The Emoji House war: A neighborhood feud erupts in El Porto
The Emoji House. Photo by JP Cordero Susan Wieland had been away for a work conference since the end of May, but neighbors sent her the photo. Even so, upon returning to her home in the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach on the night of June 8, she wept when she actually saw her neighbor’s house. The house, a two-level duplex just below Highland on 39th Street, had been painted shocking pink. That wasn’t, however, what particularly upset Wieland. It was the emojis that got her. On the house’s second story, a smiley face emoji had been drawn with comically large eyelashes, eyes pointing different directions, and a tongue lolling out of its mouth. Another emoji adorned the lower level, with the same crisscrossed eyes and pronounced eyelashes, only this one, instead of a smile, was drawn with a zipper for lips — common parlance, in emoji communication, for “Shut up.” Wieland, who arrived by Uber from the airport, got out of the car and looked at the emojis for the first time. Just before leaving for her work trip, she’d gone to a local shop and had eyelash extensions put on. The emojis, which were drawn as if to look directly at Wieland’s home, seemed to be a message aimed…
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