ronguest
ronguest

Hmm. I guess there isn’t an Olympics emoji…

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@ronguest well that must be the oversight of 2018 ... surely?

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ronguest
ronguest

@JohnPhilpin I’ve seen a few people use a medal emoji but it just ain’t the same. Guess we will have to hope for the 2020 Summer games.

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smokey
smokey

@ronguest @JohnPhilpin IIRC the IOC strongly guards and strictly licenses its trademarks (the rings, the flag, maybe some other things), so I’m sure that’s why neither of those are emoji, and we’ll likely never get them.

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ronguest
ronguest

@smokey that’s a logical explanation. I’m sure they have to be careful or people would abuse the logo to no end. But an emoji would seem less subject to abuse and good for their brand. I can dream...

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@smokey understood - they are very good at licensing and partnership deals ... I was suggesting that they missed an opportunity to work with someone to be the licensed Olympic emoji free for all to use, money into IOC and publicity for the org that sends the money - but I guess it ain’t that simple @ronguest

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smokey
smokey

@ronguest @JohnPhilpin I’m sure they don’t want to see their trademarks showing up next to “pile of poo” all over the Internet when something happens people don’t like; once it’s out there in an easy-to-use form like an emoji, anyone will be able do anything with it. (I imagine The Unicode Consortium probably also has some rules about trademarks, too, so things may have been “incompatible” from both ends.)

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@smokey sadly - I know you are right

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