ive noticed a subtle decline in people using emojis in the last year or two. like, its very subtle, probably at or under the statistical noise floor, but i think they're on the way out culturally. in one-to-one communication they come across as "facebook aunt" these days, and in one-to-many media, the vibe they communicate is often just "AI smell"
@jk If I didn't have five million better things to do, it would be really interesting to take the firehose of some of the social networks and start running statistics on emoji use...