Toyin Aimakhu Announces Yoruba-Themed ‘Teemoji’ App
Emoji have been making it rain for celebs lately.
An estimated six billion of the digital shorthand icons are sent daily worldwide, and its popularity contines to explode, which translates into mega-bucks.
Kim Kardashian’s Kimoji app launched in 2015 nearly broke the Apple store, with 9,000 downloads per second at a cost of $1.99 (USD) translating into one million dollars per minute.
So it makes sound business sense that popular Nollywood actress Toyin Aimakhu would put out her own line of emoji with a Yoruba-twist, according to NET. After all, she has a new reality show coming out called "Keeping Up Toyin Aimakhu." Could Kim K. be her role model?
The actress, who picked up a Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 2013 Best of Nollywood Awards, announced plans to release “Teemoji” on Instagram Wednesday.
She writes:
It's in Yoruba, let's promote our culture and with this I promise I will be able to help a lot of my fans, coming soon, u can download it: Yoruba smileys, Yoruba expressions, Yoruba emojis. Pls support this movement and hope u all are proud of me...We've a lot of expressions and I promise, I pledge with this, I will be able to empower a lot of my fans. You will love it.
The subscription-based, emoji app will feature a set of cartoon-like replicas of Aimakhu’s facial expressions paired with colloquial Yoruba phrases.
Stay smiley as no release date has been revealed yet.