Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. I turned 30 this past year, and like many Americans who are finally ready to grow up, I created a ...

Snapchat's new "Bitmoji TV" series is ready for its debut and, yes, it's about as odd as you'd expect. After weeks of dropping bizarre trailers, the company is launching Bitmoji TV, a new cartoon ...

Besides emoticons, Animoji on the iPhone X and GIFs, using Bitmoji strips is another fun way to communicate with others. Bitmoji are animated images created by users that resemble their appearance.

Emoji provide us with a whole new world of expressiveness when we’re online, but they aren’t exactly personal. Fortunately, Bitmoji allows us to customize our characters to create incredibly realistic ...

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Bitmoji has nailed the concept of making adorable, eerily accurate cartoon avatars to text to your friends. Here’s how they did it. The other day, I texted a friend my Bitmoji, a lookalike cartoon ...

The Bitmoji app for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Chrome lets you create and send your own personalized emoji avatar to others. This is what you need to know about the popular Bitmoji keyboard, Bitmoji ...

Using the Bitmoji app, you can create personalized emojis that look like a cartoon version of yourself. It's easy to make a Bitmoji; you start with a selfie, and then customize it as if you were ...

You've probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway? As it turns out, a ...

Want your video game character to look just like you? Soon you’ll be able to scan an in-game code with Snapchat to play as your personalized Bitmoji avatar on PC, console and mobile games. Today ...