At the first-ever Emojicon, smiling poop was everywhere

SAN FRANCISCO — Emoji are having a moment.

The yellow smileys and prayer hands and grinning poop symbols may have worked their way into popular culture years ago, but the glyphs seem to have reached a new level of fandom and it was out in full force at Emojicon, a two-day conference dedicated entirely to all things emoji.

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The San Francisco event, organized by a group called Emojination, is the first of its kind. Part silly fan event, part serious nerdery, Emojicon brought together people and organizations involved with all aspects of emoji from internet linguists to designers to members of the Unicode Consortium, the organization that oversees "official" emoji creation. Read more...

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