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=== Artificial intelligence === === Artificial intelligence ===
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== References == == References ==

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Development

The sparkles emoji was first used by Japanese mobile operators SoftBank, Docomo and au in the late 1990s. The emoji was added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Usage

Communication

The sparkles emoji was originally supposed to represent the usage of sparkles in Japanese anime and manga, where the sparkles are used to represent beauty, happiness or awe.

In September 2021 the Sparkles emoji overtook the Pleading Face (🥺) emoji to become the third most used emoji in the world according to Emojipedia, with approximately 1 per cent of all tweets containing the Sparkles emoji.

Artificial intelligence

In the early 2020s the sparkles emoji started being used as an icon to represent artificial intelligence (AI). Companies who use the emoji this way include Google, OpenAI, Spotify and Zoom.

References

  1. "Has Artificial Intelligence Co-opted the Sparkle Emoji?". Bloomberg News. 10 July 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  2. "How the Sparkles Emoji Became the Symbol of Our AI Future". Wall Street Journal. 17 August 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  3. "The Proliferation and Problem of the ✨ Sparkles ✨ Icon". Nielsen Norman Group. 20 September 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  4. "Why the sparkle emoji became the symbol of AI". The Globe and Mail. 28 December 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  5. "I Need Tech Companies to Stop Using the Sparkles Emoji for AI". CNET. 10 July 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  6. "How the sparkles emoji took over AI". Fast Company. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Sparkles". Emojipedia. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  8. McCulloch, Gretchen (2019). Because Internet. Riverhead Books. pp. 137–139.
  9. ^ "It's Not Just You. The Sparkles Emoji is ✨Everywhere✨". Emojipedia. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  10. "How ✨ became the unofficial AI emoji". Quartz. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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