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Introducing 37 new emojis, including a taco and unicorn face
Move over, grinning face with smiling eyes. There's 37 new emojis on the block. And this includes the much anticipated taco.
Unicode Consortium will release the emojis Wednesday, according to Emojipedia. The new characters also include a unicorn face, burrito, bottle with popping cork and face with head bandage.
Here's the caveat, according to Quartz.
Being included in the Unicode standard doesn’t guarantee that the emoji will be adopted by Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and other mobile operating systems, which maintain their own emoji character sets, but it’s a good sign. Future updates are likely to include at least some of the new emoji.
That said, Wednesday will be a big day for taco lovers everywhere, especially us Angelenos.
Even this guy knows what's up.
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Cross your fingers that these emojis show up in our smart phones soon and in the meantime, learn about the taco outrage through angry tweets.
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