[RandallBrown]

I dunno, the SoftBank emoji from 25 years ago is pretty much the same face as Apple's is now.

https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2000/loudly-crying-face

[doublerabbit]

"The SoftBank emoji designs heavily influenced Apple's original emoji font which was designed to be compatible with this set when launching in Japan, due to iPhone being a SoftBank-exclusive phone when first released."

Would be why.