And a feud has broken out between the serious typographers and the more frivolous bloc who oversee emojis - all over a pile of poo.įollowing a submission for the June 2018 class - a proposed emoji titled “Frowning Pile of Poo” - the consortium erupted into a fierce debate over whether such a poo emoji was really necessary and, more broadly, whether the emoji creation process had become too frivolous and commercialized.Īs Buzzfeed explains, Michael Everson and Andrew West are two typographers who vociferously objected to the latest submission, saying it cheapened the consortium’s image and was damaging to the Unicode academic reputation. It’s a non-profit organization dedicated to standardizing software text worldwide - heavy stuff! As part of that noble goal, the consortium has the weighty task of approving the addition of new emojis, the silly little single-character cartoons we append to our texts. Nicode ConsortiumThe Unicode Consortium is a serious bunch of people with a serious job.

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