Apple Says It's Looking Into Making Emoji More Diverse

"There needs to be more diversity in the emoji character set, and we have been working closely with the Unicode Consortium in an effort to update the standard."

For better or worse, emoji have fully infiltrated our digital parlance, rearing their goofy, mostly inexplicable reaction faces in everything from Beyonce tributes to the stitching on smoking slippers. They aren't easy to explain, but that's kind of the point; emoji are easy stand-ins when we're too lazy to search for the right words.

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