[Planktonne]

This article represents such a poverty of imagination and culture that I find it genuinely concerning. What is wrong with the people behind this?

They've correctly identified that a lot of emoji use is figurative, but then are trying to contribute to that by making them 3D. Here is a symbol you use meaningfully, we made it different to help.

It's just so wrong-headed, like responding to the news of someone's beloved cat dying by saying they should just get another. A total failure of understanding the thing they are pontificating about.

[KetoManx64]

Classic case of "The company is paying me and I don't have any real work to do so let's create some so I don't actually have to do anything actually useful"