The payment's timing suggests the client knew nonpublic information about the emoji's significance in the lawsuit.

Get ready to step up your emoji game. Unicode just made its new emoji list for 2019 official, and the update adds 230 new symbols, including a yawning face, white heart, and pinching hand symbol.

Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared ... with the state of his town's financial records. In 1862, The New York Times also allegedly used an emoticon in this snippet of a speech transcript.