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Apple released iOS 13.2 earlier today, and the update includes 398 new emoji. There's a bunch of brand-new ones (I love the otter) as well as emoji to represent people with disabilities, gender-neutral emoji (following in Google's footsteps), and a new way to select the skin colors of each individual in the holding hands emoji.
The new batch of emojis also help to normalize menstruation:
For too long, those of us with periods and clitorises have been brutally silenced from talking about our cramps and orgasms by Emoji's lack of yonic and vagina-related emojis. While we gab and gossip freely with eggplant dicks, the best digital icon we currently have to talk about periods and vaginas are the taco (no shade to tacos, it just sounds like a joke a 13-year-old boy would make), and the bloody syringe, which feels unnecessarily gruesome (we're trying to teach kids that periods aren't scary).
This dark time has come to an end. Apple has released iOS 13.2, and the update includes 398 new emoji, including a gorgeous menstrual-red blood drop. [...] The collection also includes a luscious, dignified and highly yonic oyster emoji, replete with a pearly clit, for all your sexting and storytelling needs.
Also at Emojipedia and SFGATE.
Previously: Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:41PM (1 child)
I just had a *COLORED* emoji show up in my xterm the other day while on IRC. The new content is completely wrecking both the standardization on 8x16 and 16x32 font formats, as well as adding color in what needs to be a monochromatic or at worst greyscale standard in order to ensure theming and platform coloring work as expected. The modern emojis fail on all levels of that as well as not adding a lasting method of communicating a concept since even the emoji depictions themselves vary from hostile to 'kiddy safe' making the intent of the message vary by the sender and recievers font settings.
Furthermore, they make text filtering for approved symbols a fucking NIGHTMARE. Either you filter all emojis or you don't filter any, and it already adds a ridiculous number of cycles to any text search, filtering, or lookups thanks to all the new and entirely random content being pushed into the utf-8 specification.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:50PM
They're called "African American" nowadays.