Emoji Mashup Bot

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About

Emoji Mashup Bot is a Twitter account founded by Louan Bengmah. The account publishes an edited image that combines two or more emojis into one new emoji every hour.

History

On July 16th, 2019, the Twitter^[1] account @EmojiMashupBot launched, posting its first creation, "😱 horrified + 😲 astonished (shown below).

That day, the page tweeted^[2] a thread that explained how the process for creating the mashup work. They wrote, "the bot selects two different emojis from a list[…]Every single emojis of that list have been cut into four pieces[…]When all the pieces are selected they all merge using process, which will generate a brand new emoji." The initial tweet received more than 1,400 likes and 150 retweets in less than one month (a portion of the thread below)

On July 19th, the account tweeted^[3] one of its most popular mashups: alien emoji plus cowboy. The post received more than 27,000 likes and 9,000 retweets (shown below, left). The following day, the bot received an even bigger response for the partying emoji combined with the in-tears emoji. The post garnered more than 70,000 likes and 20,000 retweets in three days (shown below, right).

Highlights

On July 22nd, 2019, the website techdigest.tv^[4] interviewed the creator of the bot, Louan Bengmah, an 18-year-old student from Nantes, France. Bengmah said, "“I wanted to discover new ways of coding and programming and I thought making a small Twitter bot would be a great project to work on […] Some memes and jokes on the internet use them sometime. I thought that, on Twitter, people would like them and would make funny jokes about them, especially my friends. I never imagined getting the audience it got in less than a week!"

Several other media outlets covered the account, including The Daily Dot, ^[5] Digg, ^[6] The Next Web^[7] and more.