♲ @ibogost@twitter.com: Hi 👋. I wrote about how emoji are transforming as their ranks swell. They're becoming less ideogrammatic and more illustrative. That's helping make them more equitable, which is good, but it also changes the way they work—as pictures more than as signs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/how-new-emoji-are-changing-pictorial-language/582400/