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lmm on Feb 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like t...

IRC has a protocol for avatar photos. Some clients will even download/display them automatically. And a lot of clients render emojis these days.

pmlnr on Feb 11, 2016 [–]

If by emoji you mean the unicode table, yes, you're right.

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