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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

someone wanted change for change's sake?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was when they got rid of the "blob emoji" in favor of adopting the more standard round smiley faces in order to match Apple specifically. The reasoning was along the lines of wanting emoji to convey the same thing across platforms, which makes sense to an extent but I'm not sure why they felt a complete overhaul of the artstyle was necessary to achieve that goal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right, the blob emojis. I had forgotten about those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Love my little blobby bois