And, as of this year, according to a breakdown of the website emojitracker by Luminoso, a text-­analytics company, the tilde was surpassed in usage on Twitter by the emoji symbol for “joy.” ...

No, I was not so basic as to make Katniss/Catnip a cat. (See Finnick Odair.) But in an emoji Catching Fire–Friday Night Lights mashup, wouldn’t Timmy Riggins totally be Gale? What with their ...