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Kids these days and their darned, new-fangled ways of communicating. I can't wrap my head around what anyone means when they text me "pizza pizza cat-face gun eggplant." You pretty much need to be a World War II codebreaker or have an Enigma machine to understand what the hell anyone is saying to you through the telephone chat portal. Emojis? Whatever happened to words? "Tap dance airplane crying face poop" doesn't mean anything... right? To make things even more complicated for the future of my comprehension skills, 20th Century Fox and Marvel have teamed to release a complete set of emoji starring the one and only Deadpool. If you thought "silly ghost winky face thumbs-up scared cat" was already hard enough to decipher, wait until they slap some Deadpool on it. I'm getting too old for this poop.

Despite engaging in the occasional obnoxious emoji battle with friends on my phone, I was mostly ignorant of the artform's fuller potential... until today. Gizmodo scoured the #emojiart hashtag on Instagram and pointed out that the tiny digital symbols have a higher calling, principally being used to form a giant emoji version of Superman's "S" shield...