Does the world need more emoji? Probably not. Will it get them? Absolutely. I mean, there’s a whole movie about them now — which, despite getting absolutely..
Does the world need more emoji? Probably not. Will it get them? Absolutely. I mean, there’s a whole movie about them now — which, despite getting absolutely wrecked by the critics, still made nearly $25 million dollars in its opening weekend.
Hell, they’ ve already started narrowing down which emoji will be added to our phones in 2018 .
You see, simple as they may seem at face value, there’s actually a good amount of thought put into those ‘lil poops and smilies. It’s all overseen by a group called the Unicode Consortium — of which Apple, Google, Adobe, Facebook and a bunch of other big names are members. Within that consortium is a group called the Emoji Subcommittee, which solicits and vets ideas from just about anyone willing to make a case.
Below are the 67 emoji that have made the cut — so far — for 2018. There’s such unforgettable stars as “Face with uneven eyes and mouth” (tl; dr: drunk) , “salt shaker” (which will obviously become the go-to substitute for calling someone salty) and “frowning pile of poo” — because it’s 2017 and even poo is unhappy with things right now.
Note that they’ re not finalizing this list until later this year, so things might change — so don’ t get too attached to any of them just yet. Meanwhile, the art shown is largely just placeholder stuff; most of the bigs, be it Apple/Google/Facebook/etc., bring their own art to the table to better fit their platforms.
