My encounter with the innocuous swimming-themed emoji occurred in the aftermath of a more portentous emoji culture war. Although emoji are standardized by an organization called the Unicode ...

Emoji ought to be as broadly expressive as possible. Guns—and swimming, and much more—would be most fruitfully emojified in the most generic, abstract way possible.

Emoji are finally becoming more diverse. Here’s why. Same-sex and interracial couples, wheelchairs and a controversial plate of falafel are just some of the emoji iPhone and Android users can ...

Attention technology lovers: you can finally enjoy your favorite emoji while swimming. Emoji pool floats have arrived to fill the hole in our hearts that appears whenever we have to put down our ...

"It's to keep the hair in place while we swim and it's purely for aesthetic reasons," she wrote over the clip. "It's sticky and dries hard," Ramirez added.

So when Android O lands, Google will adopt an emoji aesthetic that is more recognizable and more similar to how others are doing it.

While squid eyes are set on the sides of their head (not ideal for the emoji aesthetic), the aquarium points out that the siphon should be behind the head.