Emoji Kitchen
Unique illustrations of combined emoji, cooked up in Google's Emoji Kitchen, and comprehensively available on the web
Hammer + Unicorn (courtesy of Julia Evans):
Flamingo + paint palette:
Lip bite + airplane:
Robot + hot dog:
Mario Rocks be like
Huh, TIL about Google's Emoji Kitchen.
About time! 😡
We have played around with it before, it is okay but really needs work to make more combinations unique, make sense or just work, we find it limiting that some things cannot be combined yet.
When these things are fixed then it'll be a lot more interesting, useful and fun ioo.
It sort of looks to me like some of them are human-created (or at least human-curated), and some of the crappier or more nonsensical ones are created by generative AI.
I couldn't find any ones that it would refuse to do -- maybe it's recently started using an AI image generator for those ones?
Edit: Okay, now I am sure that it's using generative AI. I'm not trying to talk smack about the majority of them that are pretty reasonable and even sometimes creative, but also, sunset + butterfly yields: