 Rather than, you know, using written language to communicate that we're happy or sad, instead we dumbly draw a smiley face or a frowny face. I happy, smiley face, which is what you're really saying when you send a smiley face. So all of this controversy over emoji color could be avoided if everyone simply behaved and communicated as adults and used actual words rather than little pictures and cartoons. In any case, let's go to the article.