The End of Emojli: The Post-Mortem 

The irony of watching this in the future when Vine is also a dead app

Tom: "We can talk about this on Citation Needed at some point now." [THEY LAUGH] Tom: No, because what we're doing there, is we're setting ourselves up for a 15 minute roasting from Gary and Chris. That is just handing them ... 'Here you go, here is a really easy ball. Knock it out the park.'" Not going to lie, still an episode I would love to watch. Even almost two years after this video.

Interestingly, one of the sources to the Emojli Wikipedia article is this very video.

I love the moments when Tom is trying to be serious or make a dry joke, and loses it completely.

And away we go with the first Park Bench! Thanks to everyone who sent this question in: here's some closure on what it was like running, and then killing, Emojli.

7 months later, still waiting on that Citation Needed episode talking about Emojli.

"squirrel farting in park daily mail" is a suggestion that comes up when you get to "squirrel fart...'

I was about to try and find your vine, but then I remembered.

I should have been in bed an hour ago. I have to get up for work in five hours time. I still have 5 tabs open with Matt and Tom videos to watch!! And every video I watch gives me two more videos I still want to watch, It's like battling the bloody Hydra!!!

It'd be really amusing if Gary or Chris would choose Emojli for "Two of These People Are Lying". It'd be a dead giveaway as to who was telling the truth, but the answers would be hilarious. ;)

😄👆📲👇📵😞 Translation: I was happy. I clicked on this video. I was sad. No emiojli. :(

YORK-shire! YORK-shire! YORK--sorry, old Technical Difficulties joke.

oh dear i just started to type squeral farts in, and then it filled in park, thanks tom and mat, you may have broke youtube search

This channel is such a great idea! Tom, you are always so polished in your explaining of everything, so it's fun to see you unedited just hanging out with Matt. I've become addicted to all your vids, especially Citation Needed and it's forerunner, whatever it's called with Trivial Pursuit. Please continue being awesome.

"Most recent Vine." Me in 2020: "Uhhhh..."

I remember watching the original video and felt really sorry for you :-D It somehow reminds me of setting up a band, recording a few songs and then realizing we actually have to play the music live :-D HORROR!

Aww bless, Tom not thinking he was notable enough to have a Wikipedia article.

Did they just say Vine? Wow that dates this video.

{sad face} {fax machine} {red book} {Easter Island head}

I would love to see Emojli on Citation Needed

my favorite part of this video is the lighting in the background making it look like they were surrounded by fire.

hah and now vine is shutting down

Talking about a dead app, another dead app (vine), about a format thats dead on a format thats also dead...

You two bounce off each other really well.

Hearing them say they have a video on Vine really dates the video

Sucks that we can't see that Vine anymore... :/

Thanks for the update guys!! I had watched your big video from the release weekend but since I'm on Android, I never followed up to see if I could get it. I had wondered what ever happened with it when I binge watched the last Citation Needed season when you released it. I'm glad everything was "sorted" without any big issues for you guys. (that was the first time I'd heard "sorted" used like that, aside from Sorted Foods' videos! lol!) Btw, I am anxiously awaiting the next season of Citation Needed! Let's crack on with that, ok? 😉 In the meantime, I'm off to rewatch 5 minutes of wallaby butler material....

I can already tell I'm going to enjoy the next episodes in this series. It was Interesting to hear more about this. If you still have the domain name by April fools next year, You should do something & try to get it picked up by news sites. :P

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

i cant wait for emojili to appear on citation needed. (almost) random article button dont fail us now.

Rest In Peace Emojli

Why were there only 5 rows in your database? Seems kinda strange... :P

more of this matt and tom

Thanks for that story guys. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Including all side tracks. It must have been crazy when people started calling for equity et cetera...

If you ever do something unique like this again, before shutting it down, you might ask someone to sponsor it's upkeep for a year. At say $500 per year, surely there's someone on the planet that would think it was worth doing, even if their only reward was the satisfaction of knowing that they kept it running that year.

Question for you guys, specifically Tom: In the video you did for TedX in 2012 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d68mcH2veCU.html, you had a very dynamic presentation, both graphically on the screen and in the software compiling live results from twitter. I'd be really interested to hear about the setup you had, including the software you used (or maybe created!?) to take tweets and incorporate them into a dataset, then the method you used to integrate those results into a slideshow/presentation with dynamic text, updating live. All the best!

Love this channel! Don't quietly bury it please.

rip in peace emoj.li

Massive international collaborative effort of standardisation The plural of mouse is mice, Tom.

Great video! I wish I had known about Emojli when it was up. Shame you had to kill it, I would totally have used it. And yay for The Technical Difficulties!

