About a month ago, we ran a post pointing out a mysterious new “eye in speech bubble” emoji.
Now we know.
From Wired:
What was still unclear at the time was what purpose the new emoji served. Shortly after it appeared, a designer named Erik Veland used the text-to-speech feature to discover that the emoji is described aloud as “eye in speech bubble representing anti-bullying campaign.” Mystery solved! Except … why did Apple put an anti-bullying emoji in its unreleased iOS update? How did Apple foresee people using it? And what campaign was it representing, exactly?
Interesting. Will this bring in a wave of new cause-sponsored emoji?
I was thinking the all-seeing eye, or “Eye of Providence”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence
“I am a witness”:
http://digiday.com/brands/adobe-gsp-ad-council-introduce-eye-emoji-new-anti-bullying-campaign/
A new category. The list of irrational woes. Ghosts are ranked way ahead of zombies! How ludicrous is that?
If your emoji needs to be explained, it’s more of a brand.