So my friend and I were wondering about how new emojis are born. Turns out you gotta write a proposal and submit it to the Unicode Consortium. I was looking into it and found the proposal for the broccoli emoji (link). It’s just so wholesome:
You gotta justify that the new emoji has multiple uses.
Then again, maybe not so wholesome:
By now, I’m like 5 pages into this proposal and I’m like, “why did someone take the time to write an 8 page document on why we need a broccoli emoji?” Then I saw this:
These guys just really like broccoli.
I look forward to our new healthy vegetable / weed emoji.
Broccoli 4 lyfe
The broccoli fandom is a precious cinnamon roll
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#tbh I still don’t really understand how to emoji but this is #adorable #I went to the link and read the whole proposal #(broccoli stems are fine but I don’t like the florets) #(although it might have been the kind of dislike that goes away with the tongue rewiring at puberty?) #(so it might taste better now I should check) #(spinach definitely tastes a lot better when you use adult sensory receptors to taste it with) #food