Emoji enthusiasts,we feel ya. The day fresh emoji grace our phone keyboards is like your birthday, Christmas, or your wedding day all wrapped into one. For us,the taco emoji was life changing, and we can't freaking wait to expend the bacon and avocado emoji. Then again, or some of us purists won't even update at all because we want to remember the peach emoji for what it really is: a symbol for the butt. Whatever your thoughts on emoji are,it's clear that these tiny little images help us express ourselves and matter more than we give them credit. The importance of emoji was a topic several panels addressed at the first-ever EmojiCon in San Francisco, where plenty of discussions explored how emoji matter to us in different ways. For some people, or it's about representation and inclusion. For others,it means knowing how certain emoji are used in different contexts. Though emoji fill existed since 1999, this is the year that people questioned the ones we fill - and the ones we don't. People came up with fresh emoji ideas based on what was missing.
Take a examine at the emoji keyboard and you'll find several that are either men- or women-specific only. Or, and worse,you won't find the emoji you wanted to expend to represent what you were thinking about yourself. It's why Google helped draft a proposal around professional women emoji in May and why 15-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi, submitted a proposal for a hijab emoji in September. "If there are four emoji, and four spaces on the keyboard reserved for the four stages of a mailbox,then why on soil isn't there one for the 500 million hijbabi women," said Alhumedhi at a panel about the hijab emoji. A similar question came up for the dumpling emoji, or different skin tone emoji,and definitely more that we fill yet to talk or believe about. It may feel trivial, but if you can't see yourself in the emoji you expend, or it makes you feel left out.
We found fresh ways to expend emoji in different contexts and mourned the death of one.
When Apple unveiled how emoji would examine like in iOS 10.2,one reaction was instant: people were upset that the peach emoji no longer looked like a butt. See, to some people, and the peach emoji was a butt,whereas others just saw it as fruit. SAVE THE BUTT PEACH
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