once a cool thing for texting, but is now utterly annoying due to the admiration of 5-10 year old kids. they all ruined them and are now being turned into a fucking movie.

Emoji (from Japanese 絵文字, read えもじ) (pl. emoji) are the tiny pictures you can put on your texts.

The word dates back to the early Japanese mobile phones. With the iPhone's plethora of icons, the word "emoji" became widespread, as it was what the keyboard was named.

It is made of two components, 絵 and 文字, meaning "picture" and "letter" respectively.
Therefore, any claims that tie the word to "emoticon" are etymologically WRONG.

Many teenage girls put way too many emoji in their texts, resulting in more icons than text. Some clever people manage to draw pictures using emoji, or play Connect Four, Tic-Tac-Toe, or even Chess using emoji.

1. Things that managed to get on adolescent girls' beds, clothing, etc.
2. The premise of a most-likely shit movie coming in 2017.
3. A new language that will take over the world.
4. Unreadable squares for people without iPhones or Samsungs.
5. Wild animals commonly sighted on social media sites and messaging chats.

A very well know language that is overused by youtubers to make a form of clickbait. The emojis also have an amazing movie based around them

A tiny picture that's used in texting, or emails.

Are a icon in text message

Apparently a synonym for emoticon, emoji includes the prefix emo- from emotion and emoticon and the suffix -ji, which may come from ganji or kanji, which are the name for japanese and chinese picture words (like heiroglyphs).