Emoji Thugz is the brainchild of artist Mancini X in collaboration with the OG Solana Collection Thugbirdz. As the emoji meta started to emerge and solidify itself as a way for projects in the space to identify themselves on social media, the idea to do an entire collection made up entirely out of emojis started to form. The artist thought what better way than to take an established project already using emojis as an identifier and recreate the collection with emojis. A pixel style collection was needed. The artist started to brainstorm, and one project came to mind that had mastered branding with simply a trait from the collection, this project was also a pixel style project. The project that came to mind, was none other than Thugbirdz, no other project in the space has been able to brand themselves with simply a trait from the project. Thugbirdz managed to take the pixel shades from the project and make that the brand identifier, it was so simple, yet so identifiable, it was genius.