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I recently discovered that I’ve been sending *wildly* different emojis to my Android friends.

I thought I was texting, HAY LET’S GO OUT :and danse:…

…when it was really more like HAY LET’S GO OUT :can I court you: (on Android) or even more terrifyingly, HAY LET’S GO OUT :I’m a preteen: (on Samsung).

A new paper has shown that people interpret an emoji’s meaning in a variety of ways, in part because emojis look so different across platforms.

The paper, which will be published by AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media in May, revealed that users saw the Google version of the emoji as “‘blissfully happy’ while the exact same Unicode character, but rendered for Apple, was described as ‘ready to fight.’”

And that ambiguity leads to confusing cross-platform conversations like this… [x]

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