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During the London 2012 opening ceremony, early on in the show a number of giant yellow beach balls were released into the audience. Each had a large smiley face. [56] Walmart uses a smiley face as its mascot. [57] In 2022, Assouline published "50 Years of Good News," a breakdown of the cultural development of the smiley and its use. [58] Votruba, Martin. "17th-century Emoji". Slovak Studies Program. University of Pittsburgh. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018 . Retrieved 4 March 2017. In 2022, the International Day of Happiness was celebrated by projecting a smiley onto a number of landmarks around the globe. In Seoul, South Korea, a smiley celebrating happiness was projected onto The Seoul Tower. [59] Ownership and alternative smileys [ edit ]

Besides, I felt better about the laughter of others when they looked at me. This was a keeper and I still have it.” Ethridge, Mark. “Several Firms Claim to Be Originators of Smile Button.” Nashua Telegraph. September 9, 1971. https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-09-1971-3502894/In the end, the smiley, like rave itself, contains multitudes. The symbol is easy to co-opt because it’s blank enough to mean anything to anyone. It could be unequivocally cheerful or vaguely psychotic. It could represent self-realisation or a mindless rejection of reality. Writing in the Guide in 2009, Jon Savage suggested that the Watchmen comics “used the smiley as a visual metaphor for a narrative that examines guilt, failure, megalomania and compromise with a corrupt power structure”. This paranoid vision, rather than the utopian acid house incarnation, feels suddenly much closer to the smiley’s newest usage.

Flag like this (and 🚩) were generally added to Unicode for compatibility with the Japanese carrier emoji sets, or other pre-emoji fonts such as Webdings. For example: Native American tribe flags, Australian Aboriginal flag, Maori flag, Torres-Strait Islander flag. The word smiley was used by Franklin Loufrani in France, when he registered his smiley design for trademark while working as a journalist for France Soir in 1971. The smiley accompanied positive news in the newspaper and eventually became the foundation for the licensing operation, The Smiley Company.

a b Honan, William H. (14 April 2001). "H. R. Ball, 79, Ad Executive Credited With happy Face". The New York Times . Retrieved 29 August 2009. While the option to send any flag as an image exists on most platforms, the issue is both about practicality (emojis are more flexible than images) but further: representation. [6] Acid History: How The Smiley Became The Iconic Face Of Rave". ElectronicBeats magazine. 5 January 2017. Until recently, Scotland was not eligible for its own emoji flag, at least in the way Unicode encodes flags.

This became a non-issue in 2017, when subdivisions such as Scotland and Texas gained support in the Unicode Standard, albeit using a different method. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Flag for Scotland (GB-SCT) More subdivision flags are relatively simple to support (from a technical perspective) if vendors feel any would be worthwhile additions, and aren't likely to cause unintended consequences. Flags have real-world implications, too.Dave Swindells, the photographer who definitively documented the scene’s formative years, agrees that anti-authoritarian attitudes were both inherent to the culture and essentially unpredictable in character. “Rave and the dance scene really flourished as a result of illegal activity,” he says. “Whether that was holding illegal parties or drug use. So it goes with the territory that people should be open to a diverse and contrary range of opinions. You didn’t just go to those events to dance, but also for the social fun and games; the after-parties. What you could call alternative ideas were fundamental to the scenes which celebrated outsiders. There was an openness to unusual ideas.”

a b "Wal-Mart fights to keep the smiley face:Retail giant says symbol personifies its price-reducing policy, but London-based firm says it secured rights years ago". CNN Money. 5 July 2006. The smiley’s ability to be both innocent and well-meaning and ambiguous and hip all at the same time can be seen in its very beginnings. It couldn't be more simple and so, to that degree, it's empty. It's ready for meaning," says Gibbons, the illustrator behind DC Comics' award-winning Watchmen series, which famously used a blood-splattered smiley as a recurring symbol and as its first cover design. With calls in recent years for emoji representation of the Aboriginal Australian flag, Transgender flag, Brittany flag, Kurdish flag (and many more) it's worth taking a closer look at the ways that flags can be added to the Unicode Standard, and how that impacts the set of flags available today. In the Russian newspaper "Ekaterinburgskaya Nedelya" dated May 28, 1896, the first case of the use of emoticons in Russia was recorded (it is possible that these are the first printed emoticons in history): in a humorous heading, four emoticons were depicted with typographical symbols and punctuation marks - and four emotions of a visitor to the Petersburg merchant fair. [ citation needed]

 

In May 1972, Mad magazine got in on the act when it published a smiley-themed cover – with Alfred E Neuman's inimitable face contained within a yellow disc. It was over in France in the same year, however, that journalist Franklin Loufrani became the first person to register the icon for commercial use. The very first ASCII emoticons — :- ) and :- ( — actually originated in the ’80s, when computer scientist Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University suggested that the symbols be used to contextualize messages posted on a digital message board. More recently, the smiley has been given additional critical bite by the United Kingdom-based graffiti artist Banksy.



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