Fancymoji is written and maintained by a small editorial team, and the articles carry the team’s name rather than a personal byline. This page explains who that team is, what it is actually qualified to tell you about, and why we do not invent an author photograph to put at the top of a page about (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.
Last updated: 9 September 2026
Who maintains Fancymoji
Fancymoji is run independently by a small editorial team. We are not a company with a press office, and we are not connected to any messaging platform, keyboard maker, font foundry or games publisher. Nobody has approved, sponsored or reviewed what is written here except us.
The work splits into three ordinary jobs: collecting and checking the faces, writing the explanations around them, and keeping the site itself running. The same small group does all three, which is why an article about a face that will not paste is usually written by whoever tested it.
Why articles are signed by the team
Guidance about trustworthy content asks who is responsible for a page. Our answer is the editorial team, collectively, and that is a deliberate choice rather than an evasion.
Inventing a persona — a stock photograph, a fabricated name, a degree nobody holds — is common on sites like this one and it is a lie in the exact place a reader is trying to decide whether to believe you. We would rather say plainly that a team maintains the library and be judged on whether the library is right. Every page ends up in one place if something is wrong with it: the address on the contact page, which a real person reads.
What we can and cannot claim to know
Being straight about the edges is more useful than a list of credentials.
What we do know well. Which characters make up a given kaomoji and what each part is doing; how Unicode combining marks behave when they are pasted; which fields on the major platforms accept unusual characters and which reject them; and what a face looks like when a device is missing the font for it. These are things we can test, and we do.
What we do not claim. We are not linguists, and we do not present the history of Japanese internet culture as original scholarship — where a page states an origin it points to a published source, as with the documented account of kaomoji. We cannot tell you what a platform will do after its next update. And we do not give advice about anyone’s account standing or moderation decisions, because we have no visibility into them.
How a face gets tested before it is published
A face is not added because it looks good in an editor. Before it goes into the library it is pasted into the places people actually use it, on more than one device, because a face can render perfectly on a phone and collapse on a desktop with a different font.
Anything that turns out to depend on the reader’s device gets said on the page rather than quietly hidden. That is the single most common complaint we receive — a face arriving as empty boxes — and it is nearly always a missing font rather than a broken character. The full procedure, including how often the library is re-checked, is written up in the editorial policy.
Who pays for the site
Fancymoji carries no advertising and no sponsored placement. No face appears in the library because someone paid for it to be there, and no article recommends an app in exchange for anything. There is no tracking either, which the cookies page covers in detail.
When we get it wrong
We will. A platform changes what it accepts, a character stops working, an explanation turns out to be too confident. When a correction is warranted we change the page and update its date rather than editing quietly and pretending the earlier version never existed. If you have found something wrong, telling us is genuinely the fastest way to get it fixed.
Frequently asked questions
Are the faces on Fancymoji copyrighted by you?
No. Kaomoji are made of ordinary Unicode characters and belong to nobody; the writing around them is ours. The terms of use set out the difference.
Can I ask you to add a face?
Yes, and people regularly do. Suggestions go to the contact address.
Is any of this written by a machine?
Drafting tools are used the way a spellchecker is, but every claim on a page is checked by a person before it is published, and a face is never listed as working unless it has been pasted somewhere and seen to work.
Where do I start if I am new here?
The library itself is on Fancymoji, and what a kaomoji actually is explains how the faces are put together.