According to emojibase.dev, which is a website providing a collection of emojis and more, “Shortcodes are short and succinct words, surrounded by colons, representing emoji, such as (:cat:).

Cat face, winking smiley, avocado, lady doing the fandango - we all have a favourite emoji! But who actually decides what emojis we get to use? Jennifer 8. Lee is a member of the Unicode Consortium.

The upside-down smiley face emoji was released in Apple emojis in 2015. However, Google released their own version in 2008 and it has been around ever since. Most read in Tech ...

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