🧵⬆️ The clown, like the cowboy, was likely inspired by an existing text emoticon (•́⍜•̀) but both were pretty uncommon in my experience of the pre-2016 internet. Also, the only plain text string I can find or think of pre-dating the lying pinocchio face 🤥 is, like, full-page ASCII art. 🧵⬇️

🧵⬆️ The way emojis end up becoming standard is through submission process. How does the submission process work? idk. I just started thinking the cowboy emoji while avoiding other labor today but it looks like here's where we can find out. www.emojination.org 🧵⬇️

Emojination

Emoji By The People, For the People.