The emotionalization is a typical characteristic for youth language and the communication on social media. The excessive expression of emotions is often portrayed through the use of emojis. Additionally, emojis are often ascribed the function of compensation, since they are used to reproduce mimical information, which cannot be expressed in a written form. For the language in a social media context,  Emojis function as gestures do in verbal communication. The term «Emoji», which is derived from Japanese, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary and is defined as follows: «A small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc., in electronic communications.» The first Emojis were developed in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita, a Japanese artist. He wanted to create an easy way to send information through the interface of a Japanese mobile internet platform. Swiftly, the integration of emojis was widely accepted in Japan and soon integrated worldwide into Unicode. Unicode means that the emojis were designed in a consistent way on a global level so that every mobile phone user has the same options to choose from. However, emojis do not belong to one specific language but rather are translingual and transnational. Moreover, there are no rules on how emojis are to be used. Emojis usually appear at the end of a text chunk and play a big role in creating emotional meaning. The language of emojis is very individualistic and thus, it is difficult to ascribe the exact meaning to an emoji. The understanding of emojis is also influenced by the emoji community which surrounds one on a personal, regional, and international level.