[phone typing]
My title is Henry and I am an emoji activist.
4 years in the past, I ended studying and writing solely.
Henry believes that humanity is trapped
in what students have referred to as the tyranny of that means
and that emoji primarily based language could be a method
for us to flee these shackles.
Phrases not is smart. Emojis can do all of it.
[message sends]
Certainly one of my primary targets proper now
is to close down all literacy facilities.
That is her, that is her.
Depart me alone. Disgrace on you. Disgrace on you.
He’ll attain out to my college students
pretending to be a free non-public tutor
after which attempt to sabotage every part that we have now labored on.
I like international locations which have low literacy charges.
Afghanistan has 28%. I imply, what a dream.
[Angela] Depart me alone. Disgrace on you, disgrace on you.
Books with phrases have turn out to be completely ineffective.
I’ve taken it upon myself to translate
the nice works of the previous into emoji.
With my emoji-rations,
you may learn the classics in only a few seconds
and it hits simply as arduous.
Bomb. Dove.
Struggle and Peace.
Kevin informed me you took him out of college right now, once more.
Yeah, I needed to. Henry.
I had no selection. They’re poisoning him there.
When Henry first turned an emoji fanatic,
I wasn’t thrilled.
What are you doing with a ebook? No extra books.
Emojis, okay.
Possibly sooner or later the world will all be emojis
however proper now our son is falling behind.
No, no, no, it is the world that is falling behind,
the world. I can not do that anymore,
Henry, I can not do that anymore.
No, no, cease it, Henry, No.
I’ll admit as tough as this mission has been for us,
the coy monkey emoji has saved our marriage many instances.
No.
[receives message]
[message sends]
[receives message]
[message sends]
Phrases, they fall quick
however the monkey emoji expresses who I’m and the way I really feel.
[Gabriel] You see that is the hazard of emojis proper there.
They appear cute and enjoyable on the floor
however they insidiously modify our conduct over time
till you end up out of the blue simply turning right into a monster
like Henry.
[tense music]