The proposal notes that emoji can technically already be rendered in two palettes: in color ("emoji representation") or in black and white ("text presentation"), depending on what the environment ...

Emoji are the language of our online era, the thumbs-up to a question, the wink to our wit, the peach to our eggplant. They're a splash of color in black and white communication, conveying things ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.