The biggest news to come out of the State Department's latest dump of emails sent by and to Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state may be this: She's an emoji addict.
Clinton struggled to keep her emoji game strong in 2012 after she upgraded her beloved BlackBerry. She reached out to her advisers in search of a solution.
Clinton has always had a soft spot for her BlackBerry, or as she calls it in emails, her "berry." When she upgraded her phone in February 2012, she switched to a BlackBerry with a newer operating system that somehow limited her ability to text using emoji.
Clinton was "bereft," and sent a desperate email plea to adviser Philippe Reines, looping in her longtime aide Huma Abedin.
"I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway I can add them?" Clinton wrote. While Clinton referenced emoticons -- which look like this :) -- what she actually means are the little yellow cartoon faces we all know and love.
Reines offered up his own analysis of why Clinton was no fan of her old phone and suggested how she might be able to get her beloved emoji back.
This was clearly a pressing issue for Clinton. She also emailed Reines in April 2012 asking how she could get "smiley faces" on her phone.
in which Hillary Clinton learns about emoji -- or "smiley faces" pic.twitter.com/kC0GDmut1v— Julian Hattem (@jmhattem) October 30, 2015
And early in February 2012 she asked him, "How do you put that big smileycom in your email?"
Before everyone gets on Clinton's case though, keep in mind these emails were sent in 2012. Back then, not everyone's emoji game was on fleek.
I think Hillary Clinton might have figured out how to use the emoji keyboard *significantly* earlier than I did. Colon, open parenthesis— Sam Baker (@sam_baker) October 30, 2015