‘Frowning Pile of Poo’ Among 67 New Emoji Proposed for 2018

Earlier this week, Unicode President Mark Davis took the wraps off a collection of 67 new Emojis, which his team and their constituents will be entertaining as “draft candidates” for a potential release in the Unicode 11 update slated for sometime in 2018. The revelation emerged courtesy of Emojipedia, who recently held its quarterly Unicode Technical Committee meeting where the 67 Emoji candidates were named. The list will be further whittled down to the final candidates when the Unicode Consortium convenes later this October, and the official additions to the Emoji library will then be revealed at the Consortium’s follow-up meeting sometime during the first-quarter of 2018.

Among the 67 new characters proposed for inclusion in Unicode 11 are a smiling face with three hearts, smiling face with party hat, blue face with icicles, grinning face with OK as eyes, kangaroo, cupcake, llama, bagel, broom, skateboard, softball, smiling face with cape, serious face with eye mask and cape, as well as an inversion of the well-known poo emoji called “frowning pile of poo.”