I shifted the focus of my project to be a one stop shop emoji dictionary that could serve as a place for people to make/share emojis, see existing emojis and their meanings, and join emoji communities or friend groups where they can find like-minded emoji-ers.
Iterations of my project (so far for the landing page of the emoji dictionary):
New ideas that came up from user testing/feedback:
-Make an emoji combiner/masher to help people create new emojis and build out the emoji dictionary
-Make a text to emoji or emoji to text converter (kind of like google translate for emojis)