These emojis will have to make room for the new additions coming later this year. TENGKU BAHAR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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G.I. Woe: Mattel's Flushin' Frenzy sends a brown plastic poop flying into the air. It's pictured above at Toy Fair in New York in February 2018. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Stickers designed by Grebet depict a local musician (left), and a woman wearing a traditional head scarf. O'Plerou Grebet hide caption
Kerrilyn Gibson designed prototypes for an Afro hair emoji. Kerrilyn Gibson hide caption
Venmo is used to pay or request money from other people on the app. Every transaction has a memo line, and the app suggests emoji instead of words like "rent," "pizza," and "wine." Amr Alfiky/NPR hide caption
As Payments Go Social With Venmo, They're Changing Personal Relationships
The red drop of blood (left) was designated as an official emoji to symbolize menstruation, among other things, this year. The design at right, submitted in 2017, was not accepted. Unicode; Plan International UK hide caption
Beyoncé performs at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 12. "Instead of me telling someone how good I look, I can just send them a picture of Beyoncé in a queen's outfit," Youth Radio's Robert Fisher says. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
What This Picture Of Beyoncé Tells Us About How Generation Z Connects
On its latest operating system, iOS 10, Apple has replaced its pistol emoji with this icon of a green water gun. Apple hide caption
Facebook's new 'reactions' are getting a lot of... reactions. Facebook hide caption
McCartney's Octopus Moji
The Unicode Consortium announced earlier this month that they are considering 67 new emojis to be released next summer. NPR hide caption
A UK banking services provider says emoji passwords will be easier to remember and safer than numeric or letter-based codes. Intelligent Environments hide caption
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Comedian Aziz Ansari became a pioneer of emoji language use in 2011, when he transcribed the hit Jay-Z and Kanye West song, "Ni**as In Paris." azizisbored.tumblr.com hide caption
As Emojis Spread Beyond Texts, Many Remain [Confounded Face] [Interrobang]
SwiftKey analyzed more than a billion pieces of emoji data, organized by language and country. The poop emoji was most popular in Canada. Unicode/Apple hide caption
Canadians Love Poop, Americans Love Pizza: How Emojis Fare Worldwide
The new emojis on Apple's operating system are racially diverse and they also feature a diverse group of families. courtesy of 9to5mac hide caption
Jonathan Franzen, pictured here at The New Yorker Festival Fiction Night in 2009, won the National Book Award for his third novel, The Corrections. Joe Kohen/Getty Images hide caption