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03-01-2018, 07:58 AM
There's currently no interracial couple emoji. Tinder wants to change that.
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Emoji have evolved faster (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32793732/uks-fastest-growing-language-is-emoji) than any other language in history. But, one thing that's lagged behind is the ability to represent everyone.*
One community that's still not represented at all by these tiny glyphs is interracial couples, and Tinder wants to do something about that.*
SEE ALSO: The lobster emoji was anatomically inaccurate so now it's getting fixed (https://mashable.com/2018/02/23/lobster-emoji-legs-unicode/)
The dating app has created a Change.org petition (https://www.change.org/p/unicode-let-s-make-the-interracial-couple-emoji-happen) urging the Unicode Consortium — the organization in charge of our emoji — to create an emoji that represents interracial couples.*
"There's an emoji for everything. Well, almost everything," declares Tinder in a video to accompany its #representlove emoji campaign. "Isn't it time emoji represented all love?"* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/tinder-interracial-couples-emoji/)
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Emoji have evolved faster (http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32793732/uks-fastest-growing-language-is-emoji) than any other language in history. But, one thing that's lagged behind is the ability to represent everyone.*
One community that's still not represented at all by these tiny glyphs is interracial couples, and Tinder wants to do something about that.*
SEE ALSO: The lobster emoji was anatomically inaccurate so now it's getting fixed (https://mashable.com/2018/02/23/lobster-emoji-legs-unicode/)
The dating app has created a Change.org petition (https://www.change.org/p/unicode-let-s-make-the-interracial-couple-emoji-happen) urging the Unicode Consortium — the organization in charge of our emoji — to create an emoji that represents interracial couples.*
"There's an emoji for everything. Well, almost everything," declares Tinder in a video to accompany its #representlove emoji campaign. "Isn't it time emoji represented all love?"* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/tinder-interracial-couples-emoji/)
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