Emoji is the language of the Internet, and a new Web app is helping you use it to tell stories. Emojinate, a weekend project put together by developer Ramsay Lanier, invites you to translate the characters into words.
It prompts users with a random assortment of five emoji. After that, things are pretty much up to you: Put together a story, a poem, whatever you like, using the emoji as a source text.
So far a few people are having plenty of fun “translating” these random emoji into coherent texts. Here’s what some of our favorites look like:
Emojinate
Developers wanting to extend Lanier’s creation can do so over at Github, as it’s a totally open-source project. Or you can just check out Emojinate on your own, which will require you to log in with your Twitter account.
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