GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

The first emoji was a cave drawing of a face that said “bruh.”

✗ FAKE

The word emoji comes from Japanese, and the first emoji set was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999. Cave art did not include emoji, and the bruh face is a joke.

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