Open letter to emoji makers/creators (!?!)

I love an emoji. We’ve all seen the thing on HuffPost about which country uses which one the most (the results make me SO proud to be Canadian), and the research (questionable!) out this morning about how ‘LOL’ ‘WTF’ and other acronyms of text type are being used less and less in favour of the good, new fashioned emoji! 

To be clear, and full disclosure, I don’t have an iPhone. I’m a bit of a tech-phobe – but I have a deep underlying love of an emoji. 

So here’s what I’m thinking we need:

• Pie. We need a pie emoji. Not an English savoury pie – Fruit Pie (not bothered which type…) either a whole one or a slice. We have pie day every year (two I think!) and who doesn’t love pie.
• One more on the baked goods front – a cupcake. Obvs.
• Wood. So a log or something in that vein. The number of picture based messages that having an option for ‘would’ would (ha!) have helped with are countless.
• A WTF face – there isn’t a face that I fell fully gets across the ‘WTF’ that I would like. This is a key factor in my daily conversations so really, a non-negotiable.
• A bottle of wine. Yes there are glasses, but let’s be real…who ever only drinks a glass? And I don’t need help picturing how many glasses I’m actually consuming.
• Eyeroll – there are the big googly eyes, and at a push I’m sure you could get by. But why do I have to type *eye roll* in these technologically advanced times, why is that necessary?!?!?
• A hipster (or something dictating hipster…moustache, black framed glasses etc).
• Crossed fingers – HOW IS THIS NOT A THING YET?!?!?!
• A puking/green faced person. You know when you’re hungover, or something gross has been discussed in the convo and you’re not SARS mask contagious but you feel YUCK! Something for that.
• Shots – or a shot glass. I’m seeing a theme here, booze and baked goods. But seriously for reals. Sometimes everyone just needs a shot.
• Cheese. How do we not have a cheese emoji. Everyone likes cheese (or everyone worth knowing anyway). How am I supposed to invite people to a wine and cheese night through pictorial representation without a cheese emoji.

This might be part one of … a few. Let’s be honest – there is no shortage to the number of emoji variations we should have.

a xxx