Abusing Emoji in Windows
Most computer systems today (e.g. Windows, OSX, Android, iOS) use a thing called Unicode to represent text. Since computers work in binary, there needs to be a way to take a string of binary and convert it to letters and numbers to display on the screen. Unicode is one way to do that, and any system that uses Unicode knows that 01000001 is the capital letter A.
A few years ago some people were trying to send messages to each other and one of them was like (keep in mind I'm totally guessing here, but I'm 99% sure this is exactly how it happened)
and so they made a whole unicode character set just for emoji. And now anytime you're on Tinder and talking to a chick you can just send over the character U+1F4AA which is
and she'll clearly be all over you because not only do you have ripped biceps but you also know how to make proper use of emoji and that's a major turn on.
Since all of these emoji are part of the Unicode standard it means that emoji is essentially text, and it can be typed into anywhere normal text can be typed into, which means we can now put them in lots of funny places.
