157 New Emojis Coming To Your Smartphone Soon, Including Raccoons And Toilet Paper

Love them or hate them, emojis are a big deal. The Emoji Movie, though reviled on Rotten Tomatoes with an 8% rating that coincides with a Metacritic rating of 12%, grossed over $ 200 million on a $ 50 production budget. People use them each and every day to impart their love, hate, joy, sadness, and silliness – the “Pile of Poo” emoji being perhaps the favorite symbol for seven year olds and seventy year olds alike, having been portrayed in The Emoji Movie by the inestimable Sir Patrick Stewart.

Well, phone freaks and textaholics had best get ready for a whole boatload more. The Unicode Consortium, the body responsible for designing new emojis to add to the current roster, has announced that they will be rolling out update Emoji 11.0 in a matter of days, reports Business Insider. 157 new smileys, symbols, icons, and expressions are said to be on the agenda, ranging from a wide-eyed pleading smiley to stands of DNA.

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