I love this story. In a nutshell, Mark Bramhill, host of the wonderful podcast “Welcome to Macintosh,” imagined a “person meditating” emoji, then set about figuring out how to get that emoji through the approval process.
How one person dreamed up an emoji, and got it onto your iPhone
Very good animation.
99% Invisible did an episode following someone on their hunt to get a “Person in Lotus Position” emoji added. Granted, it lacks the animation, but you can listen to it in the car. =)
as far as I could tell, this was just a repackaging of the 4 episode mini series Mark did for season 3 of Welcome to Macintosh…compressing two hours of podcast to 7 minutes and animating it. Not to detract from the fabulous animation, and hopefully Mark got something out of it too! But if you like this, I highly recommend the original podcast (https://www.macintosh.fm)