The next time you Instagram your Bondi brunch, you’ll be able to express your love of avocado much more succinctly with the avocado – just one of 72 new additions arriving with Unicode 9.0. As reported by Pedestrian.TV, the Unicode Consortium has approved the following emojis, which include a black love heart for those who didn’t get past the emo phase, a Pinocchio-esque long-nosed face for your mate who’s a fucking liar, and a shaka for when you wanna catch some ~gnarly waves~ with your mates.
Apparently, the process for emoji inclusion is a serious one – it includes thousand-word proposals and various committee meetings with the Unicode Consortium which we would very much like to sit in on.
Other notable additions include a salad, an egg and some Asian cooking-themed emojis that will come in handy when I’m texting my grandmother in Hong Kong. See all the additions below – some may vary in design slightly, but you get the basic idea. We can’t wait to send you all seven million avocados for no reason whatsoever: