The VT office of licensing and trademarks tweeted this:
The struggle is real ....and we've got the fix. #Hokiemoji #comingsoon pic.twitter.com/k4VKAQaWIq— Gear4Hokies (@Gear4Hokies) April 22, 2016
So now we can all obsess over recruits' interest levels depending on (1) whether or not they correctly use VT rather than U of VT, VTU, etc and/or (2) whether they use a chicken, turkey or official Hokie /s
In seriousness, this is a cool feature that VT will use to put its official imprint on social media.
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Let the emoji arms race begin!
We need a HokieBird emoji, VT emoji, throwback VT emoji, Fighting Gobbler emoji, and Hokiestone emoji
FLOOD THE MARKET
This will win all:
That would be the official emoji reply on Snapchat
And we have a winner!
Did not happen...,.NOPE never!!!!
Agreed. And I certainly didn't waste my hard-earned money to see it in person.
I bet UVA will try to copy us... they're just too good at that lately.
They already have an emoji:
Haha I literally lol'ed when this scrolled into view. Thanks Jeep
Lololol!!!
I'll take the turkey over the chicken / rooster that gets used most of the time.
do emojis work on TKP?
Edit: they do not
Call me crazy, I actually like the turkey/gobbler emoji.
That's crazy.
We need a Hokiebird emoji.
OH I'm cool with a Hokiebird emoji, I just want to retain the option for the turkey/gobbler one whenever I feel like it.
Gobble, Gobble, one of us...
The app is live today. It doesn't appear to be a true emoji, rather it's a standalone app that inserts images into text conversations, Twitter, etc. So I think they have some work to do before this will really be embraced
(I don't like having to hop between apps to get it to work), but there are a large number of emojis available, so I'm having fun.No hopping between apps necessary; I just wasn't patient enough for it to install (I guess). After like 5 minutes, it was working.
Apple app? If so what's it called because I've been searching all morning for "Hokie" and am not finding an emoji Apple app.
iOS and Android, search "Virginia Tech Emoji Keyboard."
So University of Virginia Tech, got it.
I wish they'd at least made them emoji sized.
Yeah, this is my biggest gripe. They're not emojis, they're images. And all of them have a huge amount of negative space. Shrink them down to 25% of the current size and it might be OK. As it stands, they take up almost half of my entire phone screen in a text conversation.
Because a third party can't create a true emoji and I believe that phone manufacturers standardize images to be a certain size, specifically in text conversations. That is not controlled by the input image.
Holy crap they are HUGE
requisite:
I like it, but it is a little intrusive, its in the way when I open my gmail app, I'll probably re-install it in the updated version.
I like where theyre going with it though.
They have HorseOnATreadmill!!!
This one seems appropriate:
Anyone able to enable the keyboard on Android? I can only start new conversations with it right now, haven't figured out to insert into existing conversations.
For those of you who haven't seen all 88 emojis: (personal favorite: Horse on a Treadmill)
Where's the penalty flag? /s
Is the timeout so we always have fond memories of TimeCop?
The only one that I think is a major miss is the "pail of water" that I think they want us to use as the 'lunch pail' but everyone knows what the true lunch pail looks like
THERE IS A HORSE ON A TREADMILL EMOJI....
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I am just now seeing this. This is incredible, thank you, thank you all.
One bucket of oats, please