https://thenextweb.com/tnw-answers/2020/06/16/4-eye-opening-facts-about-emoji-explained-by-an-emoji-historian/ > TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour.  > Emoji blew up in 2012 and was fully embraced when Apple released iOS6 with its extended emoji keyboard. Since then, emoji have come a long way, and thanks to their skyrocketing popularity they are on every major social media platform out there.