13 Emojis You Didn’t Know We Need

July 17th — National Emoticon Day 📅

Photo by Kerde Severin from Pexels

There are loads of emojis available at our fingertips already. The amount is only going to increase with the demand of inclusivity and diversity of race, sexual orientation, age, and culture. I recommend, and I predict: Apple will release an update to allow streamlined personalization of each emoticon and customizable categorization for each user.

Emojis are frequently used as punctuation in private chat, and in captions on Instagram or Twitter. The period symbol has become quite an abrupt statement in itself. Emojis can be used to convey a message on their own without words. Is there a written language more universal than emojis? Interesting concept to think about.

Here is a list of new emojis we need:

1. Hands that make a heart

The world has united during the pandemic to demand equality, particularly with the black lives matter movement to end all types of racism. There are existing emoticons of hands making a peace sign, thumbs up, handshake, and more. We asked for the middle finger and we got that — so why not two hands that make a heart.

2. Snap

This could be used to signify encouragement of spoken word poetry, sass, or to get someone’s attention…