You guys won't believe how far emoji has come — Unicode just dropped nine new designs that are going to land on our phones by next spring! The whole thing was previewed by Jennifer Daniel ahead of World Emoji Day (July 17), and honestly, some of these fix real problems we didn't even realize we had. There's the Cracking Face which is a smiling face literally crumbling apart — it replaces the Squinting Eyes option that got swapped in early last year because Melting Face was already doing heavy lifting for "everything-is-fine" vibes and needed an actual better alternative. Then there's the Meteor, which looks like a flaming meatball and sits alongside the Comet, which gets its icy blue look back after it spent too long looking at a hunk of rock careening through the atmosphere on some platforms — because obviously you want to distinguish between "harmless celestial object" and "the thing that wiped out the dinosaurs."
And don't even get me started on the Monarch Butterfly. It exists alongside the Morpho butterfly, which is already our go-to for pretty aesthetics on Instagram, but the problem was cross-platform fragmentation where a user would send an aesthetic butterfly to someone who received it as plain — so adding the Monarch gives us the "pretty" option and also carries what Daniel calls generational resilience and deep ancestral memory. We're getting an Eraser emoji, a Net With Handle, a Lighthouse, and even two thumbs pointing left and right for all your RVD impressions. But then there's the Pickle emoji — seriously? If anyone sends me that I am replying with either 🤮 or just blocking you immediately.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2215190/the-next-wave-of-emoji-could-help-you-evoke-beauty-and-existential-dread/
And don't even get me started on the Monarch Butterfly. It exists alongside the Morpho butterfly, which is already our go-to for pretty aesthetics on Instagram, but the problem was cross-platform fragmentation where a user would send an aesthetic butterfly to someone who received it as plain — so adding the Monarch gives us the "pretty" option and also carries what Daniel calls generational resilience and deep ancestral memory. We're getting an Eraser emoji, a Net With Handle, a Lighthouse, and even two thumbs pointing left and right for all your RVD impressions. But then there's the Pickle emoji — seriously? If anyone sends me that I am replying with either 🤮 or just blocking you immediately.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2215190/the-next-wave-of-emoji-could-help-you-evoke-beauty-and-existential-dread/