Conan began the interview with the statement "you're a proud Australian!" to which Maia responded:
She went on to say that she's "really not patriotic at all" except when it comes to emojis.
Maia also brought up the lack of racial diversity in the emoji keyboard.
"Look at all those white people!" she exclaimed, while a screen showed dozens of white emoji characters. Maia also pointed out that there are only two minority emojis.