Visually, think of a simple comic-style balloon: rounded, white or other light tone, with a small tail pointing to the right and often a thin black or gray outline. It reads as a clean chat bubble or dialogue balloon rather than a character with a face.
Online, it fits neatly into reaction images, webcomics, screenshots, spoof chats, and captioned social posts, where speech balloons are a common framing device.
Conceptually, a right-pointing bubble can denote a reply, an outgoing message, a second voice, or the opposing side in a discussion. It pairs naturally with left-facing bubbles and multi-bubble symbols to depict a conversation.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
