Frowning Poo and 66 Other New Emojis Proposed for Potential Release in 2018's Unicode 11

Stop, just stop...

Unless you can create one that includes a wink and three farts because that is what I think of pretty well all emojii's other than the original 10 or so. :dino:
 
Why don't they just make emojis an inline gif instead of a unicode character? That way every device can send and receive unlimited characters and older devices will be able to display new ones without updating iOS versions.
 
EsqCats said:
We are at the stage where we should be able to choose which emojis are displayed in the emoji-picker. It's great for the OS to suggest others as we might need them, but really each individual user is probably only ever less than 5% of the available emojis.
Here's a trivial example: There are flags for every country and a large number of language/skin colour/cultural-specific emojis: these are items that I will never choose - I should be able to remove them from the picker to make it easier to use the ones that I want to use.
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Just an emoji "Favorites" instead of "Recents" would do the trick nicely IMHO.
 
Let me guess, what's in the pipeline:
1. Jewish frowning poo
2. Chinese frowning poo
3. Arab frowning poo (in a towel, to conform to local standards)
4. The Dutch/German frowning poos (pink homosexual version, paired duo)
 
I don't usually pay much attention to emojis or emoji news when I've moved on to stickers and Giphy, but poop emoji will always be dear to me. They've had frowning poop emoji throw pillows for quite awhile so it's about time the real deal was created. :D I wish we had poopicons for the forum.
 
MDMachiavelli said:
Hey if you don't like them, don't use them.
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True, but suppose you want to. With over two thousand five hundred emojis and no signs of slowing down, the issue has become finding a specific one. You have to admit it's getting a little over the top. We'll soon have a dozen different arrangements of hearts on faces, and we've entered the bold new era of various emotions experienced by poop.

Edit: That poop isn't just frowning, it looks positively terrified. Based on my experience this morning, I understand.
 
Next up?

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Chupa Chupa said:
Picture? I would imagine the softball might be a different color or have different stitching. Still esoteric, yes. But I'm sure the handful of people that would use the softball emoji will know what it is and for the rest of us we won't care just like we don't care about the rest of the characters.
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So I'm a nerd and I looked it up :) Other than size, weight, and internal coefficients of restitution ("springiness" of center) the only difference I could find (and the only one that would be visible when scaled to the same size) is color. All levels of softball sanctioning bodies allow optic yellow whereas baseballs must be white. I'll guess they'll use that color as the differentiation of the emoji.

I suppose maybe the number of stitches or relative radii of the leather straps could be different but my brief searching didn't say anything about that being the case (or even consistent within any type, just nothing speaking to it at all).
 
Why is this news? I'll tell you why this is news. Because a lot of people click on these articles, if only to say how much emojis are a waste of time, that they don't care and that people who use them are so inferior because of it. You may not like emojis and do not want to see it as news, but you still give them what they want by complaining on these articles: clicks. People might think the best way to stop these emoji news articles is to complain, but the best way is probably to just stop clicking on all these articles in the first place.

BTW, I like emojis, sure there's a lot of them that I find totally useless, but the faces, hand signs, etc. have a purpose.
 
pedzsan said:
My fear is that part of my tax dollars are going to fund this group of worthless people that originally had a very important mission but when that got finished, they found a new non-reason to continue to spend money.
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The serious work of the consortium continues. Government agencies are members to ensure that their languages, currency symbols, and the like are represented in a worldwide communications standard. The work of the consortium is completely justified if, by using these standards, a commitment to pay a certain amount of USD doesn't arrive as a commitment to pay in HKD. Businesses that are members are almost undoubtedly the ones putting the time and effort into emoji - joint development of these things saves them money, and it's important that a smiley face sent from an iPhone doesn't arrive as a frowning pile of poo at Gmail. :oops:

Since full consortium membership for a government or large business is $18,000/year... a bit of quick math. 2017 U.S. budget: $3.21 trillion. Let's say 10 U.S. government agencies are members of the consortium (seems a lot to me, but you never know). $180,000... Presuming you're wealthy enough to have paid $1 million in taxes, you contributed $0.0006 to the consortium (give or take a couple of decimal places).
 
Frowning poo is much needed (to compliment normal poo situations). Also I'm a big fan of the three hearted emoji, which will allow girls to express their exact feelings better than existing emojis, and smiling cape as it's cheesy but still could be funny in certain situations. These add ons are much better than those from the last article lol.

Side note: emoji's that add expressions will always be better than emoji's that add objects; since those are unnecessary. Apple's attempt to get people to put in emoji's instead of real descriptive noun's is a total fail. It only works on Instagram posts.
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mmcc said:
Is this what passes for innovation nowadays?
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Social engineering. Does it sound more professional now?
 
So after thousands of years of human language and communication development....we are now regression back to pictographs?
 
nwcs said:
I've given up on using emojis for the most part. Too many of them, too hard to find specific ones, and they keep adding more. I like the old ascii days with simple smiles :) and frowns :( or other creative ascii ones. Faster to do, too, since you don't need to change keyboards, swipe, swipe, swipe, tap...
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I feel exactly the same. They work when there’s a limited choice that’s quick to browse. The are so many variations of the faces now it’s ridiculous. 75 by my count and that’s before you get to the stupid devils, cats, ghosts and skulls. Don’t get me started on the posing ones in 6 different skin tones now because, I guess, PC...

It’s like Unicode Consortium are basically trolling us at this point. In my opinion they f*ed up but can’t go back on it now. It’s not like there’s any logic or reason behind what’s in there anyway. So they arbitrarily chose a kooky Japanese emoticon set to include in their international text standards? Riiiigght. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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I like the freezing one and the celebrating one. The rest seem completely unnecessary.

We're going to need a new way of organizing these... IE, frowing poo could be something you get at by tapping and holding on smiling poo? Because it already takes awhile for me to find the emojis I want.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
I don't use they synthetic emojis much at all either. AND frankly I resent there is an emoji key on my iPad keyboard where the shift key should be. For a touch typer like me is screws me up every freaking time. And that makes me
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Yep! I am on one keyboard only. I like having slightly larger keys on the bottom row to replace something I don't use.
 
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