Louie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31

Made some cute little puffy emoji. They looked very chewy to me, so I called them Emochi.

šŸ”— https://lmnt.me/intro/portfolio/emochi.html

Emochi

Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.
Does anyone even use iMessage stickers? I always make stuff like this for LINE, but I kinda gave up on iMessage stickers because the experience of using them + the financial turnout is disappointing.
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Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
If itā€™s not clear, the context of this is *directly* related to what I replied to, which is emoji I made. Iā€™m not asking about if you use Memoji or photo-cutouts as stickers within iMessage. Iā€™m asking if you use iMessage sticker apps.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31

LINE sucks as an app, but their emoji/sticker (stamp) feature is very well implemented.

Like standard Apple emoji in iMessage, whenever you type a keyword or phrase that corresponds to a LINE emoji/sticker, it appears as a suggestion as you type.

To me, the thing that kills iMessage sticker apps as an entire genre is the lack of this implementation. It doesnā€™t seem difficult to implement, but Apple has never done what actual users would find useful.

Show threadPhilippDec 31
@louie Apple does seem to have implemented at least some of that. At least this custom Pizza sticker I made appears as a suggestion when I type ā€œpizzaā€ in iMessage.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
@pb I assume thatā€™s the ā€œAIā€ emoji (yuck), for which they know the keywords for?
Show threadPhilippDec 31
@louie Yuck indeed. No, this is from a photo I took of a pizza I made myself. I never got a chance to tell iOS that itā€™s a pizza, so theyā€™re clearly doing image recognition to generate keywords.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
@pb ah interesting. huh.
Show threadStefan DomanskeDec 31
@louie Yep, I use them irregularly and have installed a bunch of sticker apps.
Show threadGeorge PĆ©rez MarreroDec 31
@louie Yes with my friends and family. We typically ā€œimportā€ stickers from other apps like WhatsApp (am from LATAM) though or create cutouts of photos of ourselves.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
@georgeperez so not really iMessage stickers as found from the App Store then.
Show threadGeorge PĆ©rez MarreroDec 31
@louie Unfortunately not, mostly created with the sticker tool inside Messages.
Show threadAlex | ć‚¢ćƒ¬ćƒƒć‚Æć‚¹Dec 31

@louie I make my own dumb ones but never use the included or download ones

But weirdly enough on LINE I use them all the time and buy packs

Show threadNathan KnowlerDec 31
@louie Nope, I didnā€™t even realize there were dedicated sticker apps. I might look into finding some good ones now that I know though. I do like using the photo cutout ones that I have (esp. when messaging my kid), so I imagine some fun + high quality ones would be fun to use as well.
Show threadGeorgeDec 31
@louie have a few packs, at a guess has used them once each and have never had anyone use them in a chat.
In concept I love them but usability sucks imo compared to Tapback emoji/reactions so I just use them
Show threadPhilip Mallegol-HansenDec 31
@louie My wife drew some and I uploaded them to the App Store just so she could have them. But itā€™s not exactly a booming business šŸ˜‚ I think a couple of her family members bought them just to show their support. Maybe 10 sales total over 5 years.
Show threadDavid HepworthDec 31
@louie I have so many of them, both free and paid. Iā€™ve been a fan and collector for years. Recent iOS versions have made them even better because I can use them in new ways.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
@dhpersonal in your perspective, how did recent iOS versions make using them better?
Show threadDavid HepworthDec 31
@louie - I can attach stickers to messages similar to Tapback emoji
- I can place stickers anywhere on the screen of a conversation, not just in messages
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Dec 31
@dhpersonal I gotta be honest, I did not know you could do either of these things now. I mean, thatā€™s great!
Show threadSimDec 31
@louie I got a pack of the weirdly pedantic grammatical correction stickers mostly to annoy my kids
Show threadTyler EppersonDec 31
@louie nope. All the iMessage stickers I have are from apps just deciding to support it. Every once in a while I go through and disable them individually.
Show threadAndrew WhiteDec 31
@louie Iā€™ve bought and used a few, but mostly use the ones Iā€™ve made of my dog or kid.
Show threadMomomotoJan 1
@louie I have an extremely limited number of (official?) PokĆ©mon-based ones that I trot out from time to time, but weā€™re talking like once every three months, tops.