Complexity, when emoji are involved, will always find its way back. The Consortium’s Emoji Subcommittee—a “crack team of emoji wranglers,” in Houston’s words—had its hands full.

This example of emoji use is also a display of symbolic capital. It signals social alignment, in an environment where a user’s visibility (and popularity) is determined by their platform fluency.

Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 include ballet dancers, a fight cloud, a landslide, an Orca, a Treasure Chest, a distorted face, a Hairy Creature (Bigfoot), and an Apple Core.

On July 17, also known as World Emoji Day, Unicode announced that the newest emoji will debut this September as part of Unicode 17.0. That means iPhones with iOS 26 and Android devices will get ...

On the flip side, the Pile of Poo (💩) emoji was deemed least favorite by 11 per cent of respondents and was disliked in 35 states. Once considered playful, it is now widely seen as juvenile and ...