you in your car? :)

[@Jabrils]

wow, as simplistic as your comment is, youre right, I can't believe i missed that detail. I for sure dropped the ball there. shucks - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

what!? no way :D - Jabril

[@Gab8riel]

Great video, but that's katakana not kanji. Kanji is the chinese ideographic alphabet.

[@Jabrils]

yeah another user pointed this out haha, im ashamed to announce that I've been using it wrong all my life. - Jabril

[@Gab8riel]

SEFD Science It's okay, man. It's not like that ruined the awesome video.

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[@reddust4352]

did he?

[@Jabrils]

no way, that is too hard to believe! - Jabril

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[@choppergamer]

man,it would be interesting to see what puns ancient egyptians makes

[@Jabrils]

welcome Chopper! & thank you! - Jabril

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Pewdiepie sent me

[@Jabrils]

WHAT!? NO WAY! hahaha - Jabril

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unfortunately, it doesnt grow much more past what youve seen, haha it just clumps up & gets nappy hahaha - Jabril

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[@Jabrils]

WTF!? NO WAY! hahaha - Jabril

[@TRASHMONGR]

OH I UNDERSTAND THIS NOW

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[@Jabrils]

thank you Vanessa, ill check it out! - Jabril

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[@osemudiame123]

you have such good quality of work yet you do not get many views. still you continue to consistently put out work. I respect that greatly and hope you keep doing what you do.