Jenken Magazine reported: "While they were on the phone one day, Hawk sent Burge a picture of his own board"[26] which was used as the basis of Emojipedia's revised skateboard design.

[32] Emoji flags for England, Scotland, and Wales were added to the Unicode Standard in 2017 after a formal proposal[33] co-authored by Burge was approved.

[42] In 2019, Burge raised the issue of Facebook using user-submitted phone numbers for undocumented purposes,[43][44] and in 2020, he identified TikTok accessing user clipboard data on every keystroke.

[56] The Evening Standard reported that Burge "lectured on the history and social impact of emojis" at TEDxEastEnd at London's Hackney Empire in 2017.

[57] In addition, Burge has spoken at conferences such as The Next Web in Amsterdam,[58] Smart Future in Riga,[59] Design Matters in Copenhagen[60] and Úll in Killarney.

[79] On World Emoji Day 2019, Burge attended the launch of an exhibition at the National Museum of Cinema[80][81] and spoke alongside Unicode Consortium co-founder Mark Davis at The British Library.

[87] In 2019[88][89] Burge moved onto a 53 ft narrowboat named Dottie M[90] and gained popularity on TikTok with viral clips navigating rivers and canals of the United Kingdom.