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a mosaic where a thousand tiny faces say what words gave up on.

originemoji means picture-character in Japanese, not emotion
first set176 emoji designed in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita
unicodeover 3,700 official emoji exist today
art statusthe original 176 live in MoMA's collection
most usedthe laughing-crying face won the decade
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