I own a few content websites that make money with adsense what is what i am living from right now. I am mostly working on more of those. One that recently frontpaged here is https://ascii.li

Impressive. Out of curiosity, how did you come up with so many Unicode emoticons? crowd-sourced?

I wish, thats usually the issue with any of my sites. Classic chicken egg problem. I've got submitted 4 emojis in over a year now. I data mined them actually from github gists and blog posts and added a few which i thought were missing. Then i paid my little sister to do the tagging :)