And yet many men find themselves grasping for emoji where words either fail them or come up short (prawn, perhaps).
The
tennis star Roger Federer sprinkles his tweets with them, and Mike
Scott, a 6-foot-8 forward with the Atlanta Hawks, has several emoji
tattoos, including the pair of dancing girls with bunny ears. The rapper
Drake blew up the Internet last fall when a photograph of a
praying-hands emoji tattoo, inked onto his right forearm, surfaced on
Instagram.
Jordan
Peele, of the sketch comedy duo Key & Peele, proved his fluency
when he retold the story of “The Shining” through 96 carefully selected
emoji packed into a single tweet, an effort that has won him more than
13,000 retweets.
