"Okay, it is Monday, November 7th, 2016, and today is the day that I am presenting to the Unicode technical committee." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #MarkBramhill

"It was a proposal for a brand new emoji!" - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #WorldEmojiDay #MarkBramhill

"It is Monday, November 7th, 2016!" - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #MarkBramhill

"And she actually successfully made a fortune cookie emoji as well." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #NationalFortuneCookieDay #MarkBramhill

"Emojis are here to stay!" - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #WorldEmojiDay #MarkBramhill

"Remember most of what Unicode does has nothing to do with emoji, and mostly to do with encoding language on the internet." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #NationalInternetDay #MarkBramhill

"So they looked at all the different emoji that had been created by the Japanese carriers and sorted through them to establish an initial core library." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #WorldEmojiDay #MarkBramhill

"For all the emojis that weren't just disembodied faces, the team had to deeply consider all the clothing and accessories that they were wearing, because they're designing for a global audience." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #MarkBramhill

"And so, I found some clip art on the internet to illustrate what the emoji might look like." - MARK BRAMHILL, Person in Lotus Position, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PersoninLotusPosition #WorldEmojiDay #MarkBramhill