Cause that particular tears of joy emoji only became standardized in Unicode 6.0, 2010. It was presumably around a bit before that but nobody except the Japanese really did a lot of emoji stuff much before that (iirc Google and Apple only started adding the first emoji to their keyboards 2007-08).
Either way would find it very interesting if somebody was already using the emoji way before that, or the text area of the picture went through multiple iterations.
Was it already with the same text/emoji combo?
Cause that particular tears of joy emoji only became standardized in Unicode 6.0, 2010. It was presumably around a bit before that but nobody except the Japanese really did a lot of emoji stuff much before that (iirc Google and Apple only started adding the first emoji to their keyboards 2007-08).
Either way would find it very interesting if somebody was already using the emoji way before that, or the text area of the picture went through multiple iterations.