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You'll Never Use Emojis Again After You See Where They Come From

Why?

​Happy Friday. Do you know where emojis come from? It may have seemed like they just showed up on your phone one day, but if Los Angeles artist Albert Omoss is to be believed, they were actually birthed by a disembodied womb.

See for yourself:

Ross, our platform manager, who has no sense of decency, shared it with us in our staff chatroom after ​spotting a tweet by Digg's Joe Tonelli. Here's how that went.

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We have reached out to Omoss to request an interview, which will consist of one question: "Why?"

Have a good weekend!