“Death By Emoji” Bot Predicts Your End (And Promotes Ryan Higa’s New Movie)

On September 16th, Tell Me How I Die, a film co-starring YouTuber Ryan Higa, will premiere. The movie is a horror-thriller centered around a group of college students who begin to see grisly visions of their own deaths, and given that premise, it is being promoted in a fitting manner. The Tell Me How I Die team has launched the “Death By Emoji” bot, which gives Twitter users pictorial representations of their own demises.

To learn their fate, Twitter users are instructed to tweet at @DeathByEmojiBot using the hashtag #TMHID. To kick things off, the film’s cast (which also includes former iCarly co-star Nathan Kress) submitted their own names to the bot, and it told each of them how they will kick the bucket. Apparently, Higa will be trampled by elephants at the circus. Tough way to go, I’d say.

While Death By Emoji’s status as a bot characterizes it as an account that offers a quick response, I still have not been told

how I will be snuffed out. I’m going to take that to mean I will live a long, full life and die in a quiet, unspectacular manner.

UPDATE: I now live in fear of minestrone.

Even if Death By Emoji doesn’t follow through for everyone who submits to it, the film it promotes promises plenty of bloodshed. Tell Me How I Die will begin a limited theatrical run on the 16th, but for fans who won’t be able to catch it on the big screen, it will also be available for digital download. For Higa, who has spent more than 10 years as one of YouTube’s most likable personalities, the film is a big step forward. I’d only advise him to keep a safe distance from all pachyderms in the near future.