I wonder if future archeologists will endlessly ponder the meaning of emoji similar to the way we in the current age try to understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. perhaps a new age Rosetta stone should be carved

Future archeologists are in luck, this already exists: http://www.emojidick.com/

That's the Unicode specification, isn't it? (Though I suppose that doesn't get the in-prose meanings.)

Why though? All the emoji that people actually care about depicts faces or objects with obvious body-part analogues

ancient hieroglyphics also depict common objects and expressions. their combinations carry even more meaning. the understanding of an eggplant, a thumbs up, or even a smile could be drastically different in 5000 years

No because we have a recorded archive of this stuff. Ie: Wikipedia.

How does that affect the quality of the article in any way? It's not like they're expressing through emoji, they're just there as bullet points I get that emoji get a lot of hate on reddit since emoji only comments were low effort and that's justified No emoji at all in any form, that's just a stupid ask

It's annoying because it interrupts the flow of reading the text. Let me read an emojii article out loud:

Today I went to RIGHT ARROW the supermarket GROCERY BAG to get some groceries VEGETABLE and I saw EYE my friend WAVING HAND.

How can you read an article filled with emojis without being interrupted in the reading flow?

Practically, you can get browser extensions that remove the emojis. The fact that brightly colored symbol blocks interrupt flow will not change as the culture changes because saturation = attention, contrast = attention and uniqueness = attention are all fundamental principles of perception.

In the same way if there were using a purple script font. It's just unnecessary decoration and I'll gladly pass even though the content is good (usually it's not).

That article does use purple text

The blog posting looks like it went through a PowerPoint to blog converter.

If there isn't already such an app, it sounds like it would solve a big problem and make $$$...

Scribd has something like that, but it just renders the PowerPoint into a PDF and lets you scroll through that. Looks awful. Something that really did translate a slide show into a blog post in a semi-intelligent manner would have value.

Agreed. This trendy new use of emojis everywhere, even in somewhat serious articles is quite off putting. It just seems juvenile and doenst add any substance or information to the content.

How old are you? No snark here, I am legitimately curious

I'm way old, and I didn't mind the emojis, and I'm not a big user--I write words more often than use an equivalent emoji in Slack. OTOH, I 'read' :+1: (the actual sequence of chars) as 'like' and it isn't disruptive either.

in this article, they are functionally equivalent to bullet points for the headings and sub headings.

but ok.