If you didn’t know it yet, there is an actual organization that meets and decides the universal software standards for letters and other characters, including emojis. Called the Unicode Consortium, they have announced the 72 new emojis that will be released later this year and will come to a keyboard near you. Well, after your manufacturer adopts it to your devices, that is. But at least you have something to look forward to in your purely emoji conversations with friends (yes, people do that now!).

Unlike when they released the racially and gender diverse emojis previously, this batch seems pretty calm and uncontroversial, unless you have a strong aversion to selfies, because yes, there is now a selfie emoji. It’s just basically an outstretched arm with a phone, so no biggie. And this may come as a surprise and a travesty for some, but apparently, we didn’t have a bacon emoji before! But they have now finally come to their senses and we can post endless bacon emojis when it finally comes.

You have the usual new facial expressions (drooling face FTW!), people/hand symbols (finally a shrug emoji!), animals (aw, what a cute owl!), food (bacon! pancakes! bacon! milk! bacon!), and others. And since this is the year of the Olympics as well, there are new sports and medal-style glyphs that will be added, and hopefully, we get them before the Rio Olympics starts this August.

The 72 emojis will be adopted by Unicode this June, but as we said, it will depend on your platform or manufacturer as to when this will arrive on your device. They will probably be part of the Android N update, due later this year.

VIA: Telegraph

1 COMMENT

  1. What good are they if your manufacturer doesn’t update your phone or those of the people you text with? There needs to be a universal standard, outside of the OS that can be updated independently of the make and model of phone. Every time I hear about these updates to emojis, I just think, ok cool, I’ll never get to use these because even if my phone is updated, the people I text with will just see whatever asterix or # their phone uses to show them that their phone doesn’t know what that symbol is.

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