Jeremy Burge was born on 14 July 1984 and is an emoji historian, founder of Emojipedia, creator of World Emoji Day and widely regarded as an expert on emoji.
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In July 2013, Jeremy Burge started the emoji reference site Emojipedia, after wondering how long the doughnut emoji had been in existence, and not being able to find an answer on Google or Wikipedia.
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Jeremy Burge was Chief Emoji Officer at Emojipedia between 2016 and 2022, overseeing all editorial content on the site.
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Currently representing Emojipedia on the Unicode Technical Committee, Jeremy Burge previously held a position as vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee from 2017 to 2019.
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Jeremy Burge has been a regular news contributor to Emojipedia and responsible for many of the initial emoji definitions on the reference website.
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In 2019 Jeremy Burge raised the issue of Facebook using user-submitted phone numbers for undocumented purposes, and in 2020 identified TikTok accessing user clipboard data on every keystroke.
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Jeremy Burge hosted Emoji Wrap, a podcast from Emojipedia covering "global emoji news and trends" between August 2016 and December 2020 interviewing guests including Mark Davis, Myke Hurley, Jason Snell and Christina Warren.
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The Evening Standard reported that Jeremy Burge "lectured on the history and social impact of emojis" at TEDxEastEnd at London's Hackney Empire in 2017.
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Institutions that have hosted Jeremy Burge include Eton College, Eye Magazine, Google, London Design Museum, The British Library, and University College London.
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Jeremy Burge told Axios in 2017 that "Tim Cook tweeted about [World Emoji Day] this year so I was kind of excited about that".
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In 2017 Burge discussed the origin of World Emoji Day and Emojipedia at AOL BUILD, attended the lighting of the Empire State Building "emoji yellow" with The Emoji Movie voice cast Patrick Stewart, Maya Rudolph and Jake T Austin, and announced the winners of the annual World Emoji Awards from the New York Stock Exchange.
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On World Emoji Day 2019, Jeremy Burge attended the launch of an exhibition at the National Museum of Cinema and spoke alongside Unicode Consortium co-founder Mark Davis at The British Library.
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Jeremy Burge was born in Western Australia, and educated at Assumption College, Kilmore before graduating from Deakin University.