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| 2024 |
Emoji
Unicode Technical Committee resolved to allocate new code points for emoji characters instead of creating new presentation sequences, acknowledging their previous approach of unifying colorful emoji characters with textual symbols and dingbats as a 'mistake'.
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| February 2024 | Usenet daily posting volume reached a new peak of 274.49 TiB with 400.24 million daily posts. |
| November 8 2023 | Omegle permanently shut down after 14 years of operation, following legal challenges and growing concerns about user safety and potential misuse of the platform. |
| August 2023 | Usenet daily posting volume dramatically rose to 220.00 TiB with 279.16 million daily posts. |
| 2022 |
Emoji
The Unicode Consortium decided to stop accepting proposals for new flag emoji, citing low use and potential exclusivity concerns.
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| 2022 | Omegle updated its rules to restrict platform access to users 18 years and older. |
| 2022 | The Canadian teacher who was arrested in 2020 pleaded guilty to several criminal charges related to child pornography on Omegle. |
| 2021 |
Emoji
Microsoft removed Ninja Cat and its variants during the Fluent emoji redesign.
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| 2021 | An Australian man was arrested for allegedly using Omegle to search for child sex. |
| September 3 2021 |
Emoji
Drake released his sixth studio album Certified Lover Boy, with album cover art featuring twelve emoji of pregnant women in varying clothing colors, hair colors, and skin tones.
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| January 2021 | Usenet daily posting volume significantly increased to 100.71 TiB with 171.86 million daily posts. |
| 2020 | The Anti-Defamation League began an investigation into antisemitism and far-right trolling on Omegle. |
| 2020 | A Canadian teacher was arrested for broadcasting child pornography on Omegle. |
| 2020 | Two teenagers used keywords 'BLM', 'KKK', and 'racist' to match with users on Omegle, documenting racist harassment towards ethnic minorities and women. |
| 2020 | Tor Brookes (CatboyKami) attended a 'Stop the Steal' rally in Phoenix, Arizona and began popularizing Omegle in far-right circles, spreading racist content and conspiracy theories. |
| 2020 | TikTok user Johan Bradley posted a video revealing Shoreham-Wading River High School students using racist language and making offensive noises towards him, leading to disciplinary action by the school district. |
| January 2020 | Usenet daily posting volume grew to 62.40 TiB with 107.49 million daily posts. |
| 2019 | A lawsuit was filed by a teenage victim of child sex exploitation on the platform, alleging Omegle knowingly allowed dangerous interactions between minors and predators. |
| March 5 2019 |
Emoji
A drop of blood emoji was released to help break the stigma of menstruation and describe blood-related medical topics.
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| January 2019 | Usenet daily posting volume increased to 60.38 TiB with 104.04 million daily posts. |
| 2018 |
Emoji
A mosquito emoji was added to raise awareness for insect-borne diseases like dengue and malaria.
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| May 2018 |
Emoji
The next version of UTS #51 skipped to version 11.0 to synchronize its major version number with the corresponding Unicode Standard version.
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| January 2018 | Usenet daily posting volume recorded at 37.35 TiB with 73.95 million daily posts. |
| 2017 |
Emoji
MIT Media Lab published DeepMoji, a deep neural network sentiment analysis algorithm trained on 1.2 billion emoji occurrences from Twitter.
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| December 2017 |
Emoji
A lawyer in Delhi, India threatened to file a lawsuit against WhatsApp for allowing the use of the middle finger emoji.
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| July 28 2017 |
Emoji
Sony Pictures Animation released The Emoji Movie, an animated film featuring voices of Patrick Stewart, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Anna Faris, and T. J. Miller, which was universally panned as one of the worst animated films.
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| May 2017 |
Emoji
UTR #51 was redesignated as a Unicode Technical Standard (UTS #51) with the release of version 5.0 alongside Unicode 10.0.
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| April 2017 |
Emoji
A Doctor Who episode titled 'Smile' featured nanobots called Vardy that communicate through emoji-using robotic avatars.
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| March 2017 |
Emoji
The first episode of the fifth season of Samurai Jack featured alien characters who communicate in emoji.
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| January 2017 |
Emoji
Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted the first large-scale study of emoji usage, analyzing over 1.2 billion messages from the Kika Emoji Keyboard.
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| 2016 |
Emoji
Microsoft released a series of Ninja Cat emoji for their Windows 10 Anniversary Update, using zero-width joiner (ZWJ) sequences to create unique emoji characters.
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| November 2016 |
Emoji
The first emoji-themed convention, Emojicon, was held in San Francisco.
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| October 2016 |
Emoji
The Museum of Modern Art acquired the original collection of emoji distributed by NTT DoCoMo in 1999.
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| August 2 2016 |
Emoji
Microsoft updated Windows 10 to change its pistol emoji from a toy raygun to a real revolver.
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| August 1 2016 |
Emoji
Apple announced that in iOS 10, the pistol emoji would be changed from a realistic revolver to a water pistol.
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| May 2016 |
Emoji
The musical Emojiland premiered at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.
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| 2015 |
Emoji
Selected songs from the musical Emojiland were first presented at Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles.
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| 2015 |
Emoji
Oxford Dictionaries named 'emoji' its Word of the Year, recognizing its impact on popular culture and communication.
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| December 2015 |
Emoji
A sentiment analysis of emoji was published, resulting in the Emoji Sentiment Ranking 1.0.
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| July 6 2015 |
Xfire
Xfire site was completely shut down and all service contents were deleted.
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| June 2015 |
Emoji
Unicode 8.0 was released, adding 41 new emoji including sports equipment, food items, facial expressions, and Zodiac symbols.
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| June 2015 |
Emoji
The first approved version of the Unicode Emoji report ('Emoji 1.0') was published as Unicode Technical Report #51, introducing skin tone indicators and official recommendations for emoji characters.
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| June 10 2015 |
Xfire
Announced shutdown of social services, to be closed on June 12 with only 2 days' notice.
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| April 2015 |
Emoji
Instagram disabled the ability to search for #EggplantFridays and other eggplant-related hashtags due to the trend's popularity.
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| January 2015 |
Emoji
Discussion within the emoji ad-hoc committee about using zero-width joiner to indicate emoji sequences could be shown as a single equivalent glyph.
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| 2014 |
Emoji
The Library of Congress acquired an emoji version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, created by Fred Benenson.
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| December 2014 |
Emoji
The #EggplantFridays hashtag began rising in popularity on Instagram, used for marking photos featuring penises.
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| December 2014 |
Emoji
The Unicode Technical Committee created a Public Review Issue seeking feedback on a proposed Unicode Technical Report titled 'Unicode Emoji', aimed at improving emoji interoperability and defining support for multiple skin tones.
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| April 10 2012 |
Xfire
Hired Malcom CasSelle as CEO and announced a joint venture with a Chinese Communist Youth League-affiliated company to expand in mainland China.
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