"Excited about reading because of my new glasses and us. Banana."
That may sound like the weirdest haiku ever but it's a post on a new emoji-based blogging platform: Emojinate.
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Think of Emojinate as a mashup of Tumblr and Twitter that relies on emoji. New users log in with Twitter and the site generates a random string of five emoji. It's then up to users to "translate" the emoji into a phrase or story that can be as long or as as short as they want.
The results are predictably hilarious and nonsensical. The site also uses an upvoting system so others can vote on their favorite "translations."
The app is the project of web developer Ramsay Lanier, who says he designed the open source site as a weekend project to "jumpstart creativity." Developers who want to take advantage of the platform can do so over at GitHub.
While we have yet to see any with the infamous poo emoji, Emojinate's users have so far not disappointed in the creativity department.
In other pictogram news news, emoji lovers will soon have even more available, as 250 new characters, including more racially diverse ones, are planned for the coming year.
BONUS: 5 Emoji Meanings That Might Surprise You
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