- Here comes the sun? Oh! But the poop emoji threw me off.
- All right. That's obviously ice, ice, baby.
- Yes. (clapping) I applaud this.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, Apple recently announced that there are nearly 400 new emojis
that have been released for the newest phone update.
- Okay. That's too many emo-- how many more emojis can they make?
- I saw some of them already being memed, which is, like,
the greatest thing in the world. - (FBE) So, for those that don't know,
emojis are graphic symbols and smilies that are commonly
used in text messages... - Okay.
- (FBE) ...and are used to help communicate online.
- I see them on Facebook. They're funny faces.
I don't know the purpose. - (FBE) So next up, we are going
to show you some of these new emojis and see what you think.
- Okay. Man, the most frustrating thing for me
is when I'll send this detailed text message to my wife,
and she'll just send a thumbs up. I'm like, "That's it?! That's all?!"
- A lot of new animals. Skunks. Dogs.
- I'm down for the sloth. That's already my favorite.
- Look at the little otter. Ahh, I love otter so much!
They're so cute. - This is so cute!
They even have-- Oh, I love this. Service dogs.
Oh, nice. - They have people with a wheelchair.
They have prosthetic arms and the prosthetic legs, hearing aids.
I'm pretty sure that's the deaf emoji.
- That's someone in wheelchair or someone blind. I mean,
I hope they're not using it as humorous responses
for someone who's handicapped or, you know, challenged in some way.
- Oh, these are definitely-- this is good.
This is about disabled citizens. It's important.
People are people. They have challenges. No big deal.
- A blood drop? Nice. I like that. Ooh, I love the axe.
Shining. I love that. I love it. I love it.
We needed that for Halloween. - WAFFLE! Finally!
Okay, I was literally-- I had chicken and waffles
the other day, and I was putting it on my Instagram story,
and I was like, "There's no waffle emoji!"
- A lot of new foods, some falafel. Do love falafel.
- I like the stethoscope. They finally made one for doctors.
You know what I mean? Instead of the cheesy
little doctor dude that, you know-- no. The stethoscope.
That's pretty cool. - The guy with the parachute.
I mean, coming in for a la-- when would you use that?
- Is that a skydiving emoji? Yeah. I mean, I wanna go skydiving.
I could send an emoji to my friend and be like-- just send that
and like, "Okay, so you wanna go skydiving. Cool."
- (FBE) So, as you just saw, many of the added emojis
included new foods, animals, and also prosthetic limbs
and other disability-related emojis. But another talked about addition
is Apple's gender neutral option for nearly human emoji.
- Hmm. - I saw it on Twitter,
and I saw a couple of the people, and I was like, "Whoa."
I could see it as a female or a male. - (FBE) So, this is to include those
who don't conform to either a male or a female gender.
So, here are some of those to show you.
- That's really good. - Yes. (clapping) I applaud this.
I applaud this a lot. - I think it's really nice.
I know someone who's gender neutral, and I think it's really good
that you're including them in this kind of stuff
and new technology. - Someone's gonna be outraged.
It always happen. You know what I mean?
But here's the thing: If it's not for you, don't use it.
- It's all kind of bizarre to someone my age at this point.
But it's-- you know, whatever. If it gives someone something
they can identify with and relate to what they're feeling as a person,
then great! - To each his own. I'm not sure...
Maybe the message is
"Accept me as I am. I'm just a person."
- I'll set it like this emoji, and it's a female.
But someone who doesn't say they're female or male,
they might not feel comfortable to use either one.
But now that they have this option, then they're like, "Oh, wow.
This actually makes me feel happy, and I can actually use an emoji."
- (FBE) So, now that you have seen a few of these additions,
we're gonna play a little game that will test your emoji knowledge.
- Oh cool. What? How? - (FBE) So, we're gonna be showing you
some popular song lyrics. And those will be turned
into emojis, and you're gonna have to see if you can correctly
decipher what the song is. - Oh, dear. Okay.
- What?
This is harder than I thought it was gonna be.
- Uh, something comes sun, poop, poop, poop, poop, poop.
- Here comes sun poop? Sun...
- Here comes the sun. Oh! But the poop emoji
threw me off, but it was like ♪ Da, da, da, da ♪
- ♪ Here comes the sun ♪ ♪ Da, da, da, da ♪
♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo ♪ From the Beatles. I love that song.
- It's like, ♪ Here comes the sun ♪ ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
Yup. That's clever. - What? I have no idea.
I wanna just say [bleep], [bleep], [bleep], [bleep].
- (FBE) Here is the answer. - (chuckles)
♪ Here comes the sun ♪ ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
Ah, man. Bro! Ah. - Oh my gosh. Yeah.
I didn't even-- yeah. To see it in emoji--
I was even thinking, "What song has poop in it?"
- Oh, wow. All right. All right. Let's see if I do better
on the next one. - Ice, ice, angel.
Ice cream, ice, ice, angel. - Oh. Oh!
Wait. Oh! ♪ Ice, ice, baby ♪
♪ Doo, doo-doo, doo, doo-doo, doo, doo ♪
(laughs) - Ice, ice, baby?
- All right. That's obviously "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla...
