From the New York Times:
But American adults are not the first grown-ups with a tin ear for emoji. “In Japan, there was a similar, interesting moment when you started to see older folks and men start using these kind of cute aspects – these emoji – that originally came from middle-school girl, mobile-phone culture,” said Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, who studies how young people use digital media in Asia and the United States. “Now, as emoji are seeing more adoption in the U.S., you’re seeing a form of communication being used that was clearly developed and marketed to a different demographic.”

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