Communication platforms of any kind, from WhatsApp to Discord, They have been inundated with stickers for some time now, the evolution of emoticons, which in turn are the evolution of emoticons. Yes, all this happened in a little over 20 years and we have to add gifs, memes… without a doubt the development of the “written” language was more than considerable, something in which the internet and mobile phones played a very important role.

Although there are many people who experience some rejection of these visual elements commonly used in written communication, It is undeniable that they have come to staybecause the younger generations adopted them en masse not only for their aesthetic component, but also because on many occasions they help to avoid ambiguity when interpreting the intent of a written message.

In the case of WhatsApp, the presence of this type of elements is quite commonand Meta is aware of their importance, so they try to add new features related to them regularly. For example, we told you in August that the company was testing to create them with artificial intelligence, a movement that we can’t help but relate to the AI ​​boom and the need for tech companies to prove that they are on the crest of the wave

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Who wants artificial intelligence to have natural intelligence? I want to believe that this is what they thought in Meta and that in response to it have started deploying the manual sticker creation feature in WhatsApp, as they posted on Instagram. As you can see in the mentioned publication, the process seems quite simple and at the same time offers full control over the final result. The composition mode is a bit reminiscent of Instagram stories.

I usually use stickers (and emoticons and emoticons) on a daily basis, and although it is possible to find many collections of very cool stickers, the ability to create them in a personalized and manual way, instead of delegating them to an AI that can offer me the result I want, or maybe not, this seems like an important achievement on Meta’s part, and therefore the reason I may somewhat increase my use of dean of instant messaging services.

Deployment is gradual. It was initially released only in the WhatsApp client for iOS and after updating on my iPhone I verified that I already have it (sorry for my close contacts…) with no news at the moment on when it will be extended to Android and if it is planned bringing this feature to the web version and desktop client as well.