‘Loudly crying’ becomes most popular emoji on Twitter—which is pretty apt for the pandemic It surpassed the ‘laughing crying’ emoji, which is now seen as uncool. Siobhan Ball ...

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The new Unicode 9.0 emoji suite also features new career emojis, in male and female iterations, including astronaut, judge, and rock star. Bacon and a shrug emoji also made the roster.

The Emoji subcommittee says that it received many proposals for new emoji that weren't "well-formed." The authors have been informed of the need to re-submit, so the list can change at any time.