From Smithsonian:
For people growing up on Snapchat, Instagram, GIFs, and the image-heavy pages of Facebook, emoji are the perfect “boundary form,” as University of California, Irvine cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito describes it, engaging both language and image. It helps that for older readers – i.e., parents – they can be completely indecipherable.

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