Suddenly, Glyph had a new home: a gallery page titled Next to it was the Android KitKat blushing smiley and the original Windows 8.1 rolling on the floor laughing.

Glyph smiled, flat and pixel-perfect.

But one day, a developer named Maya found the CDN link buried in a decade-old Stack Overflow thread. The title read:

A graphic designer in Berlin used Glyph in a ironic sticker pack for a techno album. A teenager in Jakarta inserted Glyph into a custom Android ROM's emoji font. A novelist in Vermont pasted Glyph into a printed zine about digital nostalgia.

But Glyph noticed something strange. Visitors to Maya's site didn't just look. They downloaded him. Right-click. Save Image As. "ios9_laugh_cry.png."