Episode 1 and 15,000 subscribers... That's impressive!! Great video guys.

Did you at least used the data for some linguistic study? Like what emojis are most used or what combinations are used.

Introducing: Emojli: this time we actually worked on it

I think you were about to say how many users actually cared for their data / downloaded it / reacted after you announced the end of the app. Did you see any of that?

Watching this in the future when the emoji movie exists

What the heck is sparkling behind Matt's shoulder?? Are there fireflies in the UK? Is it tinsel?

i just looked up squirrel farting in park ...

Excellent. Can't wait for the next one.

You should do this as a podcast. That would be cool.

The Wikipedia page was last edited at 23:59 UTC on 6 April 2021, as I type this on 10 April of that year

At 11:43, I can't help but hear the Allegro section (from bar 25) of Edvard Grieg's _Norwegian dance №2_

The ad that ran for me at the front of this video had two people sitting on a park bench with dogs.

Do you guys have any intention of making any more audio episodes of that trivia card game? I think it's hysterical, I love citation needed and I'd love for the other one to come back

Is this the same bench that started the idea for Emojli. I remember a park bench in the Behind the scenes video. If so that would fitting.

That you did it properly ... is why I follow both of you ...

Oh shucks that would've made a great subject for the last citation needed.

... They still had Vine ;( ... I want it back

GIF only messenger?

I'm going to be very disappointed if season 5 of Citation Needed doesn't have an Emojli episode.

What part of support emails were purely user error related? Precision appreciated.

How about you guys mention a location of the bench in the beginning of a video?

I thought you were going to say Americans don't have data protection, which would have been more accurate.

You mentioned in the video about sharing the code, did you post it online somewhere?

Matt. Do your own show. I think you can go further with YOUR ideas. See how many people come up with them at the same time as you, when you don't tell them about it before you make it.

I like that they put the end of emojli on vine...

The concept is fantastic, I do feel that a donation account could be set up which keeps the money and pays the apps running cost until the account runs out funds. I certainly don't feel it should come out of your pocket. I accept that it wouldn't run on future device but feel it could be left to die out more slowly. Did you ever release the code or would someone have to contact you directly about it (don't destroy it please).

Either there's 2 of him, or the bloke with the husky bike-sled lives near me now, see him now and then in town, mushing away.

I like this, but I definitely sense a quality gap between this and other similar shows (like Hello Internet or Diggnation). Maybe it's because this is unedited, but it might just be because it's Episode #1.

The mention of Citation Needed is reminding me that I'm hungry for some.....Mystery Biscuiiiiits.

Couldn't see either, both are gone

Emojli is something I am sad I wasn't around for

could you do a video of things NOT to do in london?

Great video guys.

Thanks for sharing!

I would have used that if it still was up.

The references to vine gave me wipelash

RIP sweet prince.

Man, Vine. Haven't heard that name in a long time

how would that app have worked for cross-lingual comunication? i wonder if you can talk like that, or at least a very basic kind of conversation

When citation needed and when more benches? May i suggest Prince's Park, Burntwood & La Treille park, Switzerland

would i severely regret if i tried to do this

I'm watching this in 2016 after watching part of it in 2015.

9:50 hah... and vine is down now as well.

Tom, I have been wondering if there is going to be a "Citation Needed: Season 4". I have read somewhere that there would be but I cant remember where. If there is going to be another season do we have an approximate release date at all? Thanks.

9:38 RIP Vine.

Emojli was a front page news story in the national Australian newspaper

That would be a brilliant Citation Needed. Just close the laptop and start the episode.

oh i always presumed matts job was being toms camera man/sidekick

oh, please please please do Emojli on Citation Needed.

Tom not thinking he's notable enough for a Wikipedia article is hilarious to me

I find it so funny that vine is now also shut down.

That's weird, I only heard about the Yo-App yesterday on the No such Thing as a Fish-Podcast!

Hey guys, sorry if this sounds like a moan, but could you do some compression on the audio? The talking is very quiet and the sting at the end blows my eardrums! ( on headphones !) Thanks

If you Google squirrel farting in park daily mail The things that come up are campgrounds shutting because of squirrels with BUBONIC PLAGUE (their caps not mine) And a dog farting and waking itself up Wow the daily mail post rubbish.

Pfft, hundreds of miles... Sounds like a trip to the next town over.

What's that bit about they being very efficient at unsubscribing?

do you think that people are going to start shipping you two?

Emojli as a topic on Citation Needed: Please make this happen.

I saw the vine where you dropped the database. Why were there only 5 rows? O.o

At 9:46 Tom sounds extremely English there, comically so