Vanilla, um... he's like the most iconic white person
in history. What's his name? Shoot. Vanilla-- oh, man!
Is it Vanilla Ice?? It probably is Vanilla--
yeah, it's Vanilla Ice. "Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice.
- (FBE) This one is... - Ice, ice, baby.
"Ice Ice"-- oh, okay! Oh, I never heard of it.
- Yay! (clapping) I did so good at that one.
That one was really easy. - I, DNA, write, spiral? (giggles)
- I, DNA, write, squiggle,
holding up hand, 100, dog.
- Write paper. I got paper. I, DNA-- I, DNA, paper.
- Something about traveling. You saw something.
You're writing maybe a goodbye song.
- OHH! (laughs)
♪ I just took a DNA test ♪ ♪ Turns out I'm 100% that [bleep] ♪
♪ Even when I'm crying ♪ Okay.
- ♪ I just took a DNA test ♪ ♪ Turns out I'm 100% that [bleep] ♪
(laughs) - What the hell? I have no idea.
- I'm probably gonna know it once you tell me.
And I don't know right now. - (FBE) So, here are
the actual lyrics. - "I just took a DNA test.
Turns out I'm 100%"-- ohhh! I just heard this the other day
for the first time. - Yeah, that one, never heard of it.
Would've never got that one. - Oh my god! No, it's not.
"I just took a DNA test. I'm 100% that [bleep]."
Ugh! This is so-- I can't! (laughs) - I got one. And all you need
is one point. From there, you can build your lead,
so I'm happy with my one point. - (FBE) So, reports have
shown that there are now over 3,000 emojis available
for us to use. And if we compare that to 2010,
there are only 625 emojis. - Wow! That's insane.
- (FBE) We're curious since today we have all the generations in,
do you use emojis at all? - I use emojis a lot.
I use it in text messages to get my point across,
so people can understand what I'm actually trying to say.
- When I'm on Facebook, I'll write somebody a little note
and they respond as happy face, sad face, tears, you know.
- I mainly only use the laughing emoji and the shrug emoji
and the facepalm emoji, because my friends,
they make me facepalm. - It's kind of hard to get
things across when you're typing it out,
so you have to use emojis. I literally knew a person
that broke up with their girlfriend by just sending the cowboy emoji.
I'm not-- like, they girl wrote a whole paragraph,
and then he was like, cowboy emoji. And I was like... (chuckles)
- (FBE) So recently, it was announced that the peach and the eggplant emojis
are being banned across social media networks
like Facebook and Instagram. So... - Oh.
- (FBE) ...why do you think they would wanna ban fruit emojis?
- (sighs) Censorship, man. Like, come on. Some emojis
have taken on different meanings. A lot of the adults are starting
to catch up, and they're starting to kind of realize that it's not
just a peach anymore or it's not just an eggplant.
- There might be a sexual connotation I'm thinking, the way the peach looks
and the curvature. And then the eggplant looking,
you know, like a male's organ. Sorry! - People are just so worried.
They waste so much time worrying about stuff that's unimportant!
- People are just gonna find something else. They always do!
- Since there's more emojis took, people are gonna find stuff,
other things other than a peach and an eggplant. Come on.
- (FBE) So, there's a company called Unicode Consortium,
which is a non-profit organization. And it's responsible for designing
these new emojis. So, if you could talk to the researchers
and help design a new emoji, what emoji do you think
that they should create for something that currently doesn't exist?
- Hmm. I'm not totally sure if this exists or not,
but from what I've seen so far, I haven't seen a meatball emoji.
- I would need someone that's skrrt-skrrting on the freeway,
like going really fast, 'cause that's usually what my life
consists of when I'm late to everything.
- A walker with tennis balls on the legs just to indicate
that I feel old. That would be hilarious.
- Clams. But they have oyster on there, so that's close enough.
Now, I guess everything that I need is on there.
- (FBE) So, Oxford Dictionary actually named the face
with the tears of joy-- it's like a laughing/crying emoji.
- Yes, I've seen that. - (FBE) They named that in 2015
the word of the year.
- Do tell. - (FBE) And there's been reports
showing that the Emojipedia website, which catalogs all the emojis,
is viewed over 30 million times per month.
- What?! Oh my gosh.
- (FBE) Do you think that some emotions are easier to convey
with emojis, or do you think they're easier to convey with words?
- I think some-- well, I think most emotions are easier to convey
with emojis, because those are the general emotions.
- I feel like sometimes-- a lot of the times,
emojis get kind of used the wrong way, so we kind of lose the sight
of what it actually means. - I look at the message.
I look at the words. And the emojis-- that's an afterthought.
But a younger generation, I'm quite sure they would look
at the emojis first and then read the message.
It's a generational thing. - (FBE) So finally, what kind of emoji
do you think is most used by your generation?
- For sure the peach... and the eggplant. (chuckles)
- I wanna say the crying laughing emoji,
'cause everyone's always laughing. - The smile. The smile.
Most seniors look on the brighter side of things,
'cause we have so few years left in our life,
so we don't wanna get pent up and looking at negative things.
- Probably the poop emoji. A lot of friends of mine
just do the poop emoji a million times for no good reason,
because... comedy. (emojis popping)
Yeah, comedy gold.